Charlie Woods is ready to make his United States Golf Association Championship debut in Michigan, and we are live tracking every hole with shot and score updates.
Woods is set for an early start Monday in the 2024 U.S. Junior Amateur at iconic Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, teeing off at 8:28 a.m. on the Donald Ross-designed North Course. He is playing alongside Alabama class of 2025 commit Chase Kyes, the No. 8-ranked boys junior according to The Universal Golf Rankings (TUGR) , and Baylor sophomore Davis Ovard, who won the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst No. 2 in June. They will play the more prestigious South Course on Tuesday at 1:48 p.m., as it makes its return to championship golf after a two-year restoration from 2019-21 that changed its entire complexion .
Woods is there with his famous dad, Tiger Woods, following from a short distance: Parents are not allowed to caddie for their child at the event. But Tiger got there Saturday, and walked with him during a Sunday practice round on the South Course.
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Charlie Woods is an underdog at 15 years old and the No. 763-ranked junior on TUGR . The 264-player field is competing over 36 holes of stroke play to determine the top 64 who advance to match play on the South Course, starting Wednesday morning. It will take five match play wins just to reach Saturday's daunting 36-hole final, with an exemption into the 2025 U.S. Open at Oakmont going to the victor.
The North Course, opened in 1923, will play around 6,808 yards as a par-70, and is 500 yards shorter than the South Course.
Follow live updates from the hollowed Oakland Hills grounds with our Charlie Woods shot and score tracker for the U.S. Junior Amateur first round below.
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Woods finds the left side of the fairway with a long iron off the tee on the dogleg right first hole. He stuck his approach to about 30 feet and two-putted from there to start his championship week with a par.
Score: Even-par.
He returned to the iron off the tee and played down the left side of the fairway on the second near the trio of bunkers. Woods' approach shot left him with a birdie putt about 15 to 20 feet from the hole. He pushed the birdie putt just left and tapped in for par.
Score: Even-par.
Woods pulled out his driver for the first time and found the left side of the fairway after a drive that was in the 300-yard range on the hole playing over 400 yards. His iron shot into the green ended up about 10-12 feet from the hole for birdie. He had too much speed on his birdie putt, putting it past and leaving himself with a 5-foot tester for par, which he sank to stay even.
Score: Even-par.
The 200-yard par-3 fourth hole has bunkers guarding the green on the front, back and left. Woods missed the green but avoided sand by missing right into the greenside rough. He barely got enough on the chip shot to make it back to the green where the ball rolled into a drain hole cover on the edge of the fringe. He got relief and left his 20-foot par putt five feet short, then missed the bogey putt left to finish with a double-bogey.
Score: 2-over.
Woods went right with his driver off the tee and played his second shot from the fairway of the third hole, which runs parallel to the fifth on the right, on the 630-yard dogleg left, adding distance to the hole. He got back on track with a long iron back onto the fifth fairway, leaving him an approach over 120 yards for his third shot. Woods delivered his best shot yet, sticking the approach to three feet which he sank for his first birdie of the tournament.
Score: 1-over.
Woods missed the green left with his tee shot on the par 3 over water on the sixth. His chip shot from about 15 feet off the green left him with a par putt just over five feet. He two-putted from there to finish with a bogey.
Score: 2-over.
Woods opted for driver off the tee and found the right rough on the seventh. He reached the green with his second shot, leaving himself about a 20-foot birdie putt. He missed the birdie putt right but sank the 5-foot par putt.
Score: 2-over.
Woods pulled out driver again on the par-4 eighth, a 479-yard hole, and drove it into the left rough short of the fairway bunker. He stayed left with his approach with a long iron, ending up about 35 yards left of the pin in the rough. He was unsuccessful on his first chip attempt, staying in the greenside rough before succeeding on the second attempt to leave himself with a tap-in putt for bogey.
Score: 3-over.
Hole 9, par-4
Woods pulled out driver again for the par-4 ninth, a 462 yard hole, and drove into the right fairway. He stayed right into the right side bunker of the green about 10 yards out from the hole. He was unsuccessful in his third shot on the ninth hole hitting it over the green into the rough about 15 yards away from the pin. Woods puts his fourth shot onto the green about 15 feet away from the hole. He lay's up and putts close to the hole about 3 feet out, and puts the ball in for double bogey,
Score: 5-over.
Hole 10 par-3
Woods pulls out an iron for the 155 yard par-3 10th hole, and lands on the backside of the green, about 20 feet from the pin. Woods putt breaks left short of the hole, about 4 feet away from the hole. Woods cleans up for par.
Score: 5-over
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This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Charlie Woods shot tracker: Hole-by-hole updates from US Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills
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