Who? Earl woods?
Book casts Tiger Woods' dad as a womanizer
By Tom Weir, USA TODAY
Updated 2010-09-21 4:50 PM
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By Richard Drew/AP
A book on Earl Woods explores the womanizing side of Tiger Woods' father.
His Father's Son, written by veteran sportswriter Tom Callahan, will go on sale Oct. 28, and Golf Digest also will publish excerpts.
The AP says the book addresses the late Earl Woods' Kansas roots and prejudice he faced as the only black baseball player at Kansas State. It also traces his military career and his first marriage, and accounts of infidelity.
In one chapter, Tiger is described as furious with his father toward the end of his life and Earl implies Tiger had to bail him out financially from a predicament involving "some kind of sexual jackpot."
Callahan, who met Earl Woods in 1996 and visited often with his, also writes that, "Any woman who ventured within fifty feet of Earl was a potential plaintiff."
Callahan's research included interviews with Earl Woods' sisters, neighbors from his childhood and his first wife and their three children, the AP says.