‘Surreal’: Charlie Woods’ playing partner dunks a hole-in-one … with Tiger watching!

Have a day Jake Sherwin.

The 30-year-old from Estero, Fla., was paired with Charlie Woods Saturday during the third round of the 108th Florida Amateur at BallenIsles Country Club in Palm Beach Gardens, when something Sherwin never could’ve dreamed of happened.
Playing the 113-yard, par-3 fourth hole on the East Course, playing partner Pavel Tsar hit his shot to two feet. Woods, playing second, hit his to four feet. Sherwin joked that there was no room up there for him to hit his shot.

“You could put it in the hole,” Woods told Sherwin.

And that’s exactly what he did, the ball taking only one hop before finding the bottom of the cup.

Obviously, the ace is exciting, and the story of how Sherwin hit it inside his two playing partners is fun but, to put it all over the top, Charlie’s father, Tiger Woods, was watching.

“I threw my hat down, yelled a little bit and realized Tiger was watching,” Sherwin told the Florida State Golf Association.

“It was such a surreal moment going over to pick the ball up and taking the picture with Tiger,” Sherwin continued. “It is a moment I am going to remember for the rest of my life. To be able to get a hole-in-one in front of Tiger Woods is just something you dream about, and sure enough, I lived it.”

Tiger and Jake took a photo to commemorate the moment, but it may not have even been Sherwin’s best shot of the week. As he noted afterward, he recorded an albatross-2 the day earlier on the par-5 seventh hole.

Sherwin graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University in 2016, where he was a standout player on the golf team. He is now a senior vice president at an insurance agency in Estero. He won the Florida Mid-Amateur last year by three shots in Miami.

Sherwin shot 78-68-73-75 to tie for 35th place at six over par. Charlie Woods shot 74-72-77-83 to tie for 66th place at 18 over. Boca Raton’s Reed Greyserman topped Arth Sinha on the first extra playoff hole to win the championship. Both men shot seven-under-par total for the week.