Philadelphia, PA …
Call it the ‘Playing Alongside Tiger Woods Factor’.
Aussie golfer Marc Leishman, and this week’s defending BMW Championship champion, revealed he is now finding it difficult not to go anywhere without being noticed.
And this, he says, is all down to having played lot of golf this year alongside Woods.
Indeed, Leishman responded to a Tweet put out by @tourmiss at the start of last week’s Dell Technologies Championship confirming the number of occasions the current World No. 21 has played in Woods’ company in 2018.
Marc LeishmanVerified account @marcleish
Masters, quicken loans, northern trust & dell for the first 2 rounds. Plus round 3 at Bridgestone. We’ll run out of stuff to talk about pretty soon 
I don’t think I’m missing any?
It was a question earlier today in Marc’s press conference about recognition that prompted this writer to ask Marc: “Can you go down to the local supermarket or the local hardware store and not be recognized?
MARC LEISHMAN: “Oh, not — not really. I mean but it’s not like people rude or anything. People are really friendly and they know that I’m nice and if they want photos or whatever I’ll do it.
“But, yeah, in the last — particularly since I’ve been playing with Tiger so much, I’ve been getting noticed more but I guess it’s, you know, it’s part of what I do.
“If you’re successful at this job, which I have been for the last couple of years, luckily, you know, that comes along with it and I enjoy it. It’s good especially when kids come up to you and they’re so excited to see it.
“You can make their day very easily and I love doing that.”
And as a follow-up I asked Marc what was some of the questions they would ask him about playing with Tiger?
Leishman responded: “It’s mostly about the crowds, you know, how the crowds are. Most of the time I would answer that you can’t really see a lot of the crowd. Once it gets beyond about two deep you don’t know if it’s three deep or 20 deep.
“But, yeah, I mean ask what we talk about and just general questions. You know, I give mostly a vague answer to most of the time but most of the time they just come up and sort of they’re happy to see you, shake your hand and leave.
“So, like I say, with kids when you can see the look on their face and see the look on their parents’ face when they come up to you, that’s a really cool part of my job.”
