Charlie Woods, son of Tiger, draws crowds but misses cut at US Junior Amateur

Tiger Woods watched his son, Charlie, shoot a 10-over 80 on Tuesday and miss the cut at 22 over through two rounds at the US Junior Amateur.The 15-year-old Woods, who earned a spot in the 264-player field last month, finished near the bottom of the pack. The top 64 players advance to match play, which begins on Wednesday.Woods got off to a solid start on Tuesday, handling the challenge of teeing off in front of a crowd of around 500 people. But his game is clearly still a work in progress. Woods was one-over through four holes when a storm stopped play for more than an hour. When play resumed, he closed the front nine by playing five holes in eight over, including a triple bogey on the par-four 18th, where he had two pitches land on an elevated green only to roll back down the hill. He finally got his fifth shot to stay on the green.The US Junior Amateur usually draws a few hundred fans toward the end of the six-day tournament, but Charlie and his famous father attracted a relatively large crowd. Tiger was surrounded by more people, including police officers, protecting him than were following most of the other groups on the course. Hundreds of people walked behind Charlie on the fairway, and surrounded the 10th green, his first hole of the day.Charlie, who will soon start his sophomore year of high school in Florida, played his way into the tournament with many of world’s top juniors by shooting a one-under 71 to win his qualifier.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 at the tourament 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 majorTeams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see. Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science. Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.Bad actors spreading disinformation online to undermine democracy. ***But we have something powerful on our side. We’ve got you. The Guardian is funded by readers, like you in Nigeria, and the only person who decides what we publish is our editor. If you want to join us in our mission to share independent, global journalism to the world, we’d love to have you on side