His father, Tiger Woods, was one of the most renowned teenage golfers in history. Charlie Woods is already adding to his junior trophy cabinet.
The 14-year-old was a member of the Benjamin School boys team that won the Florida High School Athletic Association Class A state championship on Wednesday, giving the Palm Beach school its fourth crown.
Freshman Woods had rounds of 78 and 76 at Mission Inn Resort and Club in Howey-In-The-Hills, Florida, to finish fourth on his five-man team, all while his father Tiger, dressed in black, stood nearby.
He ended tied for 26th in the individual standings as the Benjamin School Buccaneers won by a single stroke.
Woods, 47, caddied for his son when he won his Junior National Golf Championship qualifying in Orlando in September but had to settle for a spectator’s seat this time.
The 15-time major champion never won a state championship, although there is one caveat to his son’s bragging rights: his father never had the chance to win one. During Woods’ tenure at Western High School in Anaheim, California, the California Interscholastic Federation did not hold the competition.
It didn’t make much of a dent in his résumé. Woods won the US Junior Amateur as a 15-year-old student at the school in 1991, and he went on to three-peat the title.
Within a year after becoming pro in August 1996, he had won three PGA Tour events, became the youngest champion of The Masters at 21 years old, and became the fastest player to reach No. 1 in the world after turning pro.
Today, Woods is ranked 1307 in the world, with his most recent competitive participation, a third-round withdrawal from The Masters in April, being the most recent of the very handful he has made since suffering severe leg injuries in a horrific automobile accident in 2021.
However, in January, he will compete in The TGL, a televised indoor golf league organised by TMRW Sports, a firm Woods co-founded with Rory McIlroy.
