The genesis of the switch is that Woods was getting some questions from his team about the Tour B X and wanted to be able to speak intelligently about the differences.
Their commitment to the PNC, which was expected, means that Tiger Woods will play three times in December after not playing any competitive golf since the Open Championship in July.
When the latest Official World Golf Ranking was released on Monday, many people went scanning the top to see what victories by Tom Kim on the PGA Tour and Jon Rahm on the DP World Tour would do for their placement (they jumped to 15th and fifth, respectively).
Tiger and Charlie put on one helluva show, dropping 11 straight birdies from Nos.7-17 at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club to briefly tie Team Daly for the lead.
They’re all professional golfers. Many of them live in Florida. We know it’s a big state, but you figure that they cross paths at one time or another. So this is one that shocked us: Nelly Korda, the current No.1 female player in the world, had never met Tiger Woods.
Henrik Stenson was attending his own celebrity roast party, and he didn’t even know it. Or if he did, his 11-year-old son, Karl, created an act with Peter Jacobsen that was worthy of a “Saturday Night Live” skit.
The most anticipated return to golf since, well, Tiger Woods’ last return to golf sees the 15-time Major champion wielding what might very well become the most-talked about club of the year.
Justin Thomas and Tiger Woods warned us that Charlie Woods’ trash talk game was already elite at age 11. We got a taste of that early on Saturday at the PNC Championship.
The father-son duo arrived at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club early for a practice session, and videos of the two hitting balls side-by-side already have the Internet buzzing.
Woods said entering the event was a joint decision and was all about emphasising the most important thing in Charlie’s development as a golfer: keeping it fun.
Tiger and Thomas have grown close over the past half-decade, as Thomas was instrumental in motivating Woods to return to the PGA Tour after his spinal fusion surgery.