{"id":289723,"date":"2025-11-17T05:19:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289723\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:19:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:19:29","slug":"with-dad-tiger-on-hand-charlie-woods-shoots-low-score-powers-high-school-team-to-state-title-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/289723\/","title":{"rendered":"With dad Tiger on hand, Charlie Woods shoots low score, powers high school team to state title \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo: Ryan Lochhead\/PGA of America]<\/p>\n<p>With his famous father Tiger Woods walking around in the gallery only a month removed from a seventh back surgery, Charlie Woods shot the day\u2019s low round and led his Benjamin School (Palm Beach, Florida) squad to a second FHSAA Class 1A title.<\/p>\n<p>MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australiangolfdigest.com.au\/justin-thomas-surgery-announcement-instagram-herniated-disc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Thomas announces successful microdiscectomy surgery, provides no timetable for return<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 15-time major winner Woods Snr was in tow as Charlie, a junior, shot a four-under-par 68 at the Mission Inn Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, and Benjamin School scored a five-shot victory in the two-day event. The school won the state championship two years ago when Charlie was a freshman.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udc05\ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NEW<\/a> PHOTOS \u2014 Tiger Woods was walking the golf course this afternoon in central Florida as he watched and supported during Charlie\u2019s high school state championship match. Woods was alongside Elin Nordegren, as well as some of his TGR staff. (\ud83d\udcf8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pbpost?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@pbpost<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fBaFMqtccc\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/fBaFMqtccc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TWLEGION (@TWlegion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TWlegion\/status\/1989779514390380903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Woods, who has yet to make a choice for his college, tied First Academy senior Mingbo Jiang, a USC commit, for the day\u2019s best score. It was Jiang who won the state individual title by three shots over Benjamin\u2019s Andrew Tsar. Woods, 16, scored two under overall and tied for fourth.<\/p>\n<p>The high school victory continues a strong junior golf run of late for Woods, who ranks ninth in the AJGA rankings (fourth in the Class of 2027) and was recently named a first-team AJGA Rolex Junior All-American.<\/p>\n<p>Woods Snr\u2019s appearance at the state tournament was an encouraging sign. The 15-time major winner underwent lumbar disk replacement surgery in his L4\/L5 vertebrae on October 10, and at the time he said, \u201cI already know I made a good decision for my health and my back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been no public updates since then on Woods\u2019 health status or a timetable for his return to competitive golf.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Photo: Ryan Lochhead\/PGA of America] With his famous father Tiger Woods walking around in the gallery only a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,77908,166901,755,44,1747,85,9244],"class_list":{"0":"post-289723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-charlie-woods","11":"tag-florida-state-high-school-golf","12":"tag-golf","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pga-tour","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tiger-woods"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}