Tiger Woods watches 15-year-old son Charlie shoot a 12-over 82 in US Junior Amateur at Oakland Hills

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of Tiger Woods, covered his face with his cap after shaking hands with his playing partners on the 18th green at the Oakland Hills North Course.

Woods shot a 12-over 82 on Monday in the U.S. Junior Amateur, a tournament he played his way into.

“He still qualified,” Tiger Woods said to his son's caddie after the rough round.

“That's what I keep telling him,” caddie Luke Wise said.

Woods earned a spot in the field of top juniors from around the world when he shot a 1-under 71 to win his qualifier last month in Coral Springs, Florida.

He will have to have quite a turnaround Tuesday on the Oakland Hills South Course, which Ben Hogan called “The Monster,” to be among the low 64 scorers from a field of 264 players from 40 states and 35 countries.

Charlie Woods is the only one in the world who knows what it's like to be the son of Tiger Woods, and now he's fully aware of what it's like to compete with all eyes on him.

At an event that usually draws a few hundred people for the championship match, about 100 were waiting on the first tee to see Charlie play while his dad watched, and at least that many spectators followed them for hours.

Oakland Hills had six members assigned to assist with crowd control. That wasn't enough, and 10 more men were dispatched to hold ropes to give the players — and Tiger — some space.

After Charlie hit his tee shot on the seventh hole and left behind his tee, adorned with a palm tree, a fan took it out of the ground to keep as a memento.

“I feel like he's feeling pressure,” said 35-year-old John Pinch of Warren, Michigan. “If his dad could talk to him, he would probably try to get him to settle down.

"You can tell he's really down on himself.”

Charlie was frustrated and let it show, slamming and swinging clubs into the ground after errant shots and shaking his head from side to side.

His father was relatively helpless because rules prevent parents from coaching their children during the tournament.

After a brief exchange prior to the round on the practice green, Tiger didn’t say a word to his son and didn’t appear to even make eye contact as he watched from afar while surrounded by police officers — at least one of whom snapped photos — and security personnel.

Without a doubt, Tiger wished his son could hear him on the 181-yard, par-3 fourth.

A rules official gave Charlie relief because his ball landed on a metal cap on the right side of the green.

“He gets a club length,” Tiger said, standing out of earshot of his son.

Tiger wanted his son to place his ball to the left, but Charlie elected to take relief to the right.

“No, no, no,” Tiger muttered to himself. “Go the other way.”

Charlie ended up with his first of five double bogeys at No. 4 to go with four bogeys and two birdies — on both of the par 5s.

He was wild off the tee — often missing to the right — came up short on a series of flop shots out of thick rough and sailed some approaches over greens.

Tiger was 14 when he qualified for his first U.S. Junior and reached the semifinals. He won his first U.S. Junior a year later and went on to become the only player to win the tournament three times in a row.

Tiger traveled to suburban Detroit from Scotland after matching his highest 36-hole score as a professional at the British Open, missing the cut for the third straight time in a major.

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Charlie Woods walks off the 18th green during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Charlie Woods, left, looks to his father Tiger Woods after finishing the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Charlie Woods shakes hands with Davis Ovard on the 18th green during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Charlie Woods walks off the 18th green during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Charlie Woods pauses on the 14th green during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Charlie Woods eyes his putt on the 18th green during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Tiger Woods, center, watches his son Charlie Woods play during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Charlie Woods hits onto the 17th green during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Tiger Woods watches his son Charlie Woods play during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Charlie Woods drives off the 18th tee during the first round of stroke play of the U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, Monday, July 22, 2024, in Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

PHOENIX (AP) — Divorce records for Arizona Democratic Senate candidate Ruben Gallego and his ex-wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, were made public Thursday after an Arizona court unsealed most of the seven-year-old case file.

The records offer little insight into the high-profile marriage or the reasons it fell apart. There are no allegations of abuse or infidelity that could have upended Arizona's closely watched Senate race, one of a handful that will determine control of the upper chamber of Congress.

The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative news site, petitioned to release the records, which Ruben and Kate Gallego both opposed, saying they wanted to protect their child's safety and privacy. They were unsealed a day after the Arizona Supreme Court declined the Gallegos' request for an emergency order keeping them private.

GOP nominee Kari Lake has hyped the release of the records as part of a broader attack on Ruben Gallego's character, suggesting in interviews and social media posts that they would be a “massive story" and that the Gallegos' fight to keep the record sealed showed they had something big to hide.

“I hope everybody who says they're going to vote for him will hold off until we get the details about why he ran off on his wife when she was nine months pregnant," she said on KTAR-FM this week, adding, “We don't know if it was spousal abuse.”

The divorce decree, signed by both Gallegos, includes a declaration that “the parties acknowledge and agree that there was no domestic violence during the marriage or that significant domestic violence did not occur."

In a joint statement Thursday, the Gallegos blasted Lake for hyping the divorce and said they have always prioritized the interests of their son, who is now 7.

“We demand an apology from Kari Lake for lying about our family and the circumstances of our divorce,” the statement said. “She will stop at nothing to score a cheap political point — even if it means endangering the privacy and well-being of our young son."

Caroline Wren, a senior adviser to Lake, said Lake had “nothing to do with this lawsuit."

“It’s bizarre that Ruben Gallego would demand an apology from Kari Lake for his appalling behavior,” Wren said, questioning how Gallego could claim he wants to protect women after divorcing his pregnant wife.

The divorce file spells out the shared parenting and custody plan for their son, who was born while the divorce case was pending, and how the couple’s assets would be divided, but most of those details were redacted from the publicly released records.

The case was finalized four months after it was filed without any indication of wrangling over assets or custody.

Yavapai County judge John Napper, who ordered the case unsealed, predicted after reviewing the file that “everyone’s going to be rather deflated.” He called it “one of the most garden variety divorce files I have ever seen.”

The breakup of the Gallego marriage shortly before the birth of their first child shocked the Arizona political community when it was announced in 2016. Speculation about the reasons and the secrecy surrounding the divorce records has been one of the biggest challenges Ruben Gallego has confronted in his Senate campaign.

Both Gallegos have called their separation a “private matter" and have said little publicly about it, though Ruben Gallego, a retired U.S. Marine, has suggested post-traumatic stress disorder he got from a deployment to Iraq contributed.

Kate Gallego endorsed her ex-husband’s Senate campaign last year, and they routinely appear together in public, often with their son.

The Gallegos went to extraordinary lengths to keep the records private. Ruben Gallego filed the petition for divorce in Yavapai County, 100 miles from Phoenix and where neither has ever lived, and asked a judge to take the rare step of sealing the entire case file.

Napper, the judge now overseeing the case, ruled the case was improperly sealed and rejected many of the Gallegos' requested redactions.

The Arizona Court of Appeals sided with the Free Beacon last week and ordered the files unsealed on Thursday. The state Supreme Court declined to step in late Wednesday.

U.S. Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., speaks during a debate with Republican challenger Kari Lake, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, in Phoenix. (Cheryl Evans/Arizona Republic via AP)