Of course he could have known. He can't speak for himself any more. I have always wanted my kids to be the best they could be. I hope and pray they will always be moral adults. As far as I know right now, the old man was honorable.
After all, he was the one who built 'Tiger' the name from three years old. That is kind of whoring out your son & riding the gravy train if you ask me.
A man can build anything he likes. If Tiger wasn't winning one tournament after another after another i.e. if he was just a journeyman or worse, none of this would have made the news.
I think the old man had an interesting life if I can recall. He was a Green Beret, I think, and served multiple tours in Vietnam, again, I think. I thought he named Tiger after some Vietnamese blood brother of sorts. There may be a history there as well. I just don't know. As far as I know, the old man was the once and future honorable man.
And the color of his skin certainly gave him a place to start.
I don't think Tiger has any Eskimo blood in him. I'm pretty sure he also doesn't have any Indian (dot, not feather) blood, and none from the Mayans. I don't much other stock was missed.
There are some fantastic black golfers in this area but they don't have the PR machine & money backing that Tiger's dad created for him.
If Dad was rich, I'm not sure of the source. Tiger's PR machine is the PGA. I bet today they would like 'overs.'
Who can really speak for another? I haven't been into hero worship since I turned about sixteen. Perhaps the acorn in this case fell near the root. I just don't know. Perhaps it's just a case of way to much cash before maturity.
I CHEATED TO MAKE TIGER KING OF THE JUNGLE; SAYS EARL WOODS
Tiger may have become “America’s son” but he is still very much Earl’s boy. Father and son make a remarkable twosome.
Earl, 65, and on the mend from a triple heart bypass in February, says: “He really does Warren Trotter, better known as Really Doe, is an American rapper from Chicago, Illinois. He is affiliated with Kanye West and his G.O.O.D. Music family and label.
“He recognises there is lot more to be done in his life and that I’m suppose to be there to participate.”
Tiger is equally devoted to his mother, Kultida, 54. But it is the chemistry between Tiger and Earl that is compelling. They share a closeness many fathers and sons never have.
Earl admits he hasn’t always been the perfect parent. Born in Kansas, he joined the Army in 1954 and served as a Green Beret in Vietnam before becoming a lieutenant colonel.
But his absences weren’t greeted with delight by his first wife Barbara and their three children. “I was not there and I would return and see three totally different children,” he says with sadness.
“I learnt from my mistakes. Tiger was lucky in that I was there for him 100 per cent.”
Earl divorced Barbara in 1969 and in 1975 married Kultida Punsawad, an Army secretary he met while stationed in Bangkok.
From the start there was a bond, forged by Earl’s belief his child was destined for greatness and
how 10-month-old Tiger hopped from his high chair and started mimicking his dad’s golf swing.
Earl says: “I promised myself I would make two contributions to his golf game - course management and mental toughness, the latter a product of my years as a Green Beret.”
The lessons in course management taught Tiger to identify and evaluate his alternatives and choose the right one to be successful.
Then, in his 12th year it was time for him to go through the Woods’ Finishing School fin·ish·ing school
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A private girls’ school that stresses training in cultural subjects and social activities.
“My plan was to put Tiger through some rigorous training in mental toughness.
“The ground rules were simple. If at any time he wanted the training to end he would just mention the code word and that would be it. There were no other rules - everything goes and he could say nothing in response.
“I do not recommend it for every parent because you must know your child’s disposition and tolerance level. The sort of training I put Tiger through might be counter-productive and alienating with another child.
“With Tiger, there was never any guesswork. I knew how much he could take. So I pulled every nasty, dirty, obnoxious trick on my son every week.
“I dropped a bag of bricks at the impact of his swing. I imitated a crow’s voice while he was stroking a putt. When he was ready to hit a shot, I would toss a ball in front of him.
“I would stand in his sight and move when he was about to hit the ball. I would cough as he took the club back and say ‘Don’t hit it in the water’. Those weren’t nice things I did.
“I played with his mind and, don’t forget, he was not permitted to say a word.
“Sometimes he got so angry he would stop his club on the downward swing and glare at me. I taught him every little trick that an opponent could possibly pull on him in matchplay - and some I invented myself.
“I even - and I’m not proud to say it - cheated, just to get some reaction from him because somewhere down the line somebody was going to do it with him.
“Tiger told me later it was the most difficult time of his entire life. There were times he was so angry he wanted to destroy his clubs.
“He never forgot it was for his benefit alone, but he wouldn’t have wished this training on any other human being.
“It was equally tough on me. Some things I did didn’t fill me with joy, either. But he learned and became mentally tough.”
So far Earl’s methods haven’t left any scars. Mark O’Meara Mark Francis O’Meara (born January 13, 1957) is a professional golfer who was a prolific tournament winner on the PGA Tour and around the world from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. In 2007 he entered his first season on the Champions Tour. , practice pal and friend of Tiger says: “A couple of times Tiger has brought up the military experience his father had - a toughness, the fighter in him. Tiger feels like he has inherited some of that.”
They might be lying low at the moment, but Tiger Woods still has his doubters.
They aren’t necessarily jealous people, or even cynics, probably from their manners and their meeting place, the Cynosarges, an academy for Athenian youths], ancient school of philosophy founded c.440 B.C. by Antisthenes, a disciple of Socrates. , just hard cases who have seen golf slaughter its young.
Many felt disappointment when he didn’t win last month’s US Open.
How could someone so brilliant not whip the world- class field?
O’Meara added: “The sign of a champion is how he bounces back.”
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He married Barbara Woods Gary (May 18, 1954, in Abilene, Kansas). Before their divorce (1968 in Ciudad Juárez, 1972 in California), they had three children: Earl Dennison Jr. called Denny (1955), Kevin Dale (1957), and Royce Renee (1961).
Woods met his future second wife in Asia. Kultida “Tida” Woods has Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry. They married on or around July 11, 1969 in Brooklyn, New York, and she bore Woods’ fourth child, Eldrick on December 30, 1975.