Legendary coach Butch Harmon knew Tiger Woods had something special from their very first day working together.Woods began learning from Harmon as a teenager in 1993.Harmon and Woods enjoyed great success togetherGettyDuring their time together, Woods won eight major titles plus 34 PGA Tour events and set himself on the path to becoming one of golf’s greatest ever players.Harmon knew Woods was unique from their first session together.But the iconic coach also had some work to do from shaping a ‘cocky kid’ into what would become a 15-time major winner.Harmon told Golf Digest: “In 1993, he was playing an amateur [event] and Tiger lost his third match and his dad called me and wanted to know if I could watch his son.“I’d never seen him play or knew who he was.“He was a 17-year-old kid, I still have the footage of working with him on that first day.“You could see the raw, natural talent this kid had. It was like polishing an apple, he had a lot of things in his swing that needed cleaning up.“His ability, the speed he had, the confidence he had as a 17-year-old kid, a lot of people would’ve called it cocky, I just call it tremendous confidence.”Harmon says he relished the task of harnessing Woods’ obvious talent while dealing with some of his arrogant traits. He added: “I said to him on that first day – ‘let me ask you a question, when you’re playing under pressure, what is your stock shot?’Woods is a 15-time major winnerGetty“He goes – ‘I just tee it up, hit it as hard as I can and wherever it goes, I go find it’.“I was thinking to myself ‘this is a cocky SOB’.“But the more I got to know him, that was just how he played, he had no fear.“Did I think he was going to turn out to be who he is today? No, I didn’t see that, I just saw a tremendous raw talent.“I took it as a great challenge to become his coach and we went on to have great success together.”Coach Harmon was behind much of Woods’ successGettyThis week is the anniversary of Woods’ last career victory, which came at the 2019 Zozo Championship.Woods equalled Sam Snead’s PGA Tour record of 82 wins in Japan, but the now-50-year-old has not played since the 2024 Open due to injury and more off-the-course issues.Woods did recently return to hitting balls, and there is hope he could make yet another return in 2027.