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 ...

Earl Woods almost didn’t make it to Augusta. In fact, he almost didn’t make it period. The onetime Green Beret in Vietnam really was up against it this time. In late February, complicat… ...

Earl Woods, a college baseball star and Green Beret who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, died at his home in Cypress, Calif., where he had set up a makeshift practice range in the garage.

According to Golf Digest, Earl served in the military from 1954-1974. He had two tours in Vietnam, and became a Green Beret. Earl told Golf Digest that part of his motivation to join the military ...

Earl D. Woods, who was role model, career architect, cheerleader and first golf coach for his youngest son, Tiger Woods, died early Wednesday at his home in Cypress after a long battle with cancer ...

Earl passed away on May 3, 2006, at the age of 74. However, the Vietnam War left a lasting impression on Cheyenne, who followed Tigers' footsteps into professional golf.

Tiger was Kultida and Earl Woods’ only child together. Tiger has a few half-siblings from his father’s first marriage. Kultida met Earl while he was on tour of duty in the military in Thailand.

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 ...

Earl Woods, a Vietnam veteran, met Kultida, his second wife, while stationed in Thailand. They married in 1969. Tiger Woods was born in 1975. Earl Woods took most of the credit for Tiger Woods ...

Born in the province of Kanchanaburi in Thailand in 1944, Kultida Punsawad was working as a civilian receptionist at a U.S. Army outpost in Bangkok during the Vietnam War when she met Earl Woods ...

Kultida and Tiger’s dad, Earl, got married in Brooklyn in 1969, after meeting in Thailand three years earlier, while Earl served during the Vietnam War. 5 Tiger Woods’ mom, Kultida, died ...

Tiger Woods' parents, Kultida Woods and Earl Woods, met on a Bangkok U.S. Army base in the late 1960s. ... In Vietnam, Earl ...