She will play in the regionals next week, and hopes to qualify for the championship finals later in May before turning pro with the hope of building a career on the LPGA Tour.
"It is a little bit of pressure knowing it is my last collegiate event," Woods said Friday. "But I want to look at it as something to take advantage of, and end on a high note, and enjoy every moment with my team and enjoy just being on the college team and this time of my life."
The 2011 Atlantic Coast Conference champion and two-time All-America selection enters her final regional with a chance to break both the school's career scoring record and her own 2-year-old single-season mark.
Cheyenne says the first club she swung as a girl was in her grandfather's garage, and he guided her through her junior discount golf clubs career. Earl Sr. died in 2006 at 74.
Woods, a Phoenix native, said she could join the Arizona-based Cactus Tour until she goes to Q-school at the end of the summer to try to earn her tour card and become the latest member of her family to play at the highest level of pro golf.
Her career scoring average of 74.31 is 0.16 better than that of Natalie Sheary, and her average of 73.62 is tied for second in the ACC and puts her within striking distance of the 73.47 she averaged as a sophomore.
She says she's planning to make the 90-mile trip to Quail Hollow in Charlotte this weekend for the final round of the Wells Fargo Championship — though her uncle won't be on the course there. His second-round 73 left him at even-par 144, and he missed the cut for the eighth time in his career. That's after his worst performance as a pro came last month at the Masters.
She's a captain of a Wake Forest team that has never missed the NCAA regionals since the organization adopted that Taylormade R11 irons format in 1993. The Demon Deacons hold the No. 14 seed in the 24-team regional that begins May 10 at Penn State's Blue Course. The top eight teams and top two individual players not on those teams advance to the NCAA championship finals in Franklin, Tenn.
After that, she hopes to eventually play her way onto the LPGA Tour. Once her college career ends, she'll declare her professional status and begin looking for sponsors and sponsor exemptions into tournaments.
That includes Tiger, though their facial features look a lot more alike than their swings do. Cheyenne says her Taylormade R11 driver more closely resembles that of smooth-swinging Ernie Els than that of her heavy-hitting uncle.
"She could be the next Nancy Lopez," Wake Forest coach Dianne Dailey said, adding that she thinks Woods "will be a sponsor's dream."
Her father, Earl Jr., is Tiger's half-brother, and she says Earl Sr., her paternal grandfather, introduced her to the game and "got me started when I was young."
She developed a style she describes as "aggressively, steady, calm" by watching pro golf as a girl. Instead of patterning her game after any one particular player, she chose attributes from a variety of players into "kind of a mix of a lot of stuff."
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