Tiger Woods announces that his mother, Kuldida, is dead

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Tiger Woods announced that his mother, Kuldida, died on Tuesday morning.

No cause of death was immediately available.

“My mother was a nature power that was her own, her spirit was simply undeniable,” Woods said in a statement on social media. “She was quick with the needle and a laugh. She was my biggest fan, biggest supporter, without her none of my personal results would have been possible. “

Last week, Kultida Woods, 80, had participated in Tiger’s TGL match in South Florida.

Although Tiger’s father, Earl, was well known in golf circles, Tiger said his Thai -born mother was the driving force of his career and “The Enforcer.”

During his acceptance speech for the 2024 Bob Jones Award, USA’s highest honor, Woods saved some of his most inner comments on his mother.

“My mother doesn’t get enough credit,” he said. “Everyone thought it was my dad when I went on the road as it was, but Mom was home. If you don’t know, Mom has been there all my life. She has always been there through thick and thin. “

Woods said it was his mother who changed him to all his junior tournaments that had instilled his trademark toughness and recklessness that gave him the idea of ​​using red as his “Power Color” and which was a fixture, standing barely 5 feet tall and in her broad -brimming hat behind the ropes throughout her pro -career. A witness to so many legendary moments that Tida waited behind 18Th Green, with grandchildren Sam and Charlie, as Tiger Author one of the most notable comeback stories in his 2019 career Masters.

“This award,” Woods said during the speech last year, “I accept it in humility and just incredible consideration of the previous recipients, but I also accept it to my mother. She has allowed me to get hit. She let me do these things, chase my dreams and support and love – I didn’t do this alone. I had the biggest rock that every child might have: my mother. Thank you, Mom. “

Woods, 49, is the tournament host for next week’s Genesis Invitational, which has been moved from the Riviera Country Club to Torrey Pines in San Diego. It is not yet known if he will compete.

“Thank you all for your support, prayers and privacy at this difficult time for me and my family,” Woods said.