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If the Terra Cotta Invitational was only a two-round event held at the weekend, Charlie Woods<\/a> might have had a shot at the title.<\/p>\n However, the son of 15-time Major winner Tiger Woods<\/a> was competing in a three-day tournament at Naples National Golf Club in Florida and his opening-round performance cost the aspiring pro any chance of contending.<\/p>\n Woods started out with an error-strewn 79 where half of his 18 holes resulted in bogeys on Friday. In among the mistakes were two birdies which helped reduce the damage somewhat.<\/p>\n But, as he has so often done across his junior career, the Florida State commit<\/a> put his bad day in the trash and returned to the course the following day a different player.<\/p>\n Although there was a bogey at the first hole on Saturday – and three more besides later in the round – Woods battled away and made five birdies to sign for a one-under 71.<\/p>\n Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n Another bogey on the first in round three was hardly the start Woods was looking to make, but he once again rallied and was mistake-free for the remainder of the event.<\/p>\n Gains on the sixth, seventh and ninth holes allowed him to make the turn in just 34 strokes, and an eight-hole run of pars was only ended by another birdie at the 18th which resulted in a three-under-par 69 on Sunday.<\/p>\n All told, Woods finished the tournament on three-over-par and in a share of 42nd place. Matt Kuchar’s son Cameron ended just a stroke ahead, unable to follow in his dad’s footsteps by winning this event (1997).<\/p>\n The Terra Cotta Invitational champion was Connor Doyal of Charleston, South Carolina who finished on 12-under thanks to scores of 70-67-67. Toronto, Canada’s Dawson Lew finished second just a stroke behind.<\/p>\n Other notable entrants in the 72-player field included Trevor Gutschewski (-8, T8th), Miles Russell<\/a> (-7, T12th) and 2024 US Amateur finalist Noah Kent<\/a> (+2, T34th).<\/p>\n Woods hasn’t cracked the top-20 in his past three starts now, with the most recent high finish arriving via a T19th at the Junior Orange Bowl International back in the first week of January.<\/p>\n Since then, the 17-year-old has ended 68th in the AJGA Simplify Boys Championship at Carlton Woods and 36th in the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley.<\/p>\n Woods was in fine form last year with a victory at the Team TaylorMade Invitational in May before a T9th at the Boy’s Junior PGA Championship, a T31st result at the Junior Players Championship and a T18th at the Rolex Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[259417,40180,11404,427,259418,99,259416,6897],"class_list":{"0":"post-595314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-carlton-woods","9":"tag-charlie-woods","10":"tag-florida-state","11":"tag-golf","12":"tag-naples-national-golf-club","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-terra-cotta-invitational","15":"tag-tiger-woods"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595314","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=595314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Charlie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/87c15003662541c846c20e6a079ce720.jpeg\"\/)
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