When the son of the world’s greatest golfer meets the granddaughter of the most powerful man in the world, there is no other golf event that holds up. Charlie Woods and Kai Trump will play the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley, one of the most important youth competitions in the United States. Tiger Woods’ son and Donald Trump’s granddaughter will try to snatch the title from the defending champions, namely Giovanni Binaghi from Milan and the American Asterisk Talley.
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The meeting between the heirs of two number ones like Tiger Woods and Donald Trump will take place in the middle of next month, at the Sage Valley Golf Club in Graniteville, South Carolina. The Junior Invitational is a must for any amateur with the dream of becoming a professional. Scottie Scheffler (now number one in the world and indicated as Tiger’s heir) played and won it, along with Chilean Joaquin Niemann (now star of LIV Golf) and Anna Davis (winner of an Augusta National Women’s Amateur).
A jacket up for grabs, along the lines of what happens among the greats at the Masters. If in Georgia the winner wears a green, in Graniteville boys and girls compete for the golden jacket. The defending champions are invited by right: this year Giovanni Binaghi and the golfer named Asterisk Talley. The latter is at the top of the women’s ranking of the American Junior Golf Association, the Italian is twelfth in the men’s.
Having two stars like that means a media echo for the Junior Invitational, a return that goes far beyond the world of golf.
Charlie Woods is 16 years old and is the second son of Tiger and Elin Nordegren, the ex-wife of the phenomenon. From his father he inherited the love for bags and clubs, a passion that has taken him around Florida. A few tournaments in the trophy cabinet.
At the end of each year, Charlie and Tiger play an exhibition reserved for fathers and sons or grandfathers and grandsons, the PNC Championship. So far, the two Woods have not yet lifted the trophy, limiting themselves to two second places (also in 2024).
Born in 2007, Kai Trump is the daughter of Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Haydon. She is the eldest of five siblings, she is a third-year student at the Benjamin School in Palm Beach and has an influence on her grandfather from whom she inherited her love for golf.
Kai Trump has an Instagram account with 1.7 million followers. A few weeks ago, she announced that she had signed an endorsement deal with TaylorMade despite her amateur status not allowing it.
She recently played a Pro Am with Rory McIlroy at Torrey Pines, before a PGA Tour event, the Genesis Invitational. Then she was photographed with Tiger Woods.
The 17-year-old also took part in the 2024 election campaign, giving a speech at the Republican convention in Milwaukee. “What is my grandfather Donald Trump like? Normal,” she said from the stage.
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