Charlie Woods, the son of 15-time main champion Tiger Woods, has verbally dedicated to play golf at Florida State College and might be a member of the 2027 freshman class.
Woods, a junior at Benjamin Faculty in Palm Seaside, Fla., skyrocketed to No. 21 within the Rolex American Junior Golf Affiliation rankings after profitable the Crew TaylorMade Invitational final Might with a 54-hole whole of 15-under 201. He was ranked 604th earlier than profitable his first AJGA victory.
He tied for ninth place on the Boys Junior PGA Championship in July and tied for 18th on the Rolex Match of Champions in November. Woods then helped Benjamin Faculty win the Florida Excessive Faculty Athletic Affiliation Class A state title in November with a 4-under 68 within the closing spherical.
By selecting the Seminoles, Charlie Woods selected to not observe within the footsteps of his well-known father, who performed two seasons at Stanford College earlier than turning professional in August 1996.
Tiger Woods’ daughter Sam is a freshman at Stanford College.
“The recruiting course of has modified so much,” Tiger Woods stated on the Hero World Problem in December. “Now we have now cell telephones, however we did not have cell telephones. We’d have written letters that might arrive within the mailbox. It makes all of the distinction in how shortly coaches can talk with households and the gamers they’re attempting to scout.
“It is only a completely different world. It is not that it is higher or worse, it is simply completely different.”
Seminoles coach Trey Jones, who’s coming into his twenty third season, additionally has a dedication from Myles Russell of Jacksonville Seaside, Florida, who’s ranked No. 1 within the Rolex AJGA rankings.
Florida State College was a runner-up on the 2024 NCAAs, the place PGA Tour golfer Luke Clanton was a finalist for the Fred Haskins Award (Division I) and Jack Nicklaus Award (Cross-Division), that are given to the nation’s prime collegiate golfers.
Jones additionally coached five-time main champion Brooks Koepka and PGA Tour member Daniel Berger.
