Tiger’s Mother, Kultida, Passes Away
- The Daily Stump
- Feb 5
- 2 min read
Updated: Feb 6
What to know: Tiger Woods described his mother as “the enforcer” throughout his career, often pushing him past his limits, helping guide him along what has become one of the most impressive careers in all of sports history. Kutilda Woods, at the age of 80, passed away yesterday in her home in Florida.
Kultilda and Earl Woods met when Earl was a solider in the US Army Special Forces. Earl was stationed in Thailand, where Kultida was working as a civilian in the US Army Bangkok office. She left for the US in 1968, the two were married in New York and moved to Cypress, California, where Tiger was born in 1975.
She is also the mastermind behind the iconic Tiger Woods Sunday reds. She thought that because Tiger was a Capricorn and his power color was red, he should start wearing it during his junior golf tournaments. So he did, and he started winning. Tiger went to Stanford University and their color is…. red. Once he made it professional he started wearing red on the final day of each tournament. The color and outfit, now synonymous with some of Tiger’s most iconic moments, is the namesake of his clothing line “Sun Day Red”.
Kultida was there for some of the most iconic moments of his career, including the 18th green at Augusta National in 2019 when Tiger won the Masters, which capped arguably the most impressive comeback story in golfing history. In his post to X, Tiger said she was “a force of nature all her own, her spirit was simply undeniable,” rest in peace to Kultida Woods.
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