Tiger Woods wasn’t watching as his son, Charlie, hit his tee shot on the par-3 fourth gap on Sunday on the PNC Championship, the annual household workforce occasion.
The published stated he was taking a break when he heard the roar of the gang as his 15-year-old son’s tee shot went in for his first-ever hole-in-one.
Charlie himself was in disbelief as his dad met him for an enormous hug and a playful shove after the wild second the duo will always remember.
“It was a perfect 7-iron so I just kind of hit it. Just 175 [yards], a little down off the left, little cut seven,” Charlie instructed Golf Channel after the hole-in-one.
“It was awesome. I didn’t think it went in. I don’t believe anybody until I go up there and see it.”
On the time, Group Woods was within the lead on the PNC Championship, going down on the Ritz-Carlton Golf Membership in Orlando.
Tiger, 48, had one other again surgical procedure in September, his sixth total, with the hope he might be wholesome sufficient to partake on this weekend’s occasion along with his son and daughter Sam, who’s caddying for her dad for the second straight yr.
“That was one of the reasons why I had the surgery done earlier, so that hopefully I could give myself the best chance to be with Charlie and be able to play,” Woods instructed reporters on Friday. “I’m not competitive right now, but I just want to be able to have the experience again. This has always been one of the bigger highlights of the year for us as a family, and now we get to have that moment together again.”
The highlight on Charlie will proceed to develop as he marches nearer to knowledgeable profession; he didn’t advance out of a neighborhood U.S. Open qualifier in April, ending 61st. The highest 5 finishers in native qualifiers advance to one among 13 36-hole qualifiers.
“I was always reminding him, ‘Just be you.’ Charlie is Charlie,” Tiger stated Friday. “Sure, he’s my son. He’s going to have my final identify, and it’s going to be a part of his core. However I simply need him to be simply himself and be his personal particular person. That’s what we will solely do.
“I always encourage it, for him to carve his own name, carve his own path and have his own journey,” he added. “I think he’s doing a great job. In this day and age where everyone is basically media, with all the phones, being constantly filmed and constantly people watching, that’s just part of his generation, and that’s part of the world that he has to maneuver through.”
Elsewhere on the PNC Championship, Padraig Harrington’s son, Paddy, made his personal hole-in-one on the par-3 eighth.
