Seeing double: Tiger Woods and son Charlie play in perfect symmetry in the famous Sunday red



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This may be rare these days, but golf fans have long been accustomed to watching Tiger Woods wear red on sundays.

But at the PNC Championship, the audience saw double. In the final round of the annual event in Orlando, Tiger and son Charlie performed perfectly symmetrically.

At 13, his father won two more major tournaments than he had birthdays, but Charlie impressed everyone at the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club with his teeing approach and inevitable but eerily accurate shots. comparisons to a play partner.

The pair finished eighth in a star field of 20 players, and only players who won a major championship or players’ championship were invited to play with their relatives. After finishing second last year, Woods finished six shots behind three-time Fiji Grand Champion Vijay Singh and his son Kass Singh.

In addition to matching outfits, the duo also coordinated as they played through pain. Woods, who participated in only the second event after his emotional St. Andrews walk at The Open in July, he was treated for plantar fasciitis, a pain in the bottom of his foot, while Charlie admitted to struggling with an ankle injury sustained during a practice round.

The injury was the story of Woods’ recent career, with his playing time cut short after he sustained serious foot injuries in a car crash in February 2021. The 46-year-old withdrew from the Hero World Challenge earlier this month, citing pain in his leg at various points and seemed to be struggling with movement during the seventh edition of The Match last week.

“It’s been a difficult year, but also one of the most rewarding in recent memory,” Woods told reporters Sunday.

“I don’t know if I will ever return to play St. Andrews at the UK Open, but being able to experience it for perhaps the last time at this level was very special for me.”

Charlie Woods bets while Father Tiger watches.

Sharing a golf cart to move around the course, father and son sometimes limped on weekends. However, with two good legs between them, Woods believes that he and his son were “perfect yin and yang.”

β€œHe has a left leg, I have a right leg, so we have two good legs – we are doing well.” – Woods. said SiriusXM Radio PGA Tour on Saturday.

“There’s a big difference between pain and injury… If you’re injured then you’re not playing, it’s just a little pain and it’s time to play, so we just go out and make peace together.”

Tiger and Charlie Woods share a cart on Sunday.

Charlie added: β€œNow, after a very minor injury, I have a newfound respect for him.

β€œJust to see what he goes through, at least some of it, and see how much it hurts. It’s cool how he ended up where he is now after everything he’s been through.”

After a day of friendly squabbling with Justin Thomas and his father, second-place finisher Mike, Charlie had a double-edged compliment in store for his father.

β€œI think I already knew what he was capable of, and yesterday it was the best thing he has ever played in recent times, and it shocked me a little,” he told reporters.

Charlie Woods' technique has been compared to that of his father.

The laughter in the press room subsided, only to be rekindled by Woods’s response.

β€œI used to be good,” he said.

β€œIt was great to be able to turn back time so he could see what I was capable of before.”