Tiger Woods credit his mom for encouraging his signature look of sporting purple shirts on Sundays throughout competitors.
“Mother thought being a Capricorn that my energy colour was purple, so I wore purple as a junior golfer and I received some tournaments,” Woods mentioned final yr.
Woods gave Kultida Woods credit score for rather more than that Tuesday when he introduced that she had died early that morning. She was 80.
“My Mother was a drive of nature all her personal, her spirit was merely simple,” Woods wrote on X. “She was fast with the needle and fun. She was my largest fan, best supporter, with out her none of my private achievements would have been potential. She was cherished by so many, however particularly by her two grandchildren, Sam and Charlie.”
No reason for demise or every other particulars got.
“These of us who’ve been fortunate sufficient to have a firsthand view of Tiger Woods’ profession know the way a lot each his greatness and his humanity have stemmed from the love and assist of his mom,” PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan mentioned in an announcement. “We’ll cherish our reminiscences of her and our ideas are with Tiger, his youngsters Sam and Charlie, and their total household as they mourn her loss.”
Kultida Woods was born in Kanchanaburi, Thailand. She met Earl Woods whereas working as a civilian secretary within the U.S. Military workplace in Bangkok. The 2 married in 1968 and ultimately moved to Cypress in Southern California, the place Tiger Woods was born in 1975.
After Earl Woods died in 2006, his spouse moved from Orange County to South Florida to be nearer to their son. Though she stored a lot of her life personal, Kultida Woods might usually be seen supporting Tiger by the ups and downs of his profession and life.
She was on the 18th inexperienced to greet him when he received the 2019 Masters, his fifteenth main championship. She was sitting within the entrance row for the 2010 information convention through which he admitted to a number of extramarital affairs. She was readily available when he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019 and when he was inducted into the World Golf Corridor of Fame in 2022.
She was final seen publicly at his TMRW Golf League match final week in Palm Seashore Gardens, Fla.
“Mother has been there my total life. She’s at all times been there by thick and skinny,” Woods mentioned final yr in accepting the USGA’s Bob Jones Award. “She has allowed me to get right here. She allowed me to do this stuff, chase my goals, and the assist and love — I didn’t do that alone. I had the best rock that any little one might presumably have: my mother.”
President Trump additionally paid tribute to Kultida Woods Tuesday on Fact Social.
“I used to be simply knowledgeable that Tiger Woods’ great Mom, Kultida, handed away — She has gone onto greener fairways!” Trump wrote. “Kultida Woods was an incredible affect on Tiger, and gave him a lot of his power and brilliance.”