{"id":706091,"date":"2026-07-22T23:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706091\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:31:18","slug":"charlie-woods-falls-at-u-s-junior-amateur-after-phone-goes-off-during-playoff-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706091\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Woods falls at U.S. Junior Amateur after phone goes off during playoff hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

The distraction cost Woods a chance at qualifying for match play<\/p>\n

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The untimely sound of a phone camera contributed to Charlie Woods making a costly error that ultimately ended his bid to play in the match-play portion of the U.S. Junior Amateur for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The son of 15-time major winner Tiger Woods, Charlie Woods was a part of a 14-for-2 playoff at Saucon Valley’s Grace Course on early Wednesday in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Hoping to earn his way into match play for the first time, Woods instead was eliminated after carding a bogey on the first playoff hole.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Woods had initially put himself in a decent position in the playoff. His two first shots on the par-5 hole left him with a short chip shot from the rough. But during his third shot, the sound of a phone camera during Woods’ backswing led to an errant chip, which contributed to Woods making a bogey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Woods, clearly irritated, was overheard saying, “Really dude? I mean, come on.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

After missing the cut during his first two appearances at the U.S. Junior, Woods overcame a slow start this year by playing his final 31 holes at 1-under entering the playoff (he was T63 at 5-over entering the playoff).\u00a0<\/p>\n

A high school senior, Woods is expected to sign with Florida State while being part of the Seminoles’ 2027 recruiting class that also includes No. 1 junior Miles Russell.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The distraction cost Woods a chance at qualifying for match play Jul 22, 2026 at 2:48 pm ET…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[50738,5904,101,8937,234260,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-charlie-woods","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-tiger-woods","tag-u-s-junior-amateur","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}