Tiger And Charlie Woods To Play In PGA Tour Family Event

Team Woods will aim to win the PNC Challenge in Florida next month

Tiger And Charlie Woods To Play In PGA Tour Family Event
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Team Woods will aim to win the PNC Challenge in Florida next month

Tiger And Charlie Woods To Play In PGA Tour Family Event

Tiger Woods and his 11-year-old son Charlie will tee it up in the PNC Challenge family event on the PGA Tour next month.

The tournament was previously known as the Father/Son Challenge but it is now open to male and female Major winners and a family member.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am to be playing with Charlie in our first official tournament together. It’s been great watching him progress as a junior golfer and it will be incredible playing as a team together in the PNC Championship,” Woods said in a statement.

Charlie has shown some promising signs as a golfer over the past year or so and Tiger has been seen caddying for him on occasions.

We've seen glimpses of Charlie's swing on social media and it looks seriously impressive, but this will be the first time mass audiences will be able to get a proper look at his game.

“I don’t know. It depends how bad he wants it. It’s all on him,” Woods told Golf TV when asked about Charlie's future in the pro ranks.

“I wanted it at a very, very early age. I wanted to compete and play in this game. That’s on him — whether he wants it or not.”

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Justin Thomas and his dad Mike will also be making their tournament debuts, whilst defending champions Bernhard and Jason Langer will be looking to win the tournament back-to-back.

Gary Player, Greg Norman, Annika Sorenstam, Lee Janzen, Tom Kite, John Daly, Mark O’Meara, Retief Goosen, Tom Lehman, Padraig Harrington, Lee Trevino, Jim Furyk and Vijay Singh are also playing.

It takes place at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando (Grande Lakes) from 17th-20th December.

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Elliott Heath is our News Editor and has been with Golf Monthly since early 2016 after graduating with a degree in Sports Journalism. He manages the Golf Monthly news team as well as our large Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. He covered the 2022 Masters from Augusta National as well as five Open Championships on-site including the 150th at St Andrews. His first Open was in 2017 at Royal Birkdale, when he walked inside the ropes with Jordan Spieth during the Texan's memorable Claret Jug triumph. He has played 35 of our Top 100 golf courses, with his favourites being both Sunningdales, Woodhall Spa, Western Gailes, Old Head and Turnberry. He has been obsessed with the sport since the age of 8 and currently plays off of a six handicap. His golfing highlights are making albatross on the 9th hole on the Hotchkin Course at Woodhall Spa, shooting an under-par round, playing in the Aramco Team Series on the Ladies European Tour and making his one and only hole-in-one at the age of 15 - a long time ago now!

Elliott is currently playing:

Driver: Titleist TSR4

3 wood: Titleist TSi2

Hybrids: Titleist 816 H1

Irons: Mizuno MP5 5-PW

Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore 50, 54, 58

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG #5

Ball: Srixon Z Star XV