On Thursday, 15-year-old Charlie Woods, son of 15-time major champion Tiger Woods, shot 16-over 86 in a pre-qualifying round for the Cognizant Classic in the Palm Beaches.
🚨#NEWS: According to the Palm Beach Post, a large gallery of fans became unruly while following Charlie Woods in Hobe Sound today:
-Fans headed into the bushes “hoping to grab a “souvenir” after Charlie’s ball went missing
-Fans ignored requests from officials and then got… pic.twitter.com/J33xPa5hEA
— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) February 23, 2024
Held at Lost Lake Golf Club, Woods’ first out-of-bounds drive went flying wide-right toward the rough on No. 5, and then several fans followed hoping for a souvenir from the bushes.
The following fan seemingly walked close to Woods on the fairway, even ignoring repeated requests from tournament officials to stay on the cart path. A fan even responded by asking one official, “Who are you? The fire marshal?”
When Woods headed for the back nine, the number of fans had increased to more than 50 fans as he headed for the back nine.
Including one such grandmother who pulled her granddaughter out of school to join a pack of 50 fans on the back 9 in the hope of Woods noticing her.
The scene seems hard to control as after Woods left the 12th green, another fan worth mentioning approached with a pen and a copy of Tiger’s book, “How I Play Golf” demanding Charlie sign the book.
In the following scene, an official told the fan it would not be allowed, but a commotion of shushes and yells, including “I live here,” as Woods teed off on No. 13.
Now at the end of his 18-hole qualifier at the Lost Lake Golf Club, Woods jokingly, “That was some round, huh?” to his caddie, Palm Beach Gardens High golfer Jacob “J.J.” Kutner.
