Tiger Cub Charlie Again Roars As Team Woods Snare Seventh At PNC.

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Young Charlie Woods again stole the shot in brilliantly upstaging his 15-time Major-winning father for a second time as father-and-son sharing seventh place at the PNC Championship in Orlando.

The 11-year-old Tiger cub was competing in a first 18-hole ‘public’ tournament and in a first PGA Tour sanctioned event on the Ritz Carlton layout.

And didn’t the son of the 82-time PGA Tour winning Woods impress not only swinging like dad but all the time producing the trademark Tiger fist pumps.

Team Woods, and dressed in matching red shirts for Sunday’s final day, went into the round a combined 10-under and four shots off the lead and eventually finished with a second straight combined 10-under par 62 for a combined 20-under tally.

Woods said: “I don’t think words can describe how Charlie and I were able to have this experience together.

“It’s memories for a lifetime”.

Charlie was the only player in the 20-team two-play event to eagle the par-5 third hole during Saturday’s round and an @PGA Tour tweet that at event’s end had already generated 8m views.

And was schoolboy Charlie that got the team off to a great second day start with a birdie at the same hole in the better-ball last day format.

And just like his soon-to-be 45-year-old father, there was a great fist pump from young Charlie when the putt had just enough legs to drop.

Team Woods eagled the par-5 fifth hole to move to a combined 13-under and then stormed home on the back of a second eagle of the round at the par-5 14th when young Charlie, and hitting off the ‘Charlie Tees’ and some 140-yards ahead of the back tees, clearly all the trouble to leave his father as short wedge and putt for a ‘3’.

Woods and son grabbed five inward half birdies and with Charlie obliging by retrieving the ball from the cup each time his father putted out before ending, and how they had started a day earlier, with a birdie for a second straight combined 62 for a 20-under total.

Woods added:  “I’m just proud of what he’s done as he played well this week and what we did as a team.

“Just like at the Medalist, stay in your own world, enjoy. Our little world, we kept it as that. It was special for both of us.

“It was pure golf and when it came down to it, it was just he and I.  We got into a our little world and we did that. And to have ‘Big Joe’ (Joe LaCava – caddy) and ‘Little Joe’ (LaCava’s son) on the bag, it just kept in our little world exactly how we planned it.

“Charlie’s  not going to appreciate this at 11 years old. As the years go by, you start appreciating it more. I’m sure that we’ll have a lot of banter over the holidays and the years to come.”

Team Thomas of Justin and his 61-year-old father, Mike won the £stg 802,000 by two shots with a combined 25-under par over the two days.

Team Harrington brought up the tail of the field with Europe’s Ryder Cup captain and son, Paddy posting a closing combined round 66 for a lowly nine-under par 36-hole tally.

The Harrington’s began Saturday to be three-over after just two holes but to their credit did not drop a shot over the next 34-holes.

 



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