Charlie Woods comes up short in U.S. Open qualifying attempt

Published 2:40 pm Thursday, April 25, 2024

Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of golf superstar Tiger Woods, failed to advance to the next stage of U.S. Open qualifying after shooting a 9-over-par 81 during a local qualifying event on Thursday at the Legacy Golf & Tennis Club in Port St. Lucie, Fla.

Woods needed to finish in the top 5 to advance to the final round of qualifying, but his score put him near the bottom of the leader board. His card featured three double bogeys, four bogeys and a lone birdie at the par-3 fifth hole.

Thursday’s local qualifier was one of 109 such events for the U.S. Open, which begins June 13 at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina. The top finishers at the local qualifiers advance to one of the 10 U.S. sectional qualifying tournaments on May 20 or June 3.

Woods faced exceedingly long odds. Last year, only 530 players out of 9,693 (5.5%) advanced out of local qualifying, where they were joined by 348 players who received an exemption from the U.S. Golf Association into the sectional qualifying round. Of those 878 golfers in sectional qualifying, only 64 earned a berth in last year’s U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. That’s 7.3%.

— The Washington Post

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