Tiger shares inspirational moment with man battling lung cancer

Tiger Woods isn’t too busy during Masters week to pass up doing a good deed.

After warming up on the driving range prior to Thursday’s opening round, Woods briefly visited with wheelchair-bound Shane Caldwell, a 52-year-old man fighting stage 4 lung cancer.

The meeting began with the famous Tiger Woods smile and this greeting: “Are you Shane?”

Woods and Caldwell briefly chatted and Woods signed his golf glove and handed it to Caldwell. Woods wished Caldwell the best moving forward.

“It was pretty emotional,” Caldwell told the Amarillo Globe-News.

An avid golfer before becoming ill, it has long been the dream of the Columbia, S.C., resident to meet Woods. And his stepdaughter, Jordan Miller, put the possibility into action by working social media and word eventually made it to the Tiger Woods Foundation, which got in touch with Miller and set up Thursday’s meeting.

“She wanted to do everything she could for her stepdad to meet Tiger Woods,” Renay Caldwell, wife of Shane, told the Globe-News. “She sent out tweets and she hounded everybody under God’s creation. She is a full-time student and mother. She has spent every waking minute trying to get people to respond, tweeting ESPN and even one the of the Bachelors.”

Miller’s efforts paid off — she termed the idea as “a crazy dream” — and that left her stepfather with a stellar day to remember.

Not to mention scoring a pretty good memento with the golf club, one that contained an inspirational message:

“Stay strong!!

Tiger Woods”

–Field Level Media