Tiger Woods and son Charlie to play in PNC Championship again،
Tiger Woods returns to the PNC Championship, the 36-hole event in Florida that has become one of his favorites thanks to his partner: his son.
Tiger Woods and 14-year-old Charlie Woods are playing in the PNC Championship for the fourth straight year, the only tournament he hasn’t missed in the past four injury-plagued years.
“It’s an incredible gift to be able to share my love of golf with Charlie, and we really look forward to playing in the PNC Championship every year,” Woods said Wednesday. “Competing together, against a field of so many great golfers and their families, is so special.”
The PNC Championship will be held Dec. 16-17 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club Orlando in Grande Lakes.
Woods and his son were finalists in 2021, just 10 months after Woods seriously injured his right leg and ankle in a car crash in Los Angeles. They finished seventh in their 2020 debut and tied for eighth last year.
Woods is scheduled to play next week at his Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas for the first time since surgery to fuse his right ankle in April after the Masters. Because the PNC Championship is run by PGA Tour champions, Woods is allowed to ride in a cart.
The tournament is for major champions or winners of the Players Championship. It started as a father-son outing and has now become modern, with tour players having sons and daughters, grandchildren and even parents as partners.
New to the field this year is a formidable couple of Steve Stricker, who has won three of the four majors he has played on the PGA Tour Champions this year, and his daughter Izzi, a state high school champion of Wisconsin.
Padraig Harrington is playing for the sixth year, this time with his youngest son Ciaran instead of Paddy.
“It was actually Ciaran watching Paddy and I play together over the last few years that really ignited his passion for the game, which shows what a very special event it is,” Harrington said. “He must have seen me perform in hundreds of events over the years, and it took the unique atmosphere and experience of the PNC Championship to inspire him!”
Also returning is Lee Trevino, who, at 84 years old, is the only player to have competed in the PNC Championship every year since his debut in 1995.
