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Tiger Woods’ son Charlie says ‘I’m broke’ as dad reminds him of unwritten golf rule

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Sunday might have been expensive for 15-year-old Charlie Woods.

Tiger and Sam Woods were both quick to remind Charlie he owed people drinks. (Image: Getty)

Charlie Woods pleaded “I’m broke” to dad Tiger after notching his first career hole-in-one at the PNC Championship. Team Woods put in an impressive display over the 36 holes, finishing 28 under par overall.

That was enough to see them finish in joint first with Bernhard and Jason Langer, meaning a play-off with the defending champions.

It was the Germans who then sealed glory with an eagle at the first extra hole, but there were still plenty of positives for the Americans to reflect on.

Charlie lit up the second round with an ace on the 176-yard par three fourth in Orlando. His father, long renowned for his focus and steely gaze on the course, didn’t hide his delight by smiling broadly and hugging his son on the tee afterwards.

But he was also quick to remind the 15-year-old of one of the game’s oldest traditions. A player who hits a hole-in-one is then expected to buy a drink afterwards for all players who were out on the course at the time.

“You’re buying for everyone out here,” Woods told the youngster. However, Charlie appeared anything but keen to put his hand in his pocket. “I’m not buying,” he replied. “I’m broke”

He didn’t get any sympathy from sister Sam though, who was caddying for the duo. “You’re buying,” she told him. Tiger then continued: “You’re buying. He has to buy. That’s protocol for making a hole-in-one. Round on you bud.”

The jibes from Woods Snr didn’t end there. After the competition was over, the 15-time major champion was also quick to remind his son he was nine years younger when he first notched a hole-in-one.

“It was awesome, don’t get me wrong,” he said, when asked of his son’s achievement. “But he’s 15…it’s about time. I had my first ace aged six.”

However, the all-time great did laud his latest family experience on the course, despite Team Woods narrowly missing out on silverware. “For us to have that experience together, I know we didn’t win, but it was the fact that we competed.

“No one really made a mistake out there, we had to earn it and that’s what you want to have. Hats off to the Langers — they played amazing.”

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Tiger Woods had controversial reason for sacking his ludicrously rich golf caddie

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Steve Williams and Tiger Woods

Steve Williams became one of the most recognisable caddies in the history of golf during his time with Woods, before being sacked by the 15-time major winner.

Steve Williams, who was Tiger Woods’ caddie during the peak of his success, was famously dismissed for temporarily switching to another player. The Kiwi golfing caddie supported Woods on various challenging courses around the globe between 1999 and 2011, a pivotal aid to Woods’s remarkable collection of 15 major career victories and record 82 PGA Tour titles – nine more than golfing titan Jack Nicklaus.

Thanks to this unparalleled run of victories, Williams accumulated an estimated net worth of £15.7million ($20m), chiefly due to his wage packet and a fraction of Woods’ competition earnings. With Williams accompanying him, Woods clinched 64 of his tour triumphs, 13 of his 15 majors, bagged the Tour Player of the Year award nine times, and secured a lofty 281-week tenure as World No. 1 from June 2005 to October 2010.

However, this prosperous period ended abruptly for Williams, who has previously divulged why Woods relieved him of his duties. In a 2021 documentary on Woods, Williams said: “After the Masters, Tiger took a little bit of a break away from the game just to get his mind fresh as well as to deal with some niggling injuries. As a caddie of Tiger Woods and a great friend of his, I wanted to deeply respect what he was going through but I still didn’t know when he would be playing again.”

He went on: “I was just expecting a phone call at any moment to say ‘I’m playing again next week, get your s*** together and get over here’. There was a lot of uncertainty. So when a friend I had caddied for before called me and asked me if I could caddie for him, I ran that by Tiger and he said absolutely no problem.”

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REU8512935 TIGER WOODS AND NEW CADDY STEVE WILLIAMS, 1999-03-20 (photo); (add.info.: Tiger Woods stands with his caddy Steve Williams (L) on the 10th fairway at the Bay Hill Invitational in Orlando, Florida March 20. Woods just made the cut for the third round, giving him a streak of having made 25 consecutive tournaments cuts.
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However, the circumstances soon changed with Woods taking a U-turn, allegedly having someone call Williams to announce that the caddie’s professional services would be terminated if he went ahead to serve another player. Recalling the event, Williams said: “But a couple of days before the tournament, Tiger changed his mind.

“He had his agent call and he said ‘If you go and caddie for your friend, that will be the end of your time caddying for Tiger’. I thought there was no way the guy is going to fire me. But a couple of days after the tournament I got the phone call to say our time had ended. I believe in my own heart I gave 100 per cent when I was caddying for Tiger the entire time I was with him and for him to fire me over that kind of thing. I found that pretty unusual.”

It was Adam Scott that Williams was serving at the 2011 US Open as an interim during Woods’ absence, but the caddie believes he lost more than just a professional relationship in that tournament. He added: “When he fired me, I thought he was firing me as a golf caddie and not as a friend.

“Tiger was the best man at my wedding, I didn’t think we’d have no communication for the rest of our lives. That just didn’t even enter my mind. To this day I find that a hard pill to swallow. Someone you spend 13 years with, with all your time and all your effort, and the guy can’t even speak to you.”

After the split, Williams worked with Scott until 2017 before briefly caddying for Jason Day in 2019. He joined forces with Scott again between 2022 and 2023. Meanwhile, Woods hasn’t clinched a major title since his 2019 Masters victory.

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