Mon, 09 February 2009
Charlie Woods: Tiger Woods’ New Son!
Golf champ Tiger Woods has taken to his official website to announce the birth of his and wife Elin Nordegren’s new son.
“Elin and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our son, Charlie Axel Woods, who was born on Sunday February 8, 2009,” the 33-year-old No. 1 golfer wrote in the statement. “Both Charlie and Elin are doing great and we want to thank everyone for their sincere best wishes and kind thoughts. [My 20-month-old daughter] Sam is very excited to be a big sister and we feel truly blessed to have such a wonderful family.
“I also want to thank our doctors, nurses and the hospital staff for their personal and professional care. We look forward to introducing Charlie to you at the appropriate time, and again thanks from all of us for your kindness and support.”
Congrats to the happy family!
Charlie Woods: Tiger Woods’ New Son!
Golf champ Tiger Woods has taken to his official website to announce the birth of his and wife Elin Nordegren’s new son.
“Elin and I are thrilled to announce the birth of our son, Charlie Axel Woods, who was born on Sunday February 8, 2009,” the 33-year-old No. 1 golfer wrote in the statement. “Both Charlie and Elin are doing great and we want to thank everyone for their sincere best wishes and kind thoughts. [My 20-month-old daughter] Sam is very excited to be a big sister and we feel truly blessed to have such a wonderful family.
“I also want to thank our doctors, nurses and the hospital staff for their personal and professional care. We look forward to introducing Charlie to you at the appropriate time, and again thanks from all of us for your kindness and support.”
Congrats to the happy family!
Tiger Woods (Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods);
-American professional golfer
- Woods was born in Cypress, California to Earl (1932-2006) and Kultida (Tida) Woods (1944).
- He is the only child of their marriage but has two half-brothers, Earl Jr. (born 1955) and Kevin (born 1957), and one half-sister, Royce (born 1958) from the 18-year marriage of Earl Woods and his first wife, Barbara Woods Gray.
-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 (née 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.
-In November 2003, Woods became engaged to Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model.They married on October 5, 2004.
-Early in the morning of June 18, 2007, Elin gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter, Sam Alexis Woods, in Orlando.
-Elin had given birth to a boy, named Charlie Axel on February 8, 2009.
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Elin Nordegren (Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren Woods );
-Nordegren's mother, Barbro Holmberg, is a politician and former migration and asylum policy minister of Sweden, while her father, Thomas, is a radio journalist who has served as bureau chief in Washington, D.C. for the Swedish Broadcasting media.
-She has one older brother, Axel, and a twin sister, Josefin
