Charlie Woods, the son of 15-time major champion and golf legend Tiger Woods, announced Tuesday that he has committed to play for Florida State in 2027.

It is a major recruiting win for the Seminoles, who were among several prominent programs aggressively pursuing Charlie Woods. In November, Florida State golf coach Trey Jones spent time walking the course with Tiger as Charlie Woods shot a team-best 68 and helped his team claim the Florida 1A state title.

Charlie Woods, who turned 17 on Sunday, is currently a junior at The Benjamin School, a private school in Palm Beach, Fla. He will join an FSU recruiting class that already includes Jacksonville, Fla.’s Miles Russell, the top-ranked amateur in the world. Woods, who is No. 23 in the AJGA rankings, won the AJGA Team TaylorMade Invitational last May.

BREAKING: CHARLIE WOODS -> FSU

Posting on his Instagram account, Charlie Woods, the son of @TigerWoods, has committed to @FSUGolf.

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— Warchant.com (@Warchant) February 10, 2026

Tiger Woods said in December that his son had been hearing for a number of college coaches, and that it was far different than his recruitment in the 1990s.

“It’s been very different, the recruiting process. Now you have cell phones,” Tiger said. “We didn’t have cell phones. We would have written letters that would show up in the mailbox. ‘Oh, my God, I got a letter.’ It’s just very different how fast coaches can communicate with the family members and the player that they’re trying to recruit. It’s just a different world. Not saying it’s good or bad. It’s just different.”

Tiger Woods played at Stanford, won his first collegiate event and was an All-American from 1996-98 before turning pro. His daughter, Sam, was a member of Benjamin School’s state-title soccer team before enrolling at Stanford.

–Field Level Media

Whether or not tennis great Serena Williams is considering a comeback, the 23-time Grand Slam champion is now eligible to return as soon as Feb. 22.

The International Tennis Integrity Agency included Williams, 44, on the updated list of reinstated players on Tuesday. That was the last step in a process that began at least as far back as Oct. 6 when her name appeared in the International Registered Testing Pool, a requirement for a return to competition.

Being in the pool and available for random, out-of-competition drug testing for at least six months is a requirement for players who want to return to tennis. Players in the pool are required to inform testers of their location for one hour each day.

“Omg yall I’m NOT coming back. This wildfire is crazy,” Williams posted on social media in December in response to a report of a possible comeback.

As recently as last month, Williams was noncommittal either way.

“I’m just having fun and enjoying my life right now,” she said on the “Today” show in January. “I’m just going to see what happens.”

Williams last played on the WTA Tour at the U.S. Open in 2022. In August of that year, she announced in a Vogue magazine article that she was “evolving away” from tennis.

“I have never liked the word retirement,” she wrote. “It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution.”

If Williams does return, she could seek to enter the ATX Open in Austin, Texas, a WTA 250 tournament from Feb. 23 to March 1. Williams’ older sister, Venus, is still active on tour and received a wild-card entry for both singles and doubles. She had not announced a doubles partner.

Ranked No. 1 for 319 weeks, Serena Williams won 73 singles titles on the WTA Tour and earned nearly $95 million in prize money. She won Wimbledon and the Australian Open seven times each, the U.S. Open six times and the French Open three times.

Williams, who also won 14 major doubles titles with Venus, is the only player to accomplish a career Golden Slam (all four majors) in both singles and doubles.

Williams and her husband, Alexis Ohanian, are raising two daughters.

–Field Level Media

It’s not easy to find a signature win on Iowa’s resume. The Hawkeyes have yet to beat a ranked team in four tries.

But by virtue of being nearly flawless against the rest of its competition, Iowa (18-5, 8-4 Big Ten) has risen to No. 20 in the NET Rankings and, barring a late-season collapse, is on its way to gaining a berth in the NCAA Tournament.

The Hawkeyes face another unranked foe Wednesday in College Park, Md., when they put their six-game winning streak on the line against Maryland (9-14, 2-10).

Both teams are coming off wins Sunday in which they got clutch performances from their top threats.

In Maryland’s 67-62 victory at Minnesota, guard David Coit went on a personal 7-0 run in the final 26 seconds and finished with 29 points.

In Iowa’s 76-70 win over visiting Northwestern, guard Bennett Stirtz scored a career-high 36 points to rescue the Hawkeyes from an otherwise lethargic performance.

“We were kind of in a little lull, a little asleep,” Stirtz said. “And I knew that I needed to get going late in the first half.”

Iowa coach Ben McCollum said that it’s the Hawkeyes’ collective effort that allows Stirtz to thrive individually.

“The thing with really good players that people don’t realize is the players around him have to allow him to be great,” McCollum said. “A lot of teams have great players … but their teammates want some more shine out of it, so they won’t allow that player to be great.”

Maryland knows all about Stirtz. He scored 25 points on 10-of-17 shooting when the Hawkeyes rolled to an 83-64 victory on Dec. 6 in Iowa City.

Unlike Stirtz, Coit has been wildly inconsistent this season, often finding himself in the doghouse of first-year coach Buzz Williams.

Despite scoring binges of 43 and 41 points in wins over Penn State and Mount St. Mary’s, Coit has come off the bench in 10 of Maryland’s 23 games, including the win Sunday.

It was a much-need victory as the Terrapins had lost their previous four games by an average margin of 28 points.

“I thought the fight, the togetherness was as good as it’s been in a long, long time,” Williams said.

–Field Level Media