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ESPN News Services
Jul 31, 2025, 11:04 PM ET
Charlie Woods remained successful beardown presumption Thursday to gain a spot connected the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team.
The 16-year-old lad of Tiger Woods is tied for 2nd spot astatine the Junior PGA Championship aft shooting a 5-under 66 successful a rain-delayed 3rd circular astatine the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex's Ackerman-Allen Course successful West Lafayette, Indiana.
He stands astatine 12-under 202 for the week.
The players are vying for 2 automatic spots connected the Junior Ryder Cup team, which volition instrumentality connected Team Europe from Sept. 23-25 astatine Nassau Country Club and Bethpage Black successful New York. There is besides 1 captain's pick, though Woods, who is ranked 20th successful the latest American Junior Golf Association rankings, is improbable to beryllium selected for it.
Woods ne'er has competed successful the event.
He said aft his circular that he's hoping to power his ain destiny with a beardown decorativeness Friday.
"It was truthful overmuch fun," Woods said of his 3rd round, according to the Lafayette Journal & Courier. "I had a beauteous amusive spot connected 16, but I conscionable enjoyed being retired there, having amusive and hopefully I person a bully accidental of winning tomorrow."
Woods endured a mixed circular Thursday. He had 3 runs of back-to-back birdies and made 9 birdies altogether, but helium mixed successful 4 bogeys.
"My circular was beauteous up and down, and it gave maine a bosom onslaught retired there," Woods said, per the Journal & Courier. "But 9 birdies is beauteous good. A mates of three-putts, I made a fewer mistakes contiguous but wide beauteous coagulated round. Pretty bully presumption going into tomorrow."
A rising inferior astatine the Benjamin School successful Palm Beach, Florida, Woods won the AJGA's Team TaylorMade Invitational successful May. He missed the chopped astatine the caller U.S. Junior Amateur. He has not yet made a assemblage commitment.
Lunden Esterline leads the Junior PGA astatine 19 nether aft carding a third- circular 66. Esterline, from Andover, Kansas, is simply a 2027 Auburn commit.
Pennson Badgett is tied with Woods successful 2nd aft shooting a 67 connected Thursday. Badgett, from Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, is simply a 2026 Tennessee commit.
Information from Field Level Media was utilized successful this report.
