Bernhard and Jason Langer won the PNC Championship in dramatic fashion. Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images The Woods family broke a long drought Sunday at the PNC Championship, but the most famous family in golf is still searching for the winner’s circle. On the par-3 hole at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Charlie Woods smoothed a 7-iron from 176 yards that took one hop and rolled right into the cup for an ace .
The golf world went wild as the younger Woods accomplished something his 15-time major-winning father, Tiger Woods, hadn’t done in competition in 26 years, during his third year on the PGA Tour. It was Charlie’s first hole-in-one in his entire golf career at the same event where he made his first career eagle four years ago in 2020. Team Woods kept rolling after that.
The first-round co-leaders after a 59 Saturday, kept making birdies. They finished with a 57 Sunday and a record-setting 36-hole score of 28 under, but in the end it wasn’t enough. Team Bernhard and Jason Langer also finished at the same score and Bernhard, the last to putt in the first playoff hole, just curled in an eagle putt to beat the Woods’ and win their second straight PNC Championship.
Charlie’s hole-in-one and the Langer’s win were part of a wild final round at the PGA Tour Champions-sanctioned event that was dubbed the “greatest day in PNC Championship history” by NBC’s Dan Hicks. Shortly after Charlie’s ace, Paddy Harington, son of three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, also made a.