However, Woods still has some unfinished business in his personal life, it seems. Since his father, Earl, passed away in 2006, the golfer has been ignoring his three half-siblings.
One brother, Earl Jr., has multiple sclerosis and may be losing his house. He's in dire need of help from Tiger. Here's the whole report, via Ricky Reilly (H/T Off the Bench):
“I leave messages,” Earl Jr. says. “I leave updates on Kevin, but for whatever reason I don’t get a response. … Kevin loves Tiger. A call from Tiger would really pump Kevin up. When he doesn’t call, it just makes him feel worse.”Earl Jr., Kevin and sister Royce are the children of Earl Woods and Barbara Gary, of Kansas. They’re 20, 18 and 17 years older than Tiger, who is the offspring of Earl’s second marriage, to Kultida Punsawad. Though they lived in different houses, the four kids visited often and say they remained close until Tiger turned “about 15 or 16,” Earl Jr. says. “But the more universal Tiger got, the less we heard from him.”
Royce lives in San Jose, and was close to Tiger when he was attending Stanford.In thanks, Tiger bought her a house. But since the funeral, none of them have been able to contact him.
“I would live in a shack,” Royce told author Tom Callahan for his 2010 book “His Father’s Son,” “literally a shack, if I could have my relationship with my brother back.”
Reilly said that Tiger’s spokesman refused comment on the article.“I’d like to [slap] Tiger, wake him up,” Earl. Jr said.
“Maybe when you see the world like he does, you don’t see what other people are going through. But, seriously? You’ve got problems with your knee? That’s nothing compared to what Kevin is going through. Nothing.”
I really don't want to get into Woods' life at all, but should he help them? Woods hasn't really been with a family since leaving Elin. Maybe he should consider re-uniting.
