Earl Woods

Earl Dennison Woods was a US Army infantry officer who served two tours of duty in Vietnam, and retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He was a collegelevel baseball player and writer, whose son is professional golfer Tiger Woods. Woods started his son in golf at a very early age, and coached him exclusively for his first years in the sport.

Earl Woods was born in Manhattan, Kansas. His father, Miles Woods, had five children by his first wife, Viola, and six more by his second, Maude Carter. Miles Woods was an epileptic who worked as a street cleaner and caretaker. Although he was a devout Baptist, he also had a reputation for being able to swear forminutes without interruption. Earl Woods once remarked, I picked up on that. Earl Woods mother, Maude Woods, was of mixed African and European ancestry, of lighterskinned. Earl siblings ranged from fairly dark to very light he remembered that his grandmother Carter, a Mulatto, was the prettiest blonde you ever saw. There was a family joke about an alleged Chinese ancestor who didnt stay on his railroad job, but there is no record of any Chinese ancestry. However, the family is said to have some Native American ancestry. Miles Woods loved baseball and passed his passion on to his son. Maude Woods, who was college educated, was determined her children should make the best o

Source: Wikipedia