Charlie Woods walked off the 18th green at PGA Frisco on Wednesday evening with a scorecard that read like relief. Thirteen pars, two birdies, one lone bogey. The kind of round a teenager plays when he needs it most and gets it. His group had barely cleared the ropes before the talk around Fields Ranch turned to the next round, to a leaderboard he’d just fought his way back onto. By Thursday, that talk was over.
The story of Charlie Woods’ Junior PGA Championship week finished with a 77. It’s becoming a familiar pattern for Woods. He opened at PGA Frisco’s Fields Ranch East with a 3-over 75, tied for 53rd and seven shots behind American Kailer Stone’s opening 68. He answered with a bogey-free stretch of 13 pars and two birdies for a 2-under 70 on the West Course, squeezing inside the 36-hole cut by two shots at 1-over 145, tied for 46th.
However, in the third round, Woods carded three birdies but also dropped shots on seven holes. He had six bogeys and a double en route to a 5-over round. The lethal blow came on the back nine…