The Woods family broke a long drought Sunday at the PNC Championship, but the most famous family in golf is still searching for the winner’s circle.

On the par-3 hole at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club, Charlie Woods smoothed a 7-iron from 176 yards that took one hop and rolled right into the cup for an ace.

The golf world went wild as the younger Woods accomplished something his 15-time major-winning father, Tiger Woods, hadn’t done in competition in 26 years, during his third year on the PGA Tour. It was Charlie’s first hole-in-one in his entire golf career at the same event where he made his first career eagle four years ago in 2020.

Team Woods kept rolling after that. The first-round co-leaders after a 59 Saturday, kept making birdies. They finished with a 57 Sunday and a record-setting 36-hole score of 28 under, but in the end it wasn’t enough. Team Bernhard and Jason Langer also finished at the same score and Bernhard, the last to putt in the first playoff hole, just curled in an eagle putt to beat the Woods’ and win their second straight PNC Championship.

Charlie’s hole-in-one and the Langer’s win were part of a wild final round at the PGA Tour Champions-sanctioned event that was dubbed the “greatest day in PNC Championship history” by NBC’s Dan Hicks. Shortly after Charlie’s ace, Paddy Harington, son of three-time major winner Padraig Harrington, also made an ace at the 8th hole. The two aces were just the second and third in the 27 editions of the tournament.

The Woods’ playing partners Sunday and defending champions, the Langers pulled into shares of the lead three times on Sunday, but could never take the outright lead away from team Woods. The pairs kept matching each other shot for shot, matching birdies on the same hole nine times, and answering Charlie’s hole-in-one on No. 4 with an eagle on the par-5 5th.

Both teams parred the 17th hole and birdied the 18th hole after the Langers missed an eagle putt from just off the green.

That sent them back to the 18th where Charlie Woods and Bernhard Langer, hit it nearly in the same position as regulation. Tiger Woods hit their approach just right of the green while Jason Langer — playing from 20 yards closer thanks to dad Bernhard playing nearly 50 yards farther up than Charlie — hit his approach 20 feet left of the hole in the center of the green.

Team Langer has now won a record six PNC Championships with Jason now having won four times while brother Stefan — who caddied for Jason — has won twice.

It was Tiger Woods’ first tournament since missing the cut at the Open Championship at Royal Troon. He did not play two weeks ago at the Hero World Challenge, the charity exhibition event he hosts in the Bahamas, saying his game wasn’t sharp and revealing he underwent a sixth back surgery in September.

But notably, Tiger Woods decided to walk this without the aid of a golf cart for the first time since his second appearance at the event, less than a year after his February 2021 car crash. Since the event is run by the PGA Tour Champions, competitors are allowed to take a cart.

The win was also a total family event for Team Woods as Tiger Woods had 17-year-old daughter Sam Woods caddying for him for the second consecutive year. Woods’ ex-wife Elin Nordegren was also seen onsite at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club watching the action.

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