There was plenty of talk that Charlie Woods would be playing the same tees as John Daly at last year’s PNC Championship before the decision being corrected, but this time Tiger Woods’ son has indeed been moved back with some of the bigger hitters.
Woods Jnr will play from the 6,500+ yard tees at Orlando’s Ritz Carlton Golf Club this week, which are the same tees that the likes of John Daly, Nelly Korda, Vijay Singh and Retief Goosen will be hitting from.
The 14-year-old will likely be hitting the ball much further than last year and, although we have no data on his driving distance, we’d hazard a guess it’s somewhere between 250-270 yards considering John Daly has averaged 282 yards this year and Nelly Korda 269 yards.
“For the @PNCchampionship Charlie Woods will be moving back a tee from last year,” the Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
All of the male PGA Tour players will be off the backs this week, measuring over 7,100 yards, including Tiger Woods who makes his second appearance since undergoing ankle surgery in April.
Woods finished 18th in the four-day Hero World Challenge earlier this month, where he seemed very happy with how his body held up with the demand of 72-holes and walking – crucially this week he’ll be allowed a cart for the 36-hole event.
“I haven’t done it in a while, I haven’t done it with my ankle the way it is now and I was excited each and every day to kind of get through it and kind of start piecing rounds together again,” Woods said after the Hero World Challenge final round.
“I haven’t done this in a long time so it was fun to feel that again. Every day I got faster into the round. The first day took me a while to get a handle on it, second day was faster, today was right away.
“And that’s eventually, when I play on a regular basis, that’s normally how it is. It takes me usually during warmup before I get a feel for the round. To be honest, that first day took me a while.”
Team Woods make their fourth appearance at the PNC Championship, having finished T8th last year, 2nd in 2021 and 7th in 2020. Vijay and Qass Singh are this week’s defending champions.
