Cheyenne Woods headed to U.S. Women’s Open Championship
Fred Jeter | 5/20/2021, 6 p.m.
Golf fans will be seeing a lot of Cheyenne Woods in coming months, both as an athlete and TV commentator.
The 30-year-old niece of Tiger Woods has qualified to play in the 76th annual U.S. Women’s Open Championship, June 3 through 6 at The Olympic Club Lake Course in San Francisco.
Woods punched her ticket to the Open by winning a Sectional Qualifier May 8 in Spring Lake, N.J. She shot rounds of 73 and 69, prevailing by five strokes.
She also is a regular broadcaster-analyst on the Golf Channel.
Among her upcoming assignments are covering the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships, the U.S. Women’s Amateur and the U.S. Girls’ Junior Golf Championship.
Woods spends a lot of time in New York and is a regular at New York Yankees games. She is the longtime girlfriend of Yankees centerfielder Aaron Hicks.
A former Wake Forest University standout, Woods is the daughter of Susan Woods and Earl Dennison Woods, who is Tiger Woods’ half-brother.
She is just the sixth African-American to compete on the LPGA circuit. She also competes in some events on the European Women’s tour.
