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The Reaper
05-03-2006, 12:55
LTC (R) Earl Woods, Special Forces, father of Tiger Woods, has just died.
http://www.tigerwoods.com/news/fullstory.sps?iNewsid=327330&itype=6245&iCategoryID=505
Details to follow.
TR
Team Sergeant
05-03-2006, 13:13
RIP LTC Woods
CPTAUSRET
05-03-2006, 13:17
Blue skies:
Rest In Peace!
Prostate Cancer that spread, nasty stuff.
Terry
Roguish Lawyer
05-03-2006, 13:35
RIP. Heard on the radio he was 74.
Goggles Pizano
05-03-2006, 13:39
Rest in peace Sir.
Bill Harsey
05-03-2006, 13:59
Rest in peace Sir.
Thanks for what you did.
Jack Moroney (RIP)
05-03-2006, 14:25
RIP
Soft landings, LTC Woods.
"I make it very, very clear that my purpose in raising Tiger was not to raise a golfer. I wanted to raise a good person," Woods told Golf Digest magazine about his book, "Training a Tiger: A Father's Guide to Raising a Winner in Both Golf and Life."
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In the forward to his father's book, Woods said: "In retrospect, golf for me was an apparent attempt to emulate the person I looked up to more than anyone: my father. He was instrumental in helping me develop the drive to achieve, but his role _ as well as my mother's _ was one of support and guidance, not interference."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/golf/3838286.html
Job well done, Sir. Rest in Peace.
Pat
skipjack
05-03-2006, 15:45
RIP, Sir!
-skipjack
Ambush Master
05-03-2006, 16:39
RIP LTC Woods.
aricbcool
05-03-2006, 16:48
RIP Sir.
NousDefionsDoc
05-03-2006, 17:01
RIP Sir.
Abu Jack
05-03-2006, 18:27
Rest In Peace
Rest in blessed Peace LTC Woods.
bberkley
05-03-2006, 18:42
RIP Sir.
uboat509
05-03-2006, 22:54
RIP, sir.
SFC W
CoLawman
05-03-2006, 23:01
Rest in Peace
Kyobanim
05-04-2006, 07:54
Rest in Peace
cjmurphy
05-04-2006, 11:54
Here is some additional information, taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Woods
Earl Woods (March 5, 1932 – May 3, 2006) was a pioneering African-American athlete, a Lieutenant colonel in the Green Berets, and the father of golfer Tiger Woods.
Woods was born and raised in Manhattan, Kansas. After being orphaned at age 13, he was raised by his sister. Woods attended Kansas State University on a baseball scholarship. While at Kansas State, Woods, of mixed Black, Chinese and Native American ancestry, broke the "color barrier" in baseball in the Big Seven Conference in 1951. Woods played catcher, and was good enough that the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues offered him a contract. However, he rejected the Monarchs, graduated from college in 1953, and started a career in the U.S. Army.
Woods served two full tours of duty in the Vietnam War, the second as part of the elite Green Berets. While serving in Asia, Woods met his future second wife, Kultida Woods, who is of mixed Thai, Chinese, and Dutch ancestry. Woods also had three children from a first marriage; in interviews he said he rarely saw these children. While serving with the military in Asia he also became friendly with Vuong Dang (Tiger) Phong, a Vietnamese Army Colonel. It was this friendship that led Woods to nickname his son Tiger. Woods retired from the military in 1974.
Woods' son Tiger was born on December 30, 1975, and became a child prodigy playing golf by the time he was three years old. Earl Woods shared many of the techniques he used in rearing Tiger in two books: Training a Tiger and Playing Through: Straight Talk on Hard Work, Big Dreams and Adventures with Tiger. He had been criticized by some for putting too much pressure on Tiger at an early age.
The Earl Woods National Youth Golf Academy at Colbert Hills Golf Course in Manhattan, Kansas is named in his honor. It was host to the first First Tee National Academy in 2000.
Woods died from prostate cancer (which he had originally been diagnosed with in 1998) at his home in Cypress, California on May 3, 2006.
Rest in Peace, Sir.
Warrior-Mentor
05-06-2006, 18:47
RIP Sir.
Mission Accomplished Sir, you raised a fine man. RIP