{"id":273946,"date":"2025-11-05T23:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/273946\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:10:08","slug":"tiger-woods-son-among-12-named-first-team-all-america-by-ajga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/273946\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods&#8217; son among 12 named first-team All-America by AJGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRASELTON, Ga. &#8212; Charlie Woods now shares one honor with <a data-player-guid=\"b967ea91-ed2c-fad0-cf10-ba1dda3f869e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/462\/tiger-woods\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tiger Woods<\/a>, as the son of the 15-time major champion was named as a first-team All-American by the American Junior Golf Association on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Woods, a junior at The Benjamin School in South Florida, was among 12 boys named to the first team of the AJGA&#8217;s annual list. Miles Russell, the 17-year-old who was an alternate at the Walker Cup this summer, was selected player of the year for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Woods was the AJGA&#8217;s player of the year in 1991 and 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Woods won his first big title at the Team TaylorMade Invitational in May.<\/p>\n<p>The AJGA second team included Mason Howell, who won the U.S. Amateur and played in the Walker Cup, and Cameron Kuchar, the son of <a data-player-guid=\"2f0b17af-7ed7-66ad-459b-664568ef2e1e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/257\/matt-kuchar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Kuchar<\/a>, who plans to attend TCU.<\/p>\n<p>Aphrodite Deng, the Canadian living in New Jersey, was player of the year in the girls&#8217; division. Deng won the U.S. Girls Junior this year, along with two big AJGA events.<\/p>\n<p>The teams were determined exclusively through the Rolex AJGA Rankings as of Oct. 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRASELTON, Ga. &#8212; Charlie Woods now shares one honor with Tiger Woods, as the son of the 15-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-273946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}