Tiger Woods wasn’t physically ready to compete in the Hero World Challenge, but he’ll give another PNC Championship a go.
Woods announced Tuesday that he’ll team up with his 15-year-old son, Charlie, for a fifth time in the parent-child exhibition, set for Dec. 21-22 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida.
“I’m very excited to head back to the PNC Championship next week with Charlie,” Tiger said in a statement. “Playing together is something we look forward to and it’s always more special when you’re surrounded by friends and family.”
Field, format, TV times for PNC, featuring Tiger and Charlie Woods
Here’s the field, format, prize money and TV times for the PNC Championship.
Tiger and Charlie, a high-school sophomore at The Benjamin School in Palm Beach, Florida, have yet to win the PNC Championship, a 36-hole scramble featuring 20 teams of major champions and their family members, though they were runner-up to John Daly and son John Daly II in 2021 and tied for fifth last year.
The elder Woods, however, enters this year’s edition having not competed since missing the cut at The Open in July. He logged just five starts this year, with a solo 60th at the Masters his only made cut. He then underwent a microdecompression surgery on his lower back on Sept. 13.
Woods, who in recent years has also battled lower-leg injuries stemming from a February 2021 car accident, said last week that he was “not tournament sharp yet.”
“I’m still not there,” Woods said. “These are 20 of the best players in the world and I’m not sharp enough to compete against them at this level. So when I’m ready to compete and play at this level, then I will.”
He also told Sports Illustrated last Tuesday that he planned to participate in his team’s TGL opener on Jan. 14, though if that season began on that day, it would be “very difficult” to play.
Charlie made his USGA championship debut this past summer, qualifying for the U.S. Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills, where, with his dad watching, he missed the cut with rounds of 82-80. He also tied for 29th at last month’s Class 1A Florida High School Boys State Championship in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. Benjamin School, which won the state title Charlie’s freshman year, finished runner-up as a team.
