Champion Golfer Tiger Woods has Dutch blood

Champion Golfer Tiger Woods has Dutch blood

Tiger Woods has Dutch blood flowing through his veins. The living golf legend is very proud of his origins.

Granted he is only one eighth Dutch, but that is still more than 10 percent, the figure that is used to determine whether one should be included in this listing or not. To be exact, Tiger Woods is one quarter Chinese, one quarter Thai, one quarter African American, one eighth American Indian and one eighth Dutch. His Dutch connection comes through his great grand father on his mother’s side who was a Dutchman.

Woods was born in Cypress, California to Earl (1932-2006) and Kultida (Tida) Woods. He is the only child of their marriage. Earl, a retired United States Army lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran, was of mixed African American (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent) and Native American (25 percent) ancestry. Kultida (nee Punsawad), originally from Thailand, is of mixed Thai (50 percent), Chinese (25 percent), and Dutch (25 percent) ancestry. This makes Woods himself one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch.

According to the New Netherlands Institute in New York Tiger Woods is very proud of his multicultural blood.

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