Andrea Wieland Digs Up a Touching Tale About Tiger Woods — All Thanks to a Cereal Box
Tiger Woods: Golf is always on the lookout for the next generation of inquiring minds to follow in the footsteps of Amanda Ballionis, Amy Rogers, Cara Banks and Beth Ann Nichols as golf’s best female interviewers. But we’ll leave it to you to determine if Andrea Wieland passed her audition last week when the uber-successful UW-Whitewater women’s golf coach got one question during an audience with Tiger Woods.
First, some background: Wieland was in Dallas with son Kade and his friend/caddie Luke Weiss of Middleton for the U.S. Junior Amateur Championship at Trinity Forest Golf Club. The week before leaving for The Big D, the Wielands learned that Kade would be playing in the group in front of Charlie Woods, the 16-year-old son of golf’s 15-time major championship winner.
Kade Wieland, one of four Wisconsin golfers in the field, shot 80-77 and missed qualifying for the match-play portion of the week by 13 strokes. His mom walked every step of the 36 holes and, from time-to-time, her path crossed with Tiger Woods and Charlie’s mom, Elin Nordegren on a pair of sweltering days with temperatures topping out at 97 degrees and the heat indices reaching 105 on Day 2 of the competition, which made for some, um, smelly spectators.
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Apparently, according to Andrea Wieland, not all of them (you can guess where this is going).
“It was so hot down there,” she wrote in a text to Wisconsin.Golf. “And sweaty. Hotter than (Wisconsin) when it’s a 100-degree heat index. So the second hole (actually No. 11 at Brook Hollow GC, used to handle the 264 golfers competing for the 64 match-play berths) is where Tiger walked near me for the first time. And there were plenty of stinky people down there so I did notice that somebody in his group smelled really good.
wasn’t until probably the third or fourth time that I saw him that it was actually him that smelled really good. Then maybe on the seventh or eighth hole (downwind, there was quite a breeze), I realized it was definitely Tiger.”
With that, Andrea Wieland made it her mission to learn what Tiger Woods was wearing to make him stand out – in a good way – in the Texas humidity. The mother of two young golfers (oldest son Brett is a rising sophomore at UW-Green Bay), Wieland told of the trend among teenage boys, perhaps inspired by what they see on TikTok, in which they shop online for fragrances “to smell good for their own body type,” especially junior golfers in the literal heat of competition. She phoned a friend, described by Wieland as “a bit of a fragrance snob,” and told her Woods’ scent “smelled like cologne, but finished a little sweeter, almost like a fruit” as he walked by.
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Fast-forward to Day 2. Kade Wieland, at 6-foot-2, 235 pounds and still a growing 16-year-old boy, gobbled up the last of the cereal in their Airbnb (even though players could eat free at the course). That left nothing for Weiss, so Andrea Wieland said she’d pick up the tab at the course in the players’ lounge, which is where they found Tiger Woods relaxing ahead of Charlie’s late-morning tee time at Trinity Forest, again in the group behind Kade Wieland.
Now, Andrea Wieland could have done Wisconsin golf fans a favor and asked him the question on everyone’s mind: Will Tiger (who turns 50 in December) pair with Madison’s Steve Stricker next June at the American Family Insurance Championship at TPC Wisconsin in Madison?
