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Let nan unofficially charismatic passing of nan play torch begin.
Tiger Woods' 15-year-old son, Charlie, will beryllium teeing disconnected successful a U.S. Open qualifier connected Thursday.
The younger Woods is 1 of 84 players that will play 18 holes astatine The Legacy Golf & Tennis Club successful Port St. Lucie, Florida, teeing disconnected astatine 8:18 a.m. ET.
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Tiger Woods of The United States, left, and his boy Charlie Woods hold to putt connected nan ninth spread opinionated successful a akin manner during nan first information of nan PNC Championship astatine The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club connected Dec. 16, 2023 successful Orlando, Florida. (David Cannon/Getty Images)
If Woods finishes successful nan top-five, he will beforehand to nan Final Qualifying.
The father-son duo has played astatine nan past 4 PNC Championships, wherever master golfers squad up pinch a family member.
Charlie competed successful a pre-qualifier earlier this year, but changeable an 86.
His accomplishment is there, though. In this past PNC Championship, he really outdrove a greenish pinch a 321-yard bomb, and he deed a flop changeable astatine nan driving scope that moreover his begetter said was "f---ing nasty."
Tiger Woods of nan United States, right, embraces boy Charlie Woods connected nan 18th greenish during nan first information of nan PNC Championship astatine The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club connected Dec. 16, 2023 successful Orlando, Florida. (Mike Mulholland/Getty Images)
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At a tourney successful 2022, he outdrove his title by dozens of yards.
This year's U.S. Open will beryllium played astatine nan famed Pinehurst No. 2, nan tract of nan precocious Payne Stewart's now legendary triumph successful 1999, arsenic his ceremony later became a statue adjacent nan 18th spread - he died successful a level clang that October.
The 15-time awesome victor earned 3 of those astatine nan U.S. Open, nan past coming successful nan chaotic playoff of 2008 against Rocco Mediate. That had been his past awesome triumph until nan 2019 Masters.
Tiger Woods, eft, and Charlie Woods of nan United States during nan last information of nan PNC Championship astatine The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club connected Dec. 17, 2023 successful Orlando, Florida. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images)
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Tiger vanished T3 successful Stewart's triumph and has ne'er won astatine Pinehurst.
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