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Charlie Woods, the son of 15-time major champion Tiger Woods, got his first ever hole-in-one while playing alongside his father in the PNC Championship on Sunday (December 22).
Charlie, 15, scored an ace on the par-3 fourth hole of the final round in Orlando. Tiger was taking a break at the time, but immediately ran over and hugged his son once he was notified about the hole-in-one.
Charlie, who was matching his father's iconic Sunday Red signature attire, appeared to be in disbelief that his tee shot went into the hole as others nearby excitedly celebrated the shot.
“It was a perfect 7-iron so I just kind of hit it. Just 175 [yards], a little down off the left, little cut seven,” Charlie told Golf Channel after the ace shot.
“It was awesome. I didn’t think it went in. I don’t believe anybody until I go up there and see it.”
Team Woods, who was caddied by Tiger's daughter and Charlie's sister, Sam, was leading the PNC Championship at the time of Charlie's ace shot. The 15-year-old is inching closer to his professional career, having appeared in his first qualifying tournament in April.
“I was always reminding him, ‘Just be you.’ Charlie is Charlie,” Tiger said on Friday (December 20) via the New York Post. “Yes, he’s my son. He’s going to have my last name, and it’s going to be part of his core. But I just want him to be just himself and be his own person. That’s what we can only do.
“I always encourage it, for him to carve his own name, carve his own path and have his own journey,” he added. “I think he’s doing a great job. In this day and age where everyone is basically media, with all the phones, being constantly filmed and constantly people watching, that’s just part of his generation, and that’s part of the world that he has to maneuver through.”
Tiger Woods, widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential golfers of all-time ranks second all-time behind only Jack Nicklaus (18) in career majors and has 82 PGA Tour victories, tied with Sam Snead for the most all-time.