Charlie Woods just achieved something extremely impossible

Charlie Woods is the winner.

He won the American Youth Golf Association Championship on Wednesday, sponsored by Taylormade and held in Streamsong for the answer to Bandon Dunes in Central Florida. There are many familiar names there. Tiger and Elling’s son, Charlie Woods, is only 16 years old, but if you’ve been watching the game closely for 16 years, you’ve already realized him. His birth is news.

It’s not an easy way to live, and it’s even harder when you choose the same path (paper-scoring golf), just like your world-famous father. This makes the edge of this victory amazing. Winning the AJGA event is not eye-catching. Dozens of different kids will win the AJGA event before the end of the year. But when your name is Charlie Woods, when millions see you playing golf for years now, it’s a few years offered by the PNC Championships (the old father and son winter event), everything will change. Charlie Woods does not have the freedom that every teen deserves and can be relatively anonymous.

Any considerations by golfer Charlie Woods must be achieved through the prism of empathy.

Yes, he can use the best teachers, the best equipment, the best range and courses. He flew in the world by private jet and was educated in an elite private school. I don’t think these shortcomings are easy to overcome.

Ben Hogan told Ken Venturi in an interview in 1983:

“I’m sorry for the rich kids now. I’m really sorry because they will never have a chance. Because I know the hard things and I’ve had a tough day in my life, I can handle the tough things. They can’t do it. Every day they’re improving is a joy for me, and I recognize that.”

Tiger Woods will understand this, as will Sam Snead and Byron Nelson, Bernhard Langer and Vijay Singh, Charlie Sifford and Casey Martin. Gary Player has a son, Wayne Player, who is good but not enough to play in the PGA Tour. Raymond Floyd, too. Jack Nicklaus, too.

It would be half a miracle if Charlie Woods got good enough to be a productive member of the I-level college golf team. Because of being able to shoot 72 shots on a difficult route, pencils, people are watching 72 day after day.

Charlie Woods won three games in 70, 65 and 66 rounds. (The game for Matt Kuchar’s son Cameron is over, with his rounds of 71, 70 and 69.) If he’s really lucky, Charlie Woods will have something millions of people own, a game he can play for the rest of his life. But it’s ridiculous to think that our golf brings-Joy standard makes sense to Charlie Woods. Because we all know that golf is a battle against tigers only through his body expression. From what we see Charlie’s tiny, it seems to suit him too. The son’s father’s behavior was very cold. This is the case, he also has his own mentality.

Arnold Palmer loves to play golf. But when he opened at the Nationals, when he called the U.S. Open, that was for his father. He won once in 1960, thus giving his father (deacon) what he wanted. After the victory, Arnold’s Cherry Hills were exactly the same. He said. Tigers obviously like the competitive elements of tournament golf. As an amateur, golf is a way for him to maintain close relationships with his father, keeping his father in a sense of status and satisfaction, leaving nothing else in the world to keep his parents’ marriage known to be tense. For a child, there are a lot to do with golf or anything else. But whether they realize it or not, millions of kids around the world, from all walks of life, find themselves doing something.

Charlie Woods won the AJGA press release, “Just being able to say to myself that I won an absolutely amazing game and say that I performed in high pressure situations was huge.” “I can’t say I’ve done it, and now I can be a big deal for my mental game.”

That’s an explanatory thing, right there: move forward, move forward, move forward. When your Charlie Woods, you don’t have another child’s luxury.

This is a serious incident. Participated, Charlie ranked No. 606 in the AJGA junior boy golfer ranking. Of the 72 players in the field, only one ranks lower. (The organization ranks in the top 2,000 golfers. Is this really necessary?) There are many players in the game that have bound the I-zone plan. Yes, of course, there is a factory that produces golfers because there are factories for tennis players, basketball players, football players and other factories as well as other sports. Charlie Woods is there, and there are hundreds more. He is not the only rich child. But he is the only child of Tiger Woods on the list.

In response to Charlie’s victory, his father did a clever thing. He did what any other winning parents would do. He said nothing and let his son have a moment.

Michael Bamberger welcomes your comments via michael.bamberger@golf.com.