Lunatic Fans Hound Charlie Woods During His PGA Tour Pre-Qualifier, Reportedly Try To Steal His Ball
Charlie Woods, Tiger Woods' 15-year-old son, shot an 86 to tie for 110th in Thursday's pre-qualifier for the Cognizant Classic, next week's PGA Tour event. While it's clear that his game was nowhere near the level it needed to be to compete in the qualifier, the group of fans that bombarded Charlie during his round certainly didn't help his cause either.
The first few holes of the round went smoothly for Woods, but when his struggles began, the fans in attendance lost all sense of decency or reality.
According to the Palm Beach Post, some fans attempted to steal Woods' golf ball after he hit his tee shot out of bounds on the fifth hole. Technically, that ball serves no purpose, but in no way is it proper etiquette to go pick up a golf ball someone just hit out of bounds.
Running over to try and get the ball so you could tell the story ‘I got the golf ball Charlie Woods hit out of bounds on the fifth hole of a pre-qualifier when he was 15’ is bizarre behavior.
Things only got worse from there.
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Given that there were no ropes to keep fans off of the actual golf course, some of the more than 50 fans took it upon themselves to walk next to Woods in the fairway ignoring the undoubtedly understaffed tournament staffer's request to keep their distance.
One fan apparently asked an official, "Who are you, the fire marshal?"
While things had already very much crossed the line, the lunatic behavior peaked as Woods, who had a two-man security team with him, walked off of the 12th green.
As he was walking, a woman approached him with a pen and a copy of Tiger's well-known book, "How I Play Golf," and demanded Charlie to sign it.
After an official told her that autographs weren't allowed, she reportedly shushed at them and yelled "I live here."
If that isn't some peak, middle-aged South Florida woman behavior, I'm not sure what is.
Sadly, this is just a reminder that some people suck.