Published: 10:55, February 23, 2024 | Updated: 10:59, February 23, 2024
Charlie Woods fails to advance in pre-qualifier for PGA Tour event
By Reuters

Charlie Woods tees off during the final round of the PNC Championship golf tournament on Dec 17, 2023 in Orlando, Florida. (PHOTO / AP)

Charlie Woods' hopes of competing in the PGA Tour's Cognizant Classic next week ended as the 15-year-old son of golfing great Tiger Woods failed to advance from a pre-qualifying event in Hobe Sound, Florida on Thursday.

Woods went out with the early starters and carded a 16-over-par 86 at Lost Lake Golf Club, which was one of the four pre-qualifying sites.

With preferred lies in effect and players using carts, Woods was four over par through his first five holes before his round came undone with a disastrous 12 at the par-four seventh hole.

But Woods calmly responded with a string of six pars before a double-bogey at the par-three 14th that he followed with two consecutive bogeys before closing his round with a pair of pars.

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Woods played alongside Olin Browne Jr. - son of three-times PGA Tour winner Olin Browne - who carded a two-over-par 72.

The top five scores and ties from each of the pre-qualifying sites advance to Monday's qualifier from where the top four golfers advance to the Cognizant Classic, where the winner will get $1.62 million from the event's $9 million purse.