Friday can be a big day in Charlie Woods’ golf journey. Woods, the 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods, enters the day tied for second place on the Junior PGA Championship after he shot a 6-under 66 for a second consecutive spherical on Thursday.
Together with being in placing distance to win the Junior PGA Championship, Woods can also be making an attempt to make his first U.S. Junior Ryder Cup crew because the winner and runner-up will every be assured a spot on the crew.
Woods is at present at 12-under 202 coming into the ultimate spherical on the Ackerman-Allen Course in West Lafayette, Indiana. He’ll start Friday’s spherical at 10:06 a.m. and be flanked by chief Lunden Esterline (-19) and Pennson Badgett (-12).
Charlie Woods, son of Tiger Woods, wins playoff to return to U.S. Junior Amateur
Cody Nagel
“My spherical was fairly up and down and it gave me a coronary heart assault on the market,” Woods stated of his third spherical via the Lafayette Journal & Courier. “However 9 birdies is fairly good. A few three putts, I made a number of errors at the moment however total fairly strong spherical. Fairly good place going into tomorrow.”
Woods, who’s twentieth within the football American Junior Golf Affiliation rankings, exhibited a few of his dad’s legendary focus after his tee time was delayed on Thursday for 2 hours as a consequence of climate. Unfazed, Woods birdied the primary gap and would proceed to play strong golf all through the spherical. He completed his spherical the way in which he began it: with a birdie that was arrange by an strategy shot that landed 5 toes from the outlet.
A Palm Seaside, Florida, native, Woods captured the AJGA’s Team TaylorMade Invitational in May. Final December, he made his first career hole-in-one whereas taking part in alongside his father within the PNC Championship.
The duo of Tiger and Charlie Woods completed runner-up within the occasion to Bernard and Jason Langer after Bernard hit an 18-foot eagle putt in a playoff. The youthful Woods, who’s coming into his junior 12 months of highschool, qualified to compete in the U.S. Junior Amateur however missed the reduce.