This weekend’s PNC Championship has a foremost occasion, and I am unsure his title is Tiger, Jordan or Justin. No, the individual everyone seems to be clamoring to see play golf in Orlando within the pro-am is Charlie Woods. Tiger’s son received the day final yr when he practically birdied his option to chasing down John Daly and his son for the victory. After a yr of enchancment and a golf swing that’s about nearly as good because it will get for an adolescent, he’ll be the principle occasion in 2022.
Humorously, there may be some controversy (if you wish to name it that) over what tee bins Charlie will play. In an occasion that options an 11-year-old and an 87-year-old, there are all kinds of tee bins to be performed. Charlie was reportedly going to play the second-longest tee bins initially, however the match committee bumped him to the third-longest, in line with Golf Channel. The course is predicted to mess around 6,400 yards from the place he’ll tee off.
Tiger admitted final week that Charlie lately out-drove him, so I am unsure the second-longest tees (round 6,700 yards) would have been a difficulty. The youthful Woods will possible dominate from 6,400 yards.
Regardless of Tiger taking part in in simply his fifth occasion of 2022, his son is the discuss of the match even amongst different opponents.
“Anyone we play with will probably be a deal with and will probably be a thrill,” stated Jordan Spieth’s dad, Shawn, on Thursday. “Is Charlie carrying it 260 or 290? Everyone desires to know which one it’s, so that will probably be enjoyable, or extra, after the final two weeks.”
“Charlie,” responded Padraig Harrington when requested which Woods he was extra taken with seeing swing. From PNC transcripts:
“Really, to be trustworthy, undoubtedly Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. However type of simply unusual sufficient, after watching Tiger in The Match, to me, with a bit extra velocity and a bit extra of that, like, you by no means doubt Tiger’s psychological capability, and it is at all times one the place is he in a position to come again, and you do not need to surrender — like he appeared higher bodily at that match and the velocity.
“And you realize me, clearly, I am taken with that stuff. You know, you’d by no means run Tiger off, however I truly suppose he is likely to be even higher than that — in a greater place than I had thought. So I’ll take a bit of sneaky take a look at Tiger, little doubt. However Charlie, to be trustworthy, I am extra taken with Charlie.
“It is very fascinating for a 13-year-old. And he did it when he was 11. It is exhausting to assist the angles in a golf swing when you do not have — at 11, he might maintain the membership on the proper place. Like most children who’re good at 11, 12, 13 years of age, their swing hasn’t even come near creating.
“Like I guess you should you went again and checked out Rory at 12 years of age, he was hitting an enormous crazy, you realize, drop kicking. As a result of that is what they do, children. However Charlie has at all times managed to stress the golf ball, which is outstanding at that age. It truly is. So, yeah, I would be taking a look at and looking out on the swing to see how it’s.”
Only a three-time main champion trying ahead to seeing the swing. No stress or something.
Regardless, the Charlie-Tiger pairing — which is among the many favorites to win the PNC at 5-1 — will probably be a captivating watch on each accounts. Charlie, as a result of he is Tiger’s son and clearly gifted at golf, and Tiger, as a result of he is the most effective to ever do it and any probability to see him within the twilight of his extraordinary profession is at all times fairly a present.
