12 outstanding prospects selected by the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA)\n Team Winner of the TaylorMade Competition, etc.\n Team Korea ranked 9th in men’s rankings this year.\n1992 AJGA Player of the Year 1991\n
사진 확대 Tiger Woods (left) and son Charlie Woods. AFP Yonhap News Agency
Charlie Woods (16), the son of “Golf Emperor” Tiger Woods of the U.S., has been named the U.S. Junior Golf Association (AJGA) First Team of the Year.
On the 6th (Korea Standard Time), AJGA selected and announced 12 prospects who have performed outstandingly this year as the first team.
Charlie, who was born in 2009, is ranked 9th in the AJGA rankings this year, winning the Team TaylorMade Invitational in May.
Charlie was sluggish at the World Junior Championship, tied for 52nd place this year, but he later strengthened his position as a prospect with a team TaylorMade Invitational win in May after tying for 25th at the Junior Invitational at Sage Wood.
Since then, he has once again succeeded in the top 10 by tying for ninth at the Voice Junior PGA Championship held in Wall, and it remains regrettable that he failed to continue his upward trend by tying for 31st at the Junior Players Championship, which was just dropped in September.
In the same field, father Tiger Woods was simply the ruler. Woods won the ‘Player of the Year’ award to the AJGA’s best player for two consecutive years in 1991 and 1992.
Analyzing his performance this season, Charlie is expected to perform well if he surpasses the jinx of poor performance in the final round.
The only time he recorded a 60-something stroke in the final round was the Team Tailor Made Invitational. And I lifted the trophy. In the Voice Junior PGA Championship, he shot 74 on the final day to be pushed out of the competition for the championship, 72 in the fourth round of the Junior Players Championship, and 83 in the fourth round of the 108th Florida amateur championship.
But there’s one part where Charlie is beyond his dad. It’s a hole-in-one.
Woods made 20 hole-in-ones in his career, but only three in official tournaments. Charlie, on the other hand, has already made it twice.
He made his first hole-in-one in the PNC Championship, a family golf tournament he participated with Woods in December last year, and once again recorded an ace in the third hole (par 3, 177 yards) on the final day of the Junior Players Championship in September this year.
This year’s AJGA Player of the Year was won by Miles Russell of the U.S. and Aphrodite Deng of Canada. In particular, Russell, who is considered a “teen genius golfer,” broke Woods’ record in 2023 and won the AJGA Player of the Year Award as the youngest player in history.
사진 확대 Charlie Woods’ Iron Shot. Junior Invitational SNS Capture
