She is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry. Kultida (née Punsawad) is originally from Thailand, where Earl met her when he was on a tour of duty there in 1968. Army officer and Vietnam War veteran he was born to African-American parents and was also said to have had European, Native American, and possibly Chinese ancestry. He is their only child and has two half-brothers and a half-sister from his father's first marriage.
Woods and his father Earl at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, in 2004Įldrick Tont Woods was born on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, to Earl and Kultida "Tida" Woods. He returned to the PGA Tour for the first time since the car crash at the 2022 Masters.
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In an interview with Golf Digest in November 2021, Woods indicated that his full-time career as a professional golfer was over, although he would continue to play "a few events per year". On February 23, 2021, Woods was hospitalized in serious but stable condition after a single-car collision and underwent emergency surgery to repair compound fractures sustained in his right leg in addition to a shattered ankle. In May 2019, Woods was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump, the fourth golfer to receive the honor. He was also part of the American winning team for the 1999 Ryder Cup. Woods has won 18 World Golf Championships. He is also the second golfer (after Nicklaus) to achieve a career Grand Slam three times. Woods is the fifth (after Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus) player to achieve the career Grand Slam, and the youngest to do so. Woods leads all active golfers in career major wins and career PGA Tour wins. He has won 15 professional major golf championships (trailing only Jack Nicklaus, who leads with 18) and 82 PGA Tour events (tied for first all time with Sam Snead). Woods has the record of leading the money list in ten different seasons. He has been awarded PGA Player of the Year a record 11 times and has won the Byron Nelson Award for lowest adjusted scoring average a record eight times. He has been the number one player in the world for the most consecutive weeks and for the greatest total number of weeks of any golfer in history. On his return to regular competition, Woods made steady progress to the top of the game, winning his first tournament in five years at the Tour Championship in September 2018 and his first major in 11 years at the 2019 Masters. Woods competed in only one tournament between August 2015 and January 2018, and he dropped off the list of the world's top 1,000 golfers. However, injuries led him to undergo four back surgeries between 20. He fell to number 58 in the world rankings in November 2011 before ascending again to the number-one ranking between March 2013 and May 2014. Woods admitted to multiple infidelities, and the couple eventually divorced.
He took a self-imposed hiatus from professional golf from December 2009 to early April 2010 in an attempt to resolve marital issues with his wife at the time, Elin.
The next decade of Woods's career was marked by comebacks from personal problems and injuries. During this time, he won 13 of golf's major championships. He was the top-ranked golfer in the world from August 1999 to September 2004 (264 consecutive weeks) and again from June 2005 to October 2010 (281 consecutive weeks).
Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, Woods was the dominant force in golf. He reached number one in the world rankings for the first time in June 1997, less than a year after turning pro. By the end of April 1997, he had won three PGA Tour events in addition to his first major, the 1997 Masters, which he won by 12 strokes in a record-breaking performance. įollowing an outstanding junior, college, and amateur golf career, Woods turned professional in 1996 at the age of 20. He is an inductee of the World Golf Hall of Fame. Woods is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time and is one of the most famous athletes in modern history. He is tied for first in PGA Tour wins, ranks second in men's major championships, and holds numerous golf records.
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