It’s nothing like Tiger Woods getting his 83rd PGA Tour win to become the sport’s all-time victory leader, but to capture a first title with his son Charlie in any golf arena would easily be among his lifetime highlights, and the Woodses have a chance to make that happen on Sunday.
Eight years after Tiger Woods gave Min Woo Lee a private lesson at the Sage Valley Invitational amateur event in South Carolina, the pair played a practice round on Tuesday at the 124th US Open at Pinehurst No.2.
There are 84 players in the field at the Legacy Golf & Tennis Club, with five expected to advance. It’s Charlie Woods’ first time attempting US Open qualifying.
The younger Woods is playing in one of four pre-qualifiers for the event. Approximately 25 players and ties will advance to Monday’s qualifier. There, four spots will be available into the PGA Tour event, which starts next Thursday.
The last time Sam Woods was in the spotlight came last year when she inducted her father into the World Golf Hall of Fame prior to the Players Championship.
The golf world hasn’t seen much from Tiger Woods as he works his way back from his ankle surgery in April, but Rory McIlroy has still heard plenty from the 15-time major champ during that time. The friends and business partners have grown closer in recent years, but Rory revealed some interesting details in an Read more…
After a week of crazy (potential) merger news, Golf Twitter is back to focusing on actual golf this week. And its eye is squarely on Los Angeles. It just wandered, momentarily, to a different LA course on Wednesday.
At the PNC Championship last week, there was a group of some of the most successful players in the game who loved golf themselves and who had fostered a love of the game in their child.
Tiger Woods and son Charlie followed a 13-under 59 on Saturday with a seven-under 65 on Sunday, their 20-under total leaving them six back of eventual winners, Vijay Singh and his son, Qass. For Team Woods, the event became about other things: The bonding experience between father and son, and their family friends on Team Thomas.
Vijay and Qass Singhs’ 26-under 118 total at the PNC Championship—accomplished by becoming the first team to shoot back-to-back sub-60 rounds in the 25th playing of the event—allowed them to hold off another comeback challenge from John Daly and his son John II, the defending champs, who shot a closing 59 to finish two shots short.
For every child whose enjoyment of the sport is enhanced by the spark of competition is one whose passion is crushed by the pressure applied by his or her parents.
Australian Golf Digest
