How Trey Wingo’s lunch with Tiger led to the clash with MJ

In a 23-year career with ESPN, Trey Wingo he has had his clashes with the sports elite.

But as he told GOLF’s Subpar co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz on this week’s episode of the podcast, it was a day that was unmatched for star power.

Wingo began by explaining that many of his attacks involved his former colleague at ESPN, the late Stuart Scottbecause “Stuart knew everybody.”

At the 2003 NBA All-Star Game, Wingo was staying at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Atlanta when he received a text from Scott.

“Hey, get off,” the text read. “I’m having lunch with someone you might want to hang out with.”

That person was none other than Tiger Woods.

“(I) go to a little restaurant, in the back booth, there’s Stuart and I come back, there’s Tiger having lunch with Stuart,” Wingo said. “I’m like the greatest – From the moment Tiger came on the stage, I thought this guy just got it. I have a whole file on my computer of all the stuff on the awards and all the tournaments he won, all 82 of them. I like to walk away.

I’m like, ‘Oh, hey.’

“Tiger looks up and goes, ‘Hey, Trey.'”

Wingo was like all of us. He lost all memory of how to act.

Woods was only able to hang around for about 20 minutes and Scott left soon after. So Wingo did what any of us would have done in that situation: he ran to call his father.

“I’m getting ready to call the old rotary phone and the elevator opens at the Ritz in Atlanta,” Wingo said. “Like an idiot, instead of waiting, I just go in because I’m not thinking straight. I want to tell my dad, I just had lunch with Tiger Woods. This is amazing.

“So the elevator opens — it’s NBA All-Star weekend — and I just walk in and into this wall of a human being. And it’s as strong as it gets. And I look up and he says, ‘Wingo, look where you’re going.’

it Was Michael Jordan.

“I’m like, ‘Michael, sorry, this is for me.’ It’s bad for me.’ So I left lunch with Tiger and texted and ran into Michael Jordan,” he said. “Tiger and MJ in the span of 15 minutes. And I was like, yeah, I could die today.”

For more from Wingo, including the story of the golf slip that nearly ruined his career, listen full episode of Subpar hereor see below.

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