Tiger Woods supports son Charlie, 15, in US Junior Amateur Championship after Open nightmare

Tiger Woods was spotted rooting for his 15-year-old Charlie astatine nan US Junior Amateur Championship aft failing to make nan trim astatine the Open, though he wasn't allowed to caddie for his son.

The 48-year-old was successful Bloomfield Township, Michigan, connected Monday for nan commencement of nan tournament, arsenic he watched Charlie tee off. The teen began nan time pinch 3 consecutive pars, according to reports. 

Tiger - a 15-time awesome victor - walked pinch ample galleries connected manus to watch his son, arsenic he's not permitted to caddie owed to a circumstantial norm by nan US Golf Association (USGA).

The norm states that 'a subordinate must not usage a parent, step-parent, aliases guardian arsenic a caddie during qualifying aliases nan Championship proper.' 

Therefore, Charlie's teammate Luke Wise will grip container duties astatine nan ticketless event.

Tiger, a nine-time USGA champion, won 3 consecutive US Junior titles, from 1991 to 1993, and reached nan semifinals successful his debut arsenic a 14-year-old successful 1990. 

Charlie, however, is making his USGA title debut this year. So far, it is nan biggest tourney of his young career. 

Charlie, a 2027 recruit, is classed No. 817 successful nan Junior Golf Scoreboard rankings, meaning it will beryllium gangly bid for him to suffice for nan tournament's 64-play match-play portion, which starts connected Wednesday pursuing 2 rounds of changeable play. 

Nonetheless, Charlie is adamant to beryllium himself connected nan course.

'Some of nan things that happened to this mediocre kid, sometimes it's conscionable unfair,' Charlie's high-school coach, Tony Harbeck of The Benjamin School successful Palm Beach, Florida, told The Detroit Free Press past week. 

He added: 'If you've watched Tiger play, you cognize nan throngs of group that travel him. If you were opinionated connected a gangly structure aliases deck, and you could spot nan full play course, you tin ever show wherever Tiger was precisely by nan magnitude of people. 

'Charlie's nan nonstop aforesaid way. You tin show wherever Charlie is because he'll person 30 aliases 40 group pursuing him.'

Jaxon Bandelier - 1 of Charlie's competitors - echoed akin sentiment to nan teen's coach, arsenic he described nan younger Woods arsenic a 'normal kid' during a believe information connected Saturday.

'He's sewage a really bully swing, conscionable didn't really onslaught nan shot excessively good today,' Bandelier added, referring to Charlie. 'But, I mean, obviously, you've sewage a ton of group retired present watching him, moreover successful nan fall.'