Charlie Woods, Tiger’s Son, Inches Closer To Junior Ryder Cup Automatic Bid

Charlie Woods is successful a beardown position to gain a spot connected nan US Junior Ryder Cup squad arsenic he enters nan last information of nan Junior PGA Championships successful West Lafayette, Indiana.

The 16-year-old boy of Tiger Woods is tied for 2nd spot astatine 12-under-par 202 aft shooting a 5-under 66 astatine nan Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex’s Ackerman-Allen Course connected Thursday.

Lunden Esterline is nan runaway leader astatine 19 nether aft besides carding a third- information 66.

Woods is tied pinch Pennson Badgett, who produced a 67 connected Thursday.

The players are vying for 2 automatic spots connected nan Junior Ryder Cup team, which will spell to nan apical 2 finishers this week. There is besides 1 captain’s pick, though Woods is apt not successful statement to beryllium selected for it.

Charlie Woods hits his changeable connected nan sixth spread during nan 3rd information of nan 2025 Junior PGA Championship astatine Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex. Photograph: Ryan Lochhead/PGA of America/Getty Images

The tournament’s first and 3rd rounds were played astatine nan par-71 Ackerman-Allen Course. The 2nd information was played astatine nan par-72 Kampen-Cosler Course.

Woods endured an up-and-down 3rd round. He had 3 runs of back-to-back birdies and made 9 birdies altogether, but he mixed successful 4 bogeys.

A rising inferior astatine nan Benjamin School successful Palm Beach, Florida, Woods won nan AJGA’s Team TaylorMade Invitational successful May. He has not yet made a assemblage commitment.

Esterline, from Andover, Kansas, is simply a 2027 Auburn commit.

Badgett, from Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, is simply a 2026 Tennessee commit.

Ayden Fynaut of Fresno, California; Tyler Mawhinney of Fleming Island, Florida; and Zenghao Hou of China are tied for 4th spot astatine 11 under. Sam Carraher of Crown Point, Indiana, sits unsocial successful seventh astatine 10 under.