Charlie Woods hits a shot on Saturday on the 2nd hole at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club as Tiger Woods looks on.
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Charlie Woods, in one of the lighter moments of Saturday’s first round of the PNC Championship, saw his dad hit his tee shot on the par-3 4th into a right greenside bunker, then shrugged his shoulders and sighed. He’d have to carry, ahem, Tiger Woods again.
And he would do so with 39 extra yards.
Charlie Woods and Karl Stenson, the other player under the age of 13 in the parent-child scramble event, are not playing from the tips at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club. Instead, they’ll watch their famous fathers hit, then walk ahead 1,070 yards over the course of the round.
Notably, there are four sets of tees. The pros are playing from the 7,106-yard “red” tees; the 6,576-yard “white” tees are being used by pros and family members ages 55–73, Nelly Korda and family members ages 14 and 15; the 6,036-yard reds are for Charlie Woods and Karl Stenson; and the 5,499-yard “blue” tees are for Lee Trevino and Gary Player, the pros who are over 73.
Notably, too, according to dad, are that Charlie’s reds have been moved up from a year ago, when the now-12-year-old made his PNC debut.
“We don’t have quite the same advantages that we had last year,” Tiger Woods said.
Below is a look at Charlie’s tees and Tiger’s tees:
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