For Team Woods, Sunday at the PNC Championship will be all about the F word – fun.
Tiger and Charlie put together a superb round of 59 (13-under) on Saturday to grab a share of the lead alongside Team Langer and Team Singh and offer up the opportunity of a first win at the family event. Both of the other co-leading duos have tasted success before, with Bernhard one of the most successful players ever at this tournament.
For Tiger, winning has been more than a habit for over 20 years, but he is still as desperate to taste success at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club as any other Major or PGA Tour event. Charlie’s thirst for victory is identical, however, he doesn’t yet have the experience to fall back on while trying to nudge this first one over the line.
But, in between rounds at the 2024 PNC Championship, the maturing 15-year-old shared how much he has learned over the past 12 months, and in particular from another rollercoaster season of junior amateur golf.
Among the peaks and troughs of the teenager’s year included reaching the State Championship final with his school, missing out on qualifying for his first PGA Tour event ahead of the Cognizant Classic, qualifying for the US Junior Amateur after winning his local qualifying event by one stroke, and missing the cut at said US Junior by 18 strokes on 22-over par.
Tiger and Charlie Woods hug on the 18th green at the PNC Championship
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Despite the tough lesson at Oakland Hills Country Club, Woods admitted that week further highlighted a very valuable lesson he has been trying to learn for a while now.
He said: “It’s about focusing on my playing. I was so focussed on winning and how I played that it kind of crept into kind of how am I going to win, instead of how I’m going to play the shot, and it kind of built up and that caused two very, very bad rounds of golf. But live and learn.”
Later on, he said: “It’s just as I get older, I learn how to deal with different things. Like last year, I focused so much on winning and playing, instead of everything else and having fun out there. Like Dad said, I did a lot better today.”
Having fun and giving full attention to each shot was something of a theme throughout Team Woods’ post-round interview on Saturday, further suggesting that Tiger has been reiterating the…
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