Woods, but not Tiger. The cover this time his son Charlie takes it. Eleven years old, a bright talent. Like father, maybe like son. Together, for now, they have begun to amaze. Charlie and Tiger (who turns 45 on December 30) have in fact scored the PNC Championship with their shots, a 36-hole pair competition in which 20 champions, winners of majors or major tournaments, team up with a relative on the course of the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club (par 72), in Orlando, Florida. DNA from champions. The little Woods in hole 3 has scored an eagle, a spectacular shot, played by a magician who is going around the world on social media. “It made me proud,” said the 14 major winner at the end of the day.
🏆 @ JustinThomas34 dominates
💪 Charlie Woods does vintage fist pump
🎯 Lee Trevino makes a runBest from Sunday at @PNCchampionship. pic.twitter.com/yDrLXIC8f0
— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) December 21, 2020
The amazing thing is that Charlie Axel has only seen his father play (and win) on the tablet. He and his sister Sam Alexis – jokingly – have always said that they consider their father a “Youtube golfer”. Charlie was born in February 2009. In November, his father Tiger ended up in the darkest pit of his life, after the car accident with his wife Elin Nordgreen who discovered his sex addiction. Since then it was just trouble. The back injury kept him away from the green for a long time. And Tiger Woods – between falls and attempts at rebirth – has never been the same again. Now – with the baton he could pass on to his son – the ancient question arises again: is talent a question of DNA?
The history of sport actually tells us and repeats us every day that DNA is not a destiny, but one of the many possibilities. We also know – however – that every time in sport we talk about fathers and sons; you enter a sentimental centrifuge that unhinges logic and affectionately falsifies reality. And if it is true that it is the identity card that marks the personal distancing, to define the qualitative one we have to wait for Time to do its job and for the curriculum to take shape.
Famous fathers and sons, then. The starlet of Italian athletics – Larissa Iapichino – is the daughter of the best Italian long-distance player in history, Fiona May. Next: Michael and Mick Schumacher, a legend and a promise of Formula 1. Jacques Villeneuve succeeded – in 1997 – what his father Gilles (who died on the track in 1982) had not succeeded in: winning an F1 World Championship.
The fate of the Rosberg, both capable of triumphing: Keke in 1982 over Williams and his son Nico in Mercedes in 2016. When he won he said: “I equaled my father, now I can stop.” And he retired from racing. In basketball Romeo and Brian Sacchetti – coach and player – together won a Scudetto in Sassari in 2015.
Children who surpass fathers: Valentino Rossi son of Graziano, good MotoGP rider in the 80s; as well as Paolo son of Cesare Maldini, flags of Milan who – the genealogical hotel does not lie – can now also count on the 19 year old Daniel. The Neverending Story.
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