Tiger Woods wasn't there to watch his son Charlie hit his tee shot on the par-3 fourth hole Sunday at the PNC Championship, an annual family team event.
The broadcaster said he was taking a break when he heard the roar of the crowd when his 15-year-old son's tee shot made his first hole-in-one.
Charlie himself looked in disbelief as his dad greeted him with a big hug and a playful shove after a wild moment the pair will never forget.
“It was a perfect 7-iron, so I was able to hit it with just 175. [yards]it was a little bit off the left and kind of a cut 7,” Charlie told Golf Channel after his hole-in-one.
“It was awesome. I didn't think I was going in. Nobody believes it until they go there and see it.”
At the time, Team Woods was leading the PNC Championship at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando.
The 48-year-old Tiger underwent another hip surgery in September, his sixth in total, but is healthy enough to participate in this weekend's event with son and daughter Sam, who will be caddying for his father for the second year in a row. I wanted to be.
“That's one of the reasons I had surgery early, I wanted to give myself the best chance to be with Charlie and play,” Woods told reporters Friday. . “I'm not competitive right now, but I'm looking forward to getting the experience again. This has always been one of the biggest highlights of the year for our family, and now we're able to have that moment together again.” Ta.”
Charlie will continue to receive more attention as he approaches his professional career. He was eliminated in his local US Open qualifying round in April, finishing 61st. The top five regional qualifiers will advance to one of 13 36-hole qualifiers.
“I always told him, ‘Just be yourself.’ Charlie is Charlie,” Tiger said Friday. “Yes, he is my son. He will have my last name and that will be part of his core. But I want him to just be who he is and be his own person. That's what only we can do.
“I always encourage him to carve his own name, carve his own path and take his own journey,” he added. “I think he's doing a great job. In this day and age where basically everyone is media and has every phone and is always being filmed and people are always watching, that's part of his generation. It's just a part of the world that he has to overcome.”
Elsewhere at the PNC Championship, Padraig Harrington's son Paddy hit a hole-in-one on the par-3 eighth.
