Charles Barkley must really miss Tiger Woods.
Six months after Barkley said on a Philadelphia radio station that he and the golfing great no longer are friends, he still talked with a sadness that the relationship is over in an interview with Campus Insiders, GolfChannel.com reported.
"I'm a Tiger Woods fan," Barkley said during the interview with Seth Davis. "I have not talked to Tiger since the accident (in November of 2009, which led to the revelation of Woods' extra-marital affairs while he was married to Elin Nordegren). He went in a different direction. I'm not upset by that, (but) I'm disappointed. ...
"I understand that situation; I'm disappointed. But that was a thing in his life. He has to handle that how he handled it. I try not to ever be a Monday morning quarterback. That night changed his life forever. He chose to handle that, to just sever his friends and I have to accept that."
Charles Barkley says Tiger Woods "wasn't a very sociable guy"
Barkley has calmed down from previous comments about being jilted by Woods.
"You think you're friends with a guy, you talk to him once a week for 15 years, and you're like, This dude is my friend. We do things. We have fun together," Barkley said in 2011, according to GolfChannel.com. "I haven't talked to him in two years and I'm wondering what the hell is going on."
Then in July of 2014, Barkley partially blamed Woods' fixation on breaking Jack Nicklaus' record for distancing himself from the rest of society.
"Well I think that when you're as great as he has been, and this probably is a negative at some point, like he was so consumed with being the greatest golfer ever, he wasn't a very sociable guy. Even when he was a friend of mine, he wasn't a very sociable guy. He just had a one-track mind. He just wanted to break Jack Nicklaus' record.
Barkley later added: "Golf is just a game. Your life don't suck. ... But I think when you put yourself in that situation where your whole life revolves around how you're doing on a golf course, you're gonna develop a negative attitude to a certain degree, instead of saying, 'I've actually got it pretty good.' It's like people who say I never won a championship. I understand that. I accept that. But it ain't like I'm sitting around saying, 'Oh my God, my life sucks. This is so miserable.' "
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