Earl Woods contracting. Woods married Barbara Gary on May 18, 1954, in Abilene, Kansas. They had three children: Earl Dennison Jr. (1955), Kevin Dale (1957), and Royce Renee (1961). Earl Jr.'s daughter Cheyenne Woods is also a competitive golfer and received some coaching from Earl Sr. Woods and his wife divorced in 1968 in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Woods had met his second wife, Kultida Punsawad (; ), while stationed in Thailand in 1966. Punsawad is half Thai, a quarter Dutch and a quarter Chinese. They married in 1969 in Brooklyn, New York. Their son Eldrick was born in 1975. His son's nickname,
Malaysian names practice Christianity as a religion, tend to have a Christian first name, for example Melissa Melanie Raweng (Raweng being the father's name). Some Sabah and Sarawak Bumiputra have patronymics in the same fashion as Malays, using "bin" or "binti", while others have patrilineal surnames which are handed down unchanged from generation to generation. Minangkabau descendents use clan and tribal names passed down matrilineally. Kristang people usually have Portuguese, or, at least, more European-sounding names, including inherited family names. In fact, Arabs and Portuguese have common denominator in influence in names: Fatima, Omar, and Soraya. These names are common in Portugal