Charlie Woods is in the field this week for the PGA of America’s premier annual junior golf event.
Woods, a rising junior at the Benjamin School and son of legendary golfer Tiger Woods, will play the 49th Boys & Girls Junior PGA Championships from July 29-Aug. 1 at Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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The Junior PGA Championships are comprised of two 72-hole stroke play tournaments for boys and girls junior amateur golfers. This year’s boys and girls tournaments will each feature 156 golfers, respectively.
First round play is scheduled for Tuesday with the boys tournament on Purdue University’s Ackerman-Allen Course and the girls tournament on the Kampen-Cosler Course.
The tournament will cut to the top 60 plus ties after Wednesday’s second round. It will cut down to the top 30 plus ties after the third round on Thursday.
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The Junior PGA Championships were first hosted in 1976 and have a long history in Palm Beach County.
From 1980-2000, the event was hosted PGA National Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens in all but two years. In 1990, Tiger Woods finished runner-up to Fort Lauderdale’s Chris Couch at PGA National.
Previous tournament winners include major champions Trevor Immelman and David Toms.
Charlie Woods tee time, pairings
Charlie Woods on the first hole during the second round of stroke play of the 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, Texas on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. (Dustin Satloff/USGA)
Woods will begin the first round at 12:50 p.m. Tuesday on hole No. 10 of Purdue’s Ackerman-Allen Course.
He is paired with New York’s Jackson Ormond and fellow Floridian Tyler Mawhinney.
Woods will begin the second round at 7:41 a.m. Wednesday on hole No. 1 of Purdue’s Kampen-Cosler Course.
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Eric J. Wallace is deputy sports editor for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at ejwallace@gannett.com.
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