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When Tiger Woods announced a few weeks ago that he and his 12-year-old son, Charlie, would play in the PNC Championship for the second consecutive year, the news was met with equal parts astonishment and joy.
Astonishment that this man who nearly lost a limb at the beginning of the year was ending it on the course in a real golf tournament: a family scramble with 15 different tee boxes to accommodate the 75-year age range, but a real golf tournament nonetheless. Joy over getting to run it back on what was one of the most delightful two-day stretches of 2020 when Tiger and mini-Tiger made a run at this hotel course in Orlando with a new (albeit silent), “Hello, world.”
Their performance 12 months ago was as unexpected as it was enjoyable. From the outside looking in, it was golf utopia for parents: a father and a son enjoying 18 holes together while repeatedly scaring 60.
In light of the news that Team Woods would tee it up again this December, the video that got shared most often as evidence of this joy was the one in which Charlie mimicked nearly all of Tiger’s mannerisms and idiosyncrasies. Watch it. The similarities will make you gasp.
And if that was true last year, it was even more true this time around as Team Woods shot 57 on Sunday and finished solo second behind John Daly and his son, John Daly II.
NBC ran a cut on Sunday of Tiger and Charlie standing, walking, swinging and twirling. The entire thing was so comically identical that it, again, almost felt like a deep fake. It’s not of course, because this is just what kids do, but it burrows deeper than it normally would because we have watched so much of Tiger’s life play out over the last quarter of a century.
At Thanksgiving last month, I had a conversation with my sister-in-law about my 7-year-old son. She couldn’t believe how our mannerisms and speech cadences were so intertwined. She was astonished that this little…
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