{"id":462283,"date":"2026-02-11T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462283\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:05:08","slug":"tiger-woods-son-charlie-commits-to-play-golf-at-florida-state-santa-cruz-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462283\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods\u2019 son Charlie commits to play golf at Florida State \u2013 Santa Cruz Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Woods, the 17-year-old son of golf great Tiger Woods, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/story\/_\/id\/47890770\/charlie-woods-commits-play-golf-florida-state-2027\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">committed to hit the links as a member of Florida State\u2019s golf team<\/a>\u00a0in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>The high school junior confirmed his decision on Instagram\u00a0Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcited to announce my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DUl2tsRkqoK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">commitment to play golf at Florida State University<\/a> \u2014 go Noles!\u201d he captioned the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie, a student at The Benjamin School in Palm Beach, Fla., became a highly sought-after recruit after quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajga.org\/rankings\/boys\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">climbing<\/a> the Rolex American Junior Golf Association rankings, where he\u2019s currently 21st.<\/p>\n<p>He also helped The Benjamin School win a Florida High School Athletic Association Class A state title in November, their second championship in three years.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Tiger Woods of the United States leaves the driving after watching the players warm up with his son Charlie Woods (L) during the final round of the Hero World Challenge 2025 at Albany Golf Course on Dec. 7, 2025 in Nassau, Bahamas. (Photo by David Cannon\/Getty Images)\" width=\"3900\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2250563177.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"4110710\" \/>Tiger Woods of the United States leaves the driving after watching the players warm up with his son Charlie Woods (L) during the final round of the Hero World Challenge 2025 at Albany Golf Course on Dec. 7, 2025 in Nassau, Bahamas. (Photo by David Cannon\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Miles Russell of Jacksonville Beach, Fla. is the current No. 1 in the Rolex AJGA rankings, and has also committed to Florida State.<\/p>\n<p>Several of FSU coach Trey Jones\u2019 former players have gone on to join the PGA tour.<\/p>\n<p>By opting to join the FSU Seminoles, Charlie decided not to follow in the footsteps of his famous father,\u00a0a 15-time major champion who played two years at Stanford before going pro in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie\u2019s sister, Sam, is currently a freshman at Stanford, though she\u2019s focused on academics instead of sports.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Charlie Woods, the 17-year-old son of golf great Tiger Woods, has committed to hit the links as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2662,3,99,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-462283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-college-sports","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462283","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=462283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}