Tiger Woods' golf game might not be ready for prime time, but his sense of humor remains in midseason form.
As a guest on the episode of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" that aired Thursday, the 14-time major winner dropped several one-liners and discussed a wide range of topics.
Woods said that, at the Ryder Cup earlier this month, he jokingly implied that American golfer Jordan Spieth was still in diapers when Woods won his first Masters in 1997 by a record 12 shots. (Spieth, for the record, was nearly 4 years old that April.)
When talking about what he did while he has been away from the game because of back surgeries, Woods joked that he played the video game "Call of Duty" for eight hours a day with a 30-minute lunch break. When he started to losing to 7-year-olds around the world, that proved humbling.
Woods, who is 40, recalled a story about when he was in college at Stanford, he had a steak dinner with Arnold Palmer and Arnie picked up the tab. Woods was ruled ineligible by the NCAA until he wrote Palmer a check for $25, which Palmer had to cash and fax back to the NCAA for Woods to be reinstated.
Since it's election season, Colbert asked Woods to give his impression of the golf games of U.S. presidents he has teed it up with.
-- George H.W. Bush: "Fast golfer" and "very good." Woods also noted that they can play in under two hours.
-- Bill Clinton: "Lots of cuts," Woods said. When pressed whether Clinton cut the ball (also known as a shot way to the right) or cut corners on the golf course, Woods paused, then, with the deft skill of one of the politicians he was describing, stuck to his original answer. "Cuts," he said with a wry smile.
-- Barack Obama: He hits it "straight [and is] extremely competitive," Woods said. He noted that it's hard to hit it crooked when you hit it, "not longish," which appeared to be Woods' way of saying the sitting president doesn't hit the ball very far.
Colbert concluded the interview by looking at this year's election.
"What about Trump?" Colbert asked.
"You said presidents," Woods replied.