Charlie Woods shows uncanny likeness to his father Tiger Woods, but deserves to grow up unburdened by expectation

The sight of Tiger Woods’s 11-year-old son Charlie perfectly imitating his father’s swing at an exhibition event in Orlando will have drawn two distinct responses from golfers.

First “Awww, isn’t that cute”. And then, under the breath, “That’s just not bloody fair!”

That Charlie Woods was not merely a cute accessory but has clearly inherited at least some of his father’s sublime gifts with the sticks seems like another slap in the face to those of us from the shallow end of the sporting gene pool.

Isn’t it enough that Little Chuck gets the billion-dollar inheritance and the enviable lifestyle without also turning up for a televised event and shaming public course hackers by splitting fairways and making an eagle on par five?