Tiger Woods' parents, Kultida Woods and Earl Woods, met on a Bangkok U.S. Army base in the late 1960s Emily Weaver is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022.

So, why the nickname Tiger? That's a nod to one of Earl Woods' buddies. Earl Woods served in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, and that's where he told people he met one of his best ...

Kutilda was born in Kanchanaburi, Thailand, and worked as a civilian secretary, performing clerical duties for the U.S. Army base during the Vietnam War. She met Earl Woods in 1966, married him in ...

Tiger Woods, full name Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods, is an American professional golfer born on December 30, 1975. He is the joint first-rank holder in PGA Tour wins with a second spot in men's ...

She met Earl Woods while working as a civilian secretary in the U.S. Army office in Bangkok. The two married in 1968 and eventually moved to Cypress in Southern California, where Tiger Woods was ...

Kultida Woods was born in Thailand and was working as a civilian in the U.S. Army's Bangkok office in the 1960s when she met Earl Woods, a soldier in the U.S. Army Special Forces. She left for the ...

DeWitt later joined the Army in the 1980s and served at then-Fort ... article identified Woods’ father, retired Lt. Col. Earl Woods, as serving with the now-deactivated 6th Special Forces ...

Tiger was born in Cypress, California, on December 30, 1975, to mother Kultida, who died February 4, 2025, aged 78, and father Earl Woods, an army officer who passed away May 3, 2006, aged 74.

Kultida was working as a civilian in the U.S. Army’s office in Thailand when she met her husband Earl in the 1960s. Woods, who was working as a soldier in the U.S. Army Special Forces at that ...

He is the only child of Kultida, a Thai woman, and Earl Woods, an Army officer, and has three half-siblings from his father’s first marriage. Reportedly, Tiger's mother chose Eldrick as his ...

Tiger Woods announced Tuesday that his mother Kultida Woods had died. She was 80. Woods said in a post to social media that his mom died early Tuesday. He said she “was a force of nature all her ...