This weekend’s PNC Championship has a predominant event, and I’m undecided 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 12 months when he almost birdied his manner to chasing down John Daly and his son for the victory. After a 12 months of enchancment and a golf swing that’s about nearly as good because it will get for an adolescent, he’ll be the principle event in 2022.
Humorously, there’s some controversy (in order for you to name it that) over what tee packing containers Charlie will play. In an event that options an 11-year-old and an 87-year-old, there are all kinds of tee packing containers to be performed. Charlie was reportedly going to play the second-longest tee packing containers initially, however the match committee bumped him to the third-longest, in accordance to 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’m undecided the second-longest tees (round 6,700 yards) would have been a difficulty. The youthful Woods will seemingly dominate from 6,400 yards.
Despite Tiger enjoying in simply his fifth event of 2022, his son is the speak of the match even amongst different opponents.
“Anybody we play with will be a treat and will be a thrill,” mentioned Jordan Spieth’s dad, Shawn, on Thursday. “Is Charlie carrying it 260 or 290? Everybody wants to know which one it is, so that will be fun, or more, after the last two weeks.”
“Charlie,” responded Padraig Harrington when requested which Woods he was extra concerned about seeing swing. From PNC transcripts:
“Actually, to be honest, definitely Charlie, Charlie, Charlie. But kind of just strange enough, after watching Tiger in The Match, to me, with a bit more speed and a bit more of that, like, you never doubt Tiger’s mental ability, and it’s always one where is he able to come back, and you don’t want to give up — like he looked better physically at that match and the speed.
“And you realize me, clearly, I’m concerned about that stuff. You know, you’d by no means run Tiger off, however I truly suppose he could be even higher than that — in a greater place than I had thought. So I’ll take a bit sneaky take a look at Tiger, little doubt. But Charlie, to be trustworthy, I’m extra concerned about Charlie.
“It’s very interesting for a 13-year-old. And he did it when he was 11. It’s hard to support the angles in a golf swing when you don’t have — at 11, he could hold the club at the right position. Like most kids who are good at 11, 12, 13 years of age, their swing hasn’t even come close to developing.
“Like I guess you if you happen to went again and checked out Rory at 12 years of age, he was hitting an enormous crazy, you realize, drop kicking. Because that is what they do, children. But Charlie has all the time managed to stress the golf ball, which is phenomenal at that age. It actually is. So, yeah, I’d be taking a look at and searching on the swing to see how it’s.”
Just 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 — might be an enchanting 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 very best to ever do it and any probability to see him within the twilight of his extraordinary profession is all the time fairly a present.