December 17, 2020 | BY AAGD STAFF
This weekend at the PNC Championship Team Woods will feature two father-son duos that will keep fans captivated.
Tiger Woods will make his tournament debut alongside his 11-year-old son, Charlie, while Woods’ caddie, Joe LaCava, will have his son, 22-year-old Joe Jr., caddie for the younger Woods in the 36-hole team event at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando, Florida.
LaCava told Golf Digest, “About a month ago Tiger approached me and said, ‘I’m thinking of playing the PNC Championship with Charlie.’ I was so jacked up. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?’ because I thought it was probably a year or two away,” the elder LaCava responded.
“He was so excited. Charlie caught the golf bug this year. He’s been playing a ton of golf, practicing, working at it, and was psyched to play. Tiger was kind enough to ask me to ask Joe to caddie for Charlie so we could have a father-son caddie duo and father-son player duo. So, we’re going to have a good weekend.”
Joe Jr. attends James Madison as a senior and last year he and his father won the Connecticut Father-Son Net Tournament. This summer, young Charlie Woods has won multiple junior golf events in Florida, but at the PNC Championship, this will be his first time competing in front of millions of television viewers when the practice round begins on Friday. Saturday and Sunday will be the actual tournament.
Both duos expect to have a great time at the Championship “We’re going to have fun with it and keep it pretty casual,” Joe Sr. said to Golf Digest. “It’s going to be a fun, great event. Charlie is very competitive, just like the old man. We’re going to be very competitive out there but at the same time it’s going to be a nice, enjoyable weekend.”
