Tiger Woods’ children Sam and Charlie make a rare appearance at a golf tournament
Tiger Woods brought his kids to work while playing the 2023 PNC Championship in Orlando on Saturday, December 16.
“For the first time, Sam Woods caddies for her dad today ❤️,” read a post on the Official PGA Tour Instagram account which revealed that the 16-year-old helped her father choose a club.
Meanwhile, son Charlie, 14, played alongside his father for the third year in a row. The PNC Championship, formerly known as the Father/Son Tournament, allows professional golfers to play with a family member. This marks the first time Woods’ eldest daughter has appeared during the game.
“Sam was fantastic,” Wood told reporters during the game CBS Sports. “This is the first time she’s ever done this, so it couldn’t have been more special for all of us.”
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He added: “To have both of my kids on the ropes in this way and participating and playing and being a part of the game of golf in this way, it couldn’t have been more special to me, and I know that we do this in a great way. at home a lot, sewing each other and having a great time. But it was even more special to do it in a tournament like this.”
Even though there is one day left in the tournament, Charlie and his father were not happy with their performance so far.
“I hit the ball really well today,” Charlie said. “I didn’t miss a fairway and was still able to shoot 8-under. We’re just bad at putting.”
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His father agreed: “That’s exactly what happened.”
Woods shares Sam and Charlie with ex-wife Elin Nordegren. The exes split in 2009 after six years of marriage, amid the golfer’s affairs with multiple women. He sought treatment for sex addiction amid the scandal.
Several years after the fraud scandal, Woods said TIME in December 2015 that he and Nordegren were close friends and co-parents. “It’s fantastic to have the relationship I have with her now,” he said. “We can pick up the phone and we talk to each other all the time. … She talks to me about her life, I talk to her about my life. We try to help each other on all occasions. And we work through it with the kids, the parenting program. She is now one of my best friends, and it is all because of my children.”
A source said this exclusively We weekly in March that the couple was able to overcome the pain of their divorce because they put the children first.
“Tiger and Elin are really in a great place,” the insider said Us. “He’s so great with the kids, and that’s really what led her to have a friendship with Tiger.”
Nordegren has moved on as a former football professional Jordan Cameron. They welcomed son Arthur in October 2019. (The former Miami Dolphins player is also father of son Tristan from a previous relationship.)