Golf-Charlie Woods To Compete In Pre-qualifier For PGA Tour Event

Charlie Woods, the son of 15-times main winner Tiger Woods, will compete in a pre-qualifier occasion as he bids to safe a spot within the PGA Tour’s Cognizant Classic subsequent week in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

The 15-year-old Woods will play on Thursday in an 18-hole occasion at Lost Lake Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida, one in all 4 pre-qualifying websites, the PGA Tour web site reported on Wednesday.

Approximately 25 gamers and ties from every of the 4 pre-qualifying websites will advance to a Monday qualifier, from which 4 gamers will earn spots within the Cognizant Classic from Feb. 29-March 3 at PGA National Resort.

Among these within the area for the Cognizant Classic are main winners Rory McIlroy, Shane Lowry, Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose and Gary Woodland.

Woods is scheduled to tee off at 7:39 a.m. ET (1239 GMT) on Thursday alongside Olin Browne Jr. — son of three-times PGA Tour winner Olin Browne — and Ruaidhri Mcgee.

Woods has competed together with his father within the final 4 editions of the PNC Championship — a 36-hole occasion that includes two-player groups made up of a serious champion and a member of the family — and completed runner-up in 2021.

Tiger Woods, who entered the yr aiming to play one occasion a month, withdrew throughout the second spherical of final week’s Genesis Invitational at Riviera because of the flu, which introduced an abrupt finish to his first PGA Tour begin since final April’s Masters.

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