Tiger Woods’ mystery weapon this week at the U.S. Open? It may be his ‘Player Support’
PINEHURST, N.C. — Fifteen-time major winner Tiger Woods includes a 15-year-old as his eyes and ears this week at the 124th U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 – child Charlie.
“I think having Charlie out here is exceptionally extraordinary. To have the father-son relationship that we have and to expand it into this portion of both of our lives, he’s playing a parcel of junior golf, and I’m still playing out here,” Tiger said.
Charlie has been interior the ropes and on the extend with a player back identification, making him the closest thing Tiger needs to an official coach.
“As distant as his obligations, it’s the same. I believe him with my swing and my diversion. He’s seen it more than anyone else within the world. He’s seen me hit more golf balls than anyone,” Tiger clarified of Charlie’s part. “I tell him what to search for, particularly with putting. He gave me some small side bits nowadays, which was extraordinary, since I get so settled in in hitting certain putts to certain pins, I tend to disregard a few of the things I’m working on.”
“It’s flawless for him to see the folks that he watches on TV and YouTube and TikTok, anything the hell it is that they do,” Tiger said. “He was exceptionally energized nowadays to observe Max and Min Charm and observe them hit golf balls. They’ve talked to him very a bit, particularly Min Charm and him. I think they’re closer in age than I am to anyone else. It’s extraordinary. It’s awesome for us to be able to share these minutes together.”
“I do,” he said. “I feel like I have the quality to be able to do it. It’s fair a matter of doing it.
“This golf course is reaching to test each single aspect of your amusement, particularly rationally, and fair the mental teach that it takes to play this specific golf course, it’s aiming to take a lot.”
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Woods wrapped up T-3 at Pinehurst in 1999 and moment in 2005 but missed the 2014 U.S. Open here. He said this can be the primary time he’s been back since the renowned worldwide Donald Ross format experienced a restoration by Coore-Crenshaw ahead of the 2014 Open won by Martin Kaymer. In arrangement for the course’s turtleback greens, Woods has been investing additional time at domestic with his putter but said that can as it were do so much.
“Nothing can reenact what we have here this specific week, the sum of small shots and the handles and run-offs, and either utilizing wedges or long irons or woods around the greens or indeed putter,” he said. “There’s so numerous diverse shots simply truly can’t reenact unless you get on the property. That’s one of the reasons I came up here last Tuesday.”
How challenging will the greens be? “It depends how extreme the USGA needs to form this and how near they need to induce us up to those sides,” he said. “But I anticipate a bit like in ’05 observing a few of the folks play ping-pong back and forward. It may happen.”
Woods too will be accepting the USGA’s most elevated honor, the Weave Jones Grant, amid a ceremony on Tuesday evening. Tiger and Jones both won nine USGA titles, sharing the record for the most USGA championships. Tiger would like nothing more than to break that tie and ended up the primary to reach twofold digits.