Father and coach of Tiger Woods — a retired Army Lieutenant Colonel who applied military discipline and sports psychology to developing Tiger from infancy into the world's greatest golfer.
Earl Woods as the template for intentional athletic development: Earl began introducing Tiger to golf at 18 months, applied military mental conditioning techniques (deliberately distracting Tiger during shots to build concentration), and designed a comprehensive athletic development program. The Tiger Woods story is simultaneously the greatest individual athletic development achievement in sports history and a complex psychological case study in what intensive parental shaping does to a child. Earl's philosophy ('training the mind more than the body') influenced youth athletic coaching globally.
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