Tiger Woods: The Rise, Fall, and Comeback of a Golf Legend

Tiger Woods was born on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California, as Eldrick Tont Woods. He is the son of Earl Woods, a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, and Kultida Woods, a native of Thailand. He was nicknamed Tiger after a Vietnamese soldier and friend of his father, Vuong Dang Phong.