Tiger Wood’s son boy Charlie Woods shoots 86 in Tour qualifier as he misses chance to join PGA Tour
The PGA Tour will have to wait for the 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods.
In a pre-qualifier on Thursday, Charlie Woods took a 12 on one hole and shot 86.
He didn’t make a birdie at Lost Lake Golf Club, one of four pre-qualifier sites for the Cognizant Classic.
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Charlie, who turned 15 earlier this month, has played the 36-hole PNC Championship with his father the last four years in a scramble format.
Woods played with Olin Browne Jr, who qualified for the US Open last summer in Los Angeles. The son of three-time PGA Tour winner Olin Browne shot 72.
Woods ran into trouble early with a pair of bogeys and a double bogey on the par-five fifth hole. But it was on the seventh, with water down the right side and water behind the green, where the teen’s hopes ended for good. He made a 12.
Woods reached the turn in 47 and had two bogeys and a double bogey on the back for an 86. The leading score when he finished was 65.
The pre-qualifier comes with a $250 entry fee for players with no tour status.
Tiger Woods was 16 and had already had won the first of three straight US Junior Amateur titles when he received a sponsor exemption to play his first PGA Tour event in the Nissan Open at Riviera. He had rounds of 72 and 75 to miss the cut.
His return to the golf course last week after almost a year out through injury also didn’t pan out as planned with the former Masters and PGA champion withdrawing from The Genesis Invitational.
Tiger Woods, whose career has been hampered by multiple injury setbacks and dealt with back spasms in the first round, withdrew after hitting his tee shot at the seventh hole and at one point while being carted back to the clubhouse buried his face in his hands.
“I would like to confirm that I had to withdraw from thegenesisinv due to illness, which we now know is influenza,” the 15-times major winner wrote on social media on Saturday. “I am resting and feeling better.
“Good luck to the players this weekend. I’m disappointed to not be there and want to thank GenesisUSA and all the fans for the support.”
Woods’ longtime business partner Rob McNamara told reporters that Woods woke up that day with a fever, was feeling dizzy during the round and after withdrawing received treatment, including intravenous fluids.
