I want to win USGA Championship – Charlie Woods
Tiger Woods quickly returned to Michigan from Scotland after missing the cut at the British Open at Royal Troon, where he shot 79-77. The 15-time major champion hurried back to the United States to assist his son, Charlie, in preparing for his first USGA championship. The U.S. Junior, held at Oakland Hills in Bloomfield Township,…
Tiger Woods quickly returned to Michigan from Scotland after missing the cut at the British Open at Royal Troon, where he shot 79-77. The 15-time major champion hurried back to the United States to assist his son, Charlie, in preparing for his first USGA championship. The U.S. Junior, held at Oakland Hills in Bloomfield Township, begins on Monday with 264 players competing in two rounds of stroke play. The field will be narrowed to 64 for match play starting on Wednesday, with the championship match scheduled for Saturday.
Fifteen-year-old Charlie Woods qualified for the championship by shooting a one-under 71 last month in South Florida. His father, Tiger, won this championship three times consecutively from 1991-1993.
“The USGA means a lot to me,” Charlie said after earning medalist honors at Eagle Trace Golf Club in Coral Springs. “I want to win USGA championships and hopefully one day the U.S. Open.”
On Sunday, footage emerged of Tiger walking the fairways with Charlie and Davis Ovard, a freshman at Baylor University. Charlie is grouped with Ovard and Chase Kyes for the first two rounds. They will play the North Course on Monday at 8:28 a.m. ET, followed by the South Course on Tuesday starting at 1:48 p.m. ET.
The South Course, with its 105-year history, has hosted 11 USGA championships, including six U.S. Opens. It has also hosted three PGA Championships and the 2004 Ryder Cup, where U.S. captain Hal Sutton controversially paired Woods with Phil Mickelson for two matches, both of which they lost.
Tiger played in the 1996 U.S. Open at Oakland Hills as an amateur, finishing tied for 82nd. He won his third straight U.S. Amateur the following month before turning professional. Although Woods did not participate in the 2008 PGA Championship at Oakland Hills, won by Padraig Harrington, he won the U.S. Open earlier that summer at Torrey Pines before undergoing reconstructive surgery to repair a damaged ACL.