Charlie Woods, the 15-year-old son of golf legend Tiger, will begin his quest to qualify for his first PGA Tour appearance next week.
Woods Jr. will compete in one of four preliminary qualifiers on Thursday in hopes of qualifying for the Cognizant Classic.
The top 25 and tied players will advance to Monday's final qualifier, after which four players will qualify for the main field.
Rory McIlroy will be one of the stars playing for a £7.1 million prize at the PGA National in Florida.
If Charlie Woods joins the Northern Ireland squad, he will have to pass an 18-hole qualification at Lost Lake Golf Club, where he is grouped with Ireland's Ruaidhri McGee and America's Olin Brown Jr. .
Athletes who advance through that stage will compete in the final qualifying round at Tesoro Club's Palmer Course in order to qualify for the Cognizant Classic, which will be held from February 29th to March 3rd. It turns out.
Woods, a teenager, has competed in the past four PNC Championship exhibition events with his father, who was forced to withdraw during last week's Genesis Invitational due to illness.
Charlie Woods finished tied for 17th in the men's 14-15 division at last year's Nota Begay III Junior Golf National Championship, where 15-time major champion Tiger served as his caddy.
Meanwhile, LIV Golf's Joaquin Niemann was one of three players to receive a special invitation to the Masters in early April.
The 25-year-old Chilean was ranked 18th in the world when he withdrew from the Breakaway Tour, an event that does not earn ranking points, and became the 13th LIV golfer in the Masters field.
Denmark's Torbjorn Olesen and 21-year-old Ryo Hisatsune, the first Japanese player to win the European Tour Rookie of the Year title, have also been invited to Augusta National.
