GOLFING superstar Tiger Woods has given courageous Hampshire teenager Adam Vaughan a new lease of life. The golf-mad youngster, who suffers from the incurable lung disease cystic fibrosis, has just returned from a dream trip to America to meet his sporting hero.

Adam, 15, enjoyed a two-hour golf lesson with Tiger. The Vaughans also joined the Woods family at San Francisco's Planet Hollywood restaurant for a fundraising dinner.

Mum Sue, of Botley Road, Sholing, said: "It was just amazing. Tiger Woods and his family are brilliant people.

"They made us feel as if they had known us for ever.

"Adam has been quite poorly this year and knowing that he was going to meet Tiger Woods has really made him determined to come through."

Adam's aunt nominated him to the Make a Wish charity which provides once-in-a-lifetime experiences for terminally ill children.

The Weston Park Boys School pupil became hooked on golf three years ago. Since then Southampton Municipal Golf Club has become his second home. "The people up there are great and he just likes being around the place," said Sue.

"Some days he may get around the full course, on others he needs a golf buggy. He really loves it."

Adam works in the Bassett club shop each Saturday and fellow golfers, inspired by the teenager's courage, have helped raise thousands for child cystic fibrosis sufferers.

After his dream American trip Adam spent three weeks in Southampton General where he got to show off his golfing skills on national television.

The brave youngster starred in several episodes of the BBC's popular daytime programme City Hospital. Now home, Sue believes his meeting with Tiger Woods will help get through his daily battle against the incurable disease.

She added: "At this stage of his illness we just take one day at a time.

"But the day spent with Tiger Woods is a high which hopefully Adam will live on for quite a while."

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