The amount of habits and mannerisms that seem to have transferred from Tiger Woods to his son Charlie is truly uncanny.
Charlie Woods is generating quite a bit of buzz for how similar he is to his father.
As Charlie gets older they seem to be getting much closer together with the younger Woods already generating a lot of speed with the club.
They will be in action together at the PNC Championship.
Check out this video which shows just how alike the father and son are.
This week, Woods Jr will play from the 6,500-yard tees at Orlando’s Ritz Carlton Golf Club, which will also used by John Daly, Nelly Korda, Vijay Singh, and Retief Goosen.
The 14-year-old will most certainly be hitting the ball considerably farther than last year’s PNC Championship, and while data on his driving distance isn’t freely available, pundits who have seen him up close put it between 250-270 yards, given that John Daly has averaged 282 yards this year and Nelly Korda has averaged 269 yards.
“For the @PNCchampionship Charlie Woods will be moving back a tee from last year,” the Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
“He will be playing the same tee as John Daly, Jim Furyk, Retief Goosen, Nelly Korda and Vijay Singh at 6,578 yds. @TigerWoods, aka Dad will play the tips at 7,106 yds.”
Charlie played from the tees reserved for pros aged 65-72 in last year’s PNC Championship, with Bernhard Langer, Mark O’Meara, Nick Price, and Nick Faldo. Annika Sorenstam, Justin Thomas’ father, Nelly Korda’s father Petr, and Matt Kuchar’s son Carson all off the same tees.
Gary Player, Lee Trevino, and Annika Sorenstam’s 11-year-old son, Will McGee, were the three players who used the most forward tees.
This week, all male PGA Tour players will be off the backs, measuring in excess of 7,100 yards, including Tiger Woods, who will be making his second appearance after undergoing ankle surgery in April.
“I haven’t done it in a while, I haven’t done it with my ankle the way it is now and I was excited each and every day to kind of get through it and kind of start piecing rounds together again,” Woods said after the Hero World Challenge final round.
“I haven’t done this in a long time so it was fun to feel that again. Every day I got faster into the round. The first day took me a while to get a handle on it, second day was faster, today was right away.
“And that’s eventually, when I play on a regular basis, that’s normally how it is. It takes me usually during warmup before I get a feel for the round. To be honest, that first day took me a while.”
