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Tiger Woods’ 15-year-old son Charlie allowed his father to roll back the years after he celebrated his first hole-in-one at this year’s PNC championship.
The pair entered the final round as joint leaders in the competition which allows professionals to play alongside their children or parents and was left celebrating on the fourth hole.
Woods Jr teed it up on the 174-yard par 3 and hit a shot even Tiger in his prime would have been proud of with the commentator even calling it a “great looking shot” as it flew up into the air before bouncing twice and rolling in the hole.
However, the youngster was unaware of his achievement and was confused when the crowd’s roars made their way back down to the tee. “Is it in?,” he finally asked before being told and running into his father’s arms to celebrate.
Woods’ then playfully pushed his son to go and take the plaudits from their playing partners Bernd Langer and his son Jason who met him with high-fives. When asked how many aces he had, Charlie then replied with a huge smile: “It is my first one! What a way to do it. That’s awesome.”
However, Charlie will have the luxury of sharing the huge bar tab after the round as Padraig Harrington’s son Paddy also made a hole-in-one on the par three 8th hole.
Woods, a fifteen-time major winner, underwent back surgery in September – the sixth on his lower back in the last 10 years – and scheduled that surgery to be sure he recovered in time to play with his son for the fifth straight year at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida.
His daughter, Sam, caddied for her father for the second straight year. Their mother, Elin, was among those in the gallery in a tournament that is all about family.
“We’re trying to pull off each and every shot for each other, and to ham-and-egg,” Woods said after the first round. “And I think we did that great pretty much the entire day. We picked each other up, which was great. And Charlie made pretty much most of the putts today.”
Charlie Woods qualified for his first U.S. Junior Amateur, making it to Oakland Hills but not staying very long. He shot rounds of 82-80 and didn’t make it to match play. He also fell short in Monday qualifying for the Cognizant Classic on the PGA Tour and U.S. Open qualifying.
But he said the U.S. Juniors was his biggest learning moment.
“It’s about focusing on my playing,” Charlie said. “I was so focused on winning and how I played that it kind of crept into how am I going to win instead of how I’m going to play the shot. And it kind of built up and that caused two very, very bad rounds of golf. But live and learn.”
The PNC Championship is for players who won a major or The Players Championship and a family member. Annika Sorenstam is playing with her son, while Nelly Korda is playing with her father. Steve Stricker — winner of seven senior majors — is playing with daughter Izzy, a freshman at Wisconsin.
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