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Charlie Woods Clinches Final Qualifying Spot for 2025 U.S. Junior Amateur

With a sudden-death playoff victory at Eagle Trace Golf Club, he secured a second consecutive berth at the championship in Dallas.

Charlie Woods of the United States plays a bunker shot on the 17th hole on day one of the 76th U.S. Junior Amateur Championship on the North Course at Oakland Hills Country Club on July 22, 2024 in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
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Overview

  • Charlie Woods, 16, earned the fifth and final qualifying position at the Eagle Trace Golf Club qualifier in Coral Springs by defeating Oscar Crowe and Matthew Marigliano in sudden death.
  • After a front-nine bogey-birdie-bogey sequence, Woods made three birdies and avoided bogeys through the 17th hole before a bogey on 18 forced the playoff.
  • The victory extends his streak to two straight U.S. Junior Amateur appearances, with the field set to compete July 21-26 at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas.
  • Earlier this season, Woods captured his first AJGA title at the TaylorMade Junior Invitational and made the cut at the Florida State Amateur.
  • Tiger Woods was on hand at Eagle Trace to support his son, echoing his own record three-peat success in the U.S. Junior Amateur in the early 1990s.