C. Woods fades at Junior PGA, misses Ryder spot

Charlie Woods changeable a 3-over 74 successful the last circular of the Junior PGA Championship connected Friday, fading retired of contention to unafraid 1 of the 2 qualifying spots for the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team.

Woods, the 16-year-old lad of Tiger, entered the time tied for 2nd with a three-day full of 12-under par astatine Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex's Ackerman-Allen Course successful West Lafayette, Indiana. But helium ne'er caught occurrence successful the last round, going retired successful adjacent par and past stumbling with a bogey connected the 14th and a treble bogey connected the 15th.

He finished tied for ninth astatine 9 under.

Lunden Esterline, a 2027 Auburn perpetrate from Kansas, won the lawsuit going distant astatine 19 under. Along with the title, helium secured 1 of the 2 automatic qualifying spots for the Junior Ryder Cup team. Giuseppe Puebla, who finished astatine 13 under, was awarded the other.

The U.S. volition instrumentality connected Team Europe from Sept. 23-25 astatine Nassau Country Club and Bethpage Black successful New York. Woods is eligible to beryllium selected arsenic the lone captain's prime adjacent week, but arsenic the 20th-ranked subordinate successful the latest American Junior Golf Association rankings, that would beryllium unlikely.

Woods has ne'er competed successful the event.

A rising inferior astatine the Benjamin School successful Palm Beach, Florida, Woods won the AJGA's Team TaylorMade Invitational successful May. He missed the chopped astatine the caller U.S. Junior Amateur.

Also Friday, Asterisk Talley won the girls' Junior PGA rubric by 1 changeable implicit Zoe Cusack.