"From Earl to Tiger to Charlie, how golf is passed down from Woods to Woods"
/As this weekend’s PNC Challenge nears and Tiger Woods tees up with his 11-year-old son Charlie, Bob Harig at ESPN.com reminds of the parenting and golf mentoring approach of Earl Woods vs what we know so far from Tiger.
Sure, Tiger could turn into one of those parents but it’s hard to see this happening…
As far as we know, Charlie has no "team'' around him at this point other than his dad. But early on, Earl developed the concept of Team Tiger, and it included his first coach, Rudy Duran, and Jay Brunza, a Navy captain and clinical psychologist who often caddied for Tiger but also helped him with the mental side of the game.
One other fun component to the weekend parent/grandparent-child-stepchild-third cousin gathering of top players: Joe LaCava Jr. will be on the bag for young Charlie, reports GolfDigest.com’s Daniel Rapaport.