{"id":12152,"date":"2024-12-24T06:16:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12152"},"modified":"2024-12-24T06:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:16:08","slug":"tiger-woods-son-charlie-hits-first-hole-in-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12152","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods&#8217; son Charlie hits first hole-in-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of golf great Tiger Woods, hit his first ever hole-in-one during the final round of the PNC Championship in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The moment came on the par-three fourth hole and propelled the Woods duo into the lead at the family-centred tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Team Woods had opened the final round with back-to-back birdies, followed by a par on the par-five third hole before the stunning hole-in-one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a perfect seven-iron,&#8221; Charlie Woods told the Golf Channel. &#8220;It was awesome. I didn&#8217;t think it went in &#8230; until I go up there and see it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo-captioned photo-captioned-full photo-cntr eight_col \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.rnztools.nz\/rnz\/image\/upload\/s--ji0BJEXi--\/ar_16:10,c_fill,f_auto,g_auto,q_auto,w_1050\/v1644537081\/4LZTZZI_copyright_image_282492?_a=BACCd2AD\" alt=\"Tiger Woods and son Charlie Woods at the 2020 PNC Championship in Florida.\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\"><span class=\"credit\">Photo:\u00a0AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tiger and his son, Charlie, are chasing their first title at the event, which features 20 champions competing alongside a member of their family. The pair have competed for the last four years and were runners-up in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old Tiger Woods, who underwent microdecompression surgery for nerve impingement on his lower back in September, is playing in his first competitive event since the US Open in July.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Padraig Harrington&#8217;s son, Paddy, sank his first career ace on the 214-yard, par-3 eighth a few minutes later, lifting that pair to within a stroke of the leaders.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>&#8211; Reuters<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of golf great Tiger Woods, hit his first ever hole-in-one during the final round of the PNC Championship in Orlando, Florida. The moment came on the par-three fourth hole and propelled the Woods duo into the lead at the family-centred tournament. Team Woods had opened the final round with back-to-back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12154,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12152\/revisions\/12154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}