{"id":35505,"date":"2025-07-31T18:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35505\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T18:12:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:12:15","slug":"charlie-woods-9-second-round-birdies-vault-him-into-contention-at-junior-pga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/35505\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Woods\u2019 9 second-round birdies vault him into contention at Junior PGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone with the last name Woods made a big charge during the second round of a tournament that is run by the PGA of America.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods has won four PGA Championships, but on Wednesday it was his son Charlie, who made nine birdies during the second round of the Junior PGA Championship at Purdue University\u2019s Kampen Course to jump more than 40 spots up the leaderboard and into contention.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Woods, 16, shot an opening 70 on Tuesday and then made his move during Round 2 in a tournament that\u2019s been won by the likes of Trevor Immelman, Denny McCarthy, Sam Burns, Akshay Bhatia and Miles Russell. Even his father has not won this championship. Woods birdied six of his first eight holes\u2014bogey on the second\u2014and turned in 31. He then ran off birdies on Nos. 12, 14 and 15\u2014his seventh, eighth and ninth of the day\u2014before giving two back with bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes. He had one final chance for birdie from 10 feet on the last hole but the ball just slid by the cup. Woods tapped in for a six-under 66 and had moved up 42 positions and into the top five when he was done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit it about the same as I did in the first round, but the putter finally woke up today,\u201d Woods told reporters. \u201cIt felt really good in my hands, and I was able to roll a few in after some solid iron shots. Nice to get myself back in the mix and looking forward to getting after it tomorrow (Thursday).\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Birdie putt just misses by centimeters.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Woods finishes the second round of the Junior PGA Championship -7. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aMa7UewfQ0\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aMa7UewfQ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ethan Hanson (@EthanAHanson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EthanAHanson\/status\/1950597608017109465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the good news. The bad news, or news that\u2019s not as favorable, is that Woods is still seven shots off the lead held by Kansas\u2019 Lunden Esterlin, who shot 67-62 and is at 14-under-par total. Max VanderMolen and Chase Yenser are tied for second place, five behind Esterline.<\/p>\n<p>Half the field was still on the course when Woods finished. There will be a cut made to the top 60 and ties after 36 holes are complete. A secondary cut will be made after the third round to the top 30 and ties.<\/p>\n<p>Woods earned his first big junior title earlier this summer at an AJGA event at Streamsong Resort in Florida, where he shot 15 under to win against a top field. Just last week he missed the 36-hole cut at the U.S. Junior in Dallas, an event his father won three consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on golfdigest.com<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Someone with the last name Woods made a big charge during the second round of a tournament that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-35505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35505","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=35505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}