Tiger Woods is returning to the PNC Championship, the 36-hole occasion that has turn into one among his favourites due to his accomplice: His son.
Woods and 14-year-old Charlie are taking part in the PNC Championship for the fourth straight yr, the one match he has not missed over the past injury-plagued 4 years.
“It’s a tremendous present to have the ability to share my love of golf with Charlie and we genuinely do sit up for taking part in within the PNC Championship all years,” Woods mentioned Wednesday. “Competing collectively, in opposition to a subject of so many {golfing} greats and their households, is so particular.”
The PNC Championship is Dec. 16-17 on the Ritz-Carlton Golf Membership Orlando at Grande Lakes.
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Woods and son have been runner-up in 2021, simply 10 months after Woods badly broken his proper leg and ankle in a automotive crash in Los Angeles. They completed seventh of their 2020 debut and tied for eighth final yr.
Woods is to play subsequent week at his Hero World Problem within the Bahamas for the primary time since surgical procedure to fuse his proper ankle in April after the Masters. As a result of the PNC Championship is run by the PGA Tour Champions, Woods is allowed to experience in a cart.
The match is for main champions or winners of The Gamers Championship. It started as a father-son outing and now has gone fashionable, with tour gamers having little kids, grandchildren, even mother and father as their companions.
New to the sphere this yr is a formidable pair of Steve Stricker, who received three of the 4 majors he performed on the PGA Tour Champions this yr, and daughter Izzi, a state highschool champion in Wisconsin.
Padraig Harrington is taking part in for the sixth yr, this time with youngest son Ciaran as an alternative of Paddy.
“It was truly Ciaran watching Paddy and I play collectively on the market these final couple of years that basically ignited his ardour for the sport, which reveals what a really particular occasion that is,” Harrington mentioned. “He should have watched me play in a whole bunch of occasions through the years and it has taken the distinctive environment and expertise of the PNC Championship to encourage him!”
Additionally again is Lee Trevino, who at 84 is the one participant to have competed within the PNC Championship yearly because it started in 1995.