The Golf Icon Tiger Woods Felt Shocked as Son Charlie Woods Faces a Disastrous Start at Prestigious Tournament
Tiger Woods has been spotted on the grounds of Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, Texas, as his son, Charlie, risks missing the cut at the prestigious U.S. Junior Amateur following a nightmare first round.
The golf icon, who is dating Vanessa Trump, has failed to grace the greens since missing the cut himself at last summer’s Open Championship in Scotland as he continues to battle various setbacks, most recently falling foul to a ruptured tendon in his left Achilles that effectively ruled him out for the entirety of the 2025 PGA Tour.
Instead, he has been making the most of his time by supporting his 16-year-old son, who has already this year won the Team TaylorMade Invitational in May and placed sixth in a field of 122 boys golfers at last month’s Nicklaus Junior Championship.
A successful playoff in Florida in June also secured his place at this week’s U.S Junior Amateur Championship, yet things haven’t quite gone to plan for Woods Jr., who risks repeating history from last year.
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In the same tournament 12 months ago, the teenager finished 22-over-par in T240, and is at risk of heading that way once more after carding an 11-over 81 in Monday’s opening round to leave him nine adrift of the position he needs to progress in T242.
He now faces an almighty uphill battle to reach the knockout stages of an event his dad famously won three times in succession between 1991 and 1993, despite finding some consistency towards the end of his round.
Beginning on the 10th, Charlie made successive bogeys on his opening two holes before eventually securing his first par of the day at the 484-yard par 4 12th.
However, a costly double bogey on his fourth of the day, the par 4 13th, then followed, although things would continue to get worse before they got better when he recorded his third bogey of the day at the 615-yard par 5 15th.
After his opening six holes, Woods found himself five over for his round, yet further turmoil would follow with successive double bogeys at the par-3 16th and par-4 17th.
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It wasn’t until the 432-yard par-4 18th when things finally started to turn in Charlie’s favor, with the youngster securing his first birdie of the tournament on his ninth hole of the day.
It still left the aspiring golfer eight over for the round and languishing in T228 of the 264-player field as he made the turn, 10 adrift of the position he would need to continue after Tuesday’s second round.
As he began the back nine, Charlie could only record another bogey on his 10th of the day before the fourth double bogey of his round came on his 12th.
Eventually, he managed to find some consistency with four successive pars between his 13th and 16th of the day, yet he could still only muster his fifth bogey of the day and his second birdie at the 18th to close out his round.