Golf fans buzzing with latest Charlie Woods news
Tiger Woods' teenage son Charlie, 16, is in the field for a prestigious junior event in Florida alongside Donald Trump's granddaughter Kai.
Tiger Woods' teenage son Charlie is set to play an event that is widely considered junior golf's version of The Masters.
The 16-year-old is listed among the entrants for the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley in Graniteville, South Carolina.
Donald Trump's talented granddaughter Kai Trump, 15, is also in the field for the tournament played over 19-22 March.
Past winners of the prestigious event include Scottie Scheffler (2014), Joaquin Niemann (2017), Akshay Bhatia (2018), Austin Eckroat (2016), Carson Young (2012) and Aldrich Potgieter.
New:
The girls' event debuted in 2022. Former Augusta National Women's Amateur champion Anna Davis won in 2023. Asterisk Talley is the reigning champion.
Charlie, who recently celebrated his 16th birthday, is currently No. 713 in the American Junior Golf Association ranking.
He began gaining public attention in 2020 when he participated in the PNC Championship with dad Tiger aged 11.
They have played every edition of the parent/child PGA Tour event since.
Tiger and Charlie were defeated in a playoff by Bernhard Langer and his son Jason in the 2024 PNC Championship.
Charlie qualified for his first ever U.S. Junior Amateur last summer.
His father won the tournament in 1991, 1992 and 1993.
Unfortunately for Charlie, he missed out on the weekend action by 18 strokes.
Charlie opened up on that disappointment last December, telling reporters: "I was so focused 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."
Other notable achievements in Charlie's career so far include winning the South Florida PGA Junior Cup.
And he also helped the Benjamin School to a state team title in 2023, a few months removed from winning a Hurricane Junior Tour event.
Junior Invitational fields:
Boys
Tyler Mawhinney
Ronin Banerjee
Will Hartman
Hamilton Coleman
Tyler Watts
Henry Guan
Joshua Bai
Luke Colton
Lev Grinberg
Mason Howell
Carson Bertagnole
Kartik Singh
Louis Klein
Viggo Olsson Mork
Trevor Gutschewski
Jackson Byrd
Miles Russell
Michael Riebe
Le Khanh Hung
Joshua Kim
Hugo Le Goff
Logan Reilly
Robby Turnbull
Oscar Couilleau
Thanawin Lee
Giovanni Binaghi
Dan Hayes
Nguyen Ang Minh
Pennson Badgett
Evan Pena
Bowen Mauss
Aidan Lawson
Ben Bolton
Rayhan Latief
John Daniel Culbreth
Haoyi Wang
Charlie Woods
Girls
Amelie Zalsman
Scarlett Schremmer
Natalie Yen
Jude Lee
Elizabeth Rudisill
Aphrodite Deng
Mia Clausen
Louise Uma Landgraf
Havanna Torstensson
Gianna Clemente
Luana Valero Moyano
Avery McCrery
Nikki Oh
Asterisk Talley
Sara Brentchenoff
Pimpisa Rubrong
Achiraya Sriwong
Sarah Hammett
Alice Kong
Soomin Oh
Sofia Cherif Essakali
Yujie Liu
Yijia Ren
Kai Trump
Watched our latest video?
Ben joined the GolfMagic team in September 2021, initially as a content executive.
These days, he assumes the position of content manager.
