"I never tire of hearing these stories because they are always better than what I imagined."

Jill Painter shares an impressive story about the positive role Tiger's foundation is playing, profiling UCLA pre-med student Stephen Pham, an Earl Woods scholar who has started an outreach group offering medical aid to Vietnam's less fortunate.

Pham recently learned that Woods, who is hosting the Chevron World Challenge this week at Sherwood Country Club in Thousand Oaks, read his essay and was speechless.

Not everyone, however, can be saved. Pham and his team gathered enough money to send a dying man from a remote area on a bus ride to the hospital. The group learned the man died en route.

"We were so close. If we had just had little more time, but time is life," said Pham, who held back tears. "This is what medicine is.

"There's a face to it."