Golf fans have reacted to the prodigy Charlie Wood’s achievements when he teamed up with dad Tiger at the PNC Championship.
The father-son duo impressed at the event in Orlando, Florida, when they beat 11 birdies together in the competition that eventually won John Daly and his son, John Daly II.
Dalys won due to a final round of 57 that beat the Woods team by 2 shots and saw them finish 27 under par.
However, in response to a clip already seen by 1.4 million people, golf enthusiasts hurried to praise 12-year-old Charlie.
With a perfect “dart”, as the PGA Tour described it, his 117 mph shot landed perfectly on the green just a few meters from the 17th hole on a par 3, when he coolly gave his father a fist bump behind.
Players have predicted big things for the young Tiger share custody with former Swedish model and ex-wife Elin Nordegren.
“I can not wait to watch this kid when he’s on a professional tour !!!” beamed a fan.
“Oh man, people who play golf generally know how hard the game is and how good you have to be to play at a top level. But the kid is simply over it!”
“What am I watching? Is this the kid the other one coming?” asked someone else.
“He can be better”, came a reply to that, before another party pointed out that Tiger was already at that age the world number 1 for juniors.
“Fair, the only mitigating thing is that he has not been pushed into it and taken care of as Tiger was,” was the next point raised back and forth.
“And he has a better teacher,” it was also said, to support this.
“825-1 for him to win major with 25 is the odds … tempting”, emphasized an individual who skipped the gun.
“It’s a long time to have to hold on to a ticket,” he was told.
The sports world also celebrated the return of Woods the Elder, who had a terrible car accident in his SUV in February when alleged travel 45 mph faster than the speed limit in Southern California.
But as the 15-time major winner emphasized from the PNC Championship, supporters should not raise their hopes that he would add that figure any time soon.
“I’m far from the level that a PGA Tour tournament requires,” Woods said.
“I can not bear it. I could not even walk such a flat course as this. It is enough for me to be able to say that I have my leg attached to me.
“This will go a long way, where there are no free days and no goals. I do not know how far I can go,” he worried.
As for Charlie, Woods claims that his son “has a club speed that I did not have”.
“Maybe I was taller at his age, but much narrower. Like a rail. Like an iron. He has imitated many of my manners that sons do for fathers. Because I’m not really his coach, I’m his father.
“And I have to educate him that studies come first. If he asks me about golf stuff later, I’ll be there,” Woods stressed.
(RT.com)