Question: Tiger Woods Middle Name: What Is It?

Answer:

Tiger Woods' middle name is "Tont": Eldrick (Tiger) Tont Woods.

Woods doesn't list his middle name on his official Web site, and "Tont" was only widely revealed as his middle name when legal documents relating to his divorce from Elin Nordegren became public.

"Tont," according to various sources on the Web, is a traditional Thai name. Woods' mother, Kultida, is from Thailand.

The Wikipedia page about Woods displays the name written in Thai script. If you take those script characters and plug them into Google Translate, an English translation of "beginning" is what you get.

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