Tiger Woods watches son Charlie leave U.S. Junior Amateur)
Tiger Woods watched his son Charlie leave the U.S. Junior Amateur on Tuesday, shooting 10-over 80 in the second round and finishing in 22nd place.
Because of USGA rules that prohibit parents from caddying for their children at the tournament, Woods was merely a cheering spectator. His 15-year-old son was added to the 264-player roster last month but finished last in the standings.
The top 64 players will qualify for the match play that begins Wednesday. The 36-hole championship match will be played on Saturday.
Woods got off to a strong start on Day 2, overcoming the challenge of playing in front of a crowd of about 500 people. Woods was one of the four holes when Arashi stopped matching for more than an hour.
When the match was resumed, he closed the first 9 and played five holes in 8. This was a terrible triple in PAR-4 on the 18th, where there were two steps on the sublime of green, up and returned. He finally managed to keep his fifth shot on the green.
The junior amateur typically draws a few hundred fans at the end of the six-day tournament, but Charlie and his famous father drew a relatively large crowd. Tiger was surrounded by more people, including police officers, and protected him, most other groups on the course.
He had his own gallery. This included fans who take their own photos in one of the largest golf hours in the background. Hundreds of people followed Charlie down the fairways and all the way around the 10th hole, the first hole of the day.
Charlie, soon to be a high school sophomore in Florida, traveled to the tournament with some of the best juniors in the world and shot 71 and under to win the qualifying tournament. Tiger, who was 14 when he qualified for his first US Junior, became the only player to win the tournament three times in a row in the early 1990s.
He joined his son in Detroit this week after matching his highest 36-hole score as a professional at the Open, missing the cut for the third straight time in a major.
