Kultida (or “Tida,” as she was typically referred to) grew to become referred to as the matriarch of one of the well-known households in golf, however earlier than that, she was Kultida Punsawad, the youngest of 4 kids of an architect and a trainer. Kultida was born in 1944 in Kanchanaburi, Thailand (about 75 miles west of Bangkok). As a younger grownup, she moved to Bangkok and labored as a civilian secretary doing clerical work for the U.S. Military base in the course of the Vietnam Warfare. It was there, in 1966, that she met Earl Woods, a Inexperienced Beret who served within the sixth Particular Forces Group. Earl and Kultida married in 1969 and moved to the U.S., first residing in Brooklyn, New York, earlier than shifting to Cypress, California. In December 1975, Tida gave delivery to her solely son, Eldrick Woods.
Kultida Woods, mom of Tiger Woods, dies at age 80
