Tiger Woods Covered For Dad’s Affair(s) says new book

[HMG Celebrity News] – When the Tiger Woods scandal broke on November 25 of last year a lot of people asked how his beloved father would feel about all that mess. The answer appears to be ‘jealous.’

Tiger and his dad, Earl Woods were said to be close; Earl often joked that Tiger could hear his advice even if he was at home in California and Tiger was playing in Georgia. But when Earl died from prostate cancer on May 3rd of 2006, Tiger was so crushed he quit golf for two months.

The trouble is, while friends say Earl would have been “shocked” that his son had affairs with around two-dozen women, Daddy Woods himself was no saint.

A new book “His Father’s Son,” says Tiger’s childhood included many occasions where he saw Earl with other women. In fact, Tiger was only born because Earl left his first wife [and their three children,] and married a secretary with whom he had an affair while in the Army, Kultida Punsawad.

She was also 12-years his junior.

“Oh Lord. If he had been my husband, I’d have shot him.” Earl’s own sister, Mae Woods, tells the author, former ‘Golf Digest’ columnist Tom Callahan.

Other reports in the book also prove that Tiger had to pay at least one of Earl’s mistresses to keep quiet. This really upset him, and caused a rift with his father that lasted for years.

“Any woman who ventured within 50ft of Earl was a potential plaintiff,” Callahan writes in the book, later defining Earl as “a world-class braggart.”

Begun well before Tiger’s problems the book also paints the 34-year old golfer as an emotional island — unwilling to let even his close friends get too close.

“He and I have no relationship anymore,” says half-brother, Earl Woods Jr. “I got tired of trying to reach him. And my dad was more his best friend than his father. But Tiger’s whole world revolved around Tiger — he didn’t learn to value family.”

Tiger’s half-sister, Royce, took leave from her job to care for Earl when the cancer appeared. His funeral was hard on her, but she says Tiger offered support — kind of;

“I thought it was genuine,” she’s quoted as saying. “But I just don’t believe he’s genuine. I think he pretends. With Tiger, you always ask yourself, ‘Was it real?’ ”

Daddy Woods, says the book, was the one who gave Tiger the dream and the talent to get there. But he also shared the fondness for women that almost destroyed it.

“Were the women what made Earl and Tiger tick, or were they just what made them human?” Callahan asks?

What’s your reply?…

Source: SO-San Diego