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Originally Posted by Flabbibulin
^^^^ Yikes, he scored a 16 over 86, and that was with preferred lies and carts. Still a long way to go, but perhaps he isn't the next one a lot of people hope he is.
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With a son playing competitive golf around the same age, we're pretty plugged into junior golf. The media has no clue how competitive junior golf his. Charlie is pretty good, but nowhere near the hype for now. His ranking and stats would project him to be headed to a mid tier D1 college. That's really good, but far from someone trending to go pro.
There is another kid in Florida, also a 2027 grad, Miles Russell, who is doing all sorts of crazy Tiger like things right now, and could really be the next phenom. He played in this pre-q as well at a different site today and shot -2 and was just 3 strokes off qualifying.
Also today, Tiger got him into an AJGA Open in NC with a sponsors exemption. AJGA is the top junior tour, and is supposed to be merit based, so it's mildly annoying to see a couple of my kid's friends as alternates in that tournament when they've earned far better status on that tour.
Up until now, he's been playing age and ability appropriate junior tournament s and has done moderately well. It seems Tiger is setting Charlie up for a lot of scrutiny and criticism by putting him in the pga qualifier, and jumping the queue into AJGA events.