If recent reports are to be believe, Tiger Woods might have a new romantic interest in 2025.
The 15-time major winner has endured a challenging year so far, having recently ruptured his Achilles while training at home. In February, the 49-year old lost his mother, Kultida, who passed away at 80.
Woods has embraced his support system amid on-and-off-the-green toils in recent years. He’s reportedly added a new element to that stronghold in recent months. Her surname might sound a little familiar.
With that, here’s what you need to know about the identity of Woods’ latest partner, Vanessa Trump.
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Who is Tiger Woods dating?
Woods is reportedly dating Vanessa Trump, according to The New York Post’s Steve Telling, Diana Glebova and Andrew Battifarano.
The two were friends prior to their romance, allegedly bonding over, among other things, being in the public eye.
Trump, 47, was previously married to Donald Trump Jr., a former member of his father, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Donald Trump Jr. currently serves as a trustee and executive vice president of the Trump Organization.
While details of Trump and Woods’ relationship remain murky, People Magazine reported that the couple has been quietly dating for “several months.”
Trump and her daughter, Kai, were seen attending Woods’ TGL match in February. Kai Trump also accompanied Woods during his run in The Genesis Invitational.
Who is Vanessa Trump?
Trump is the ex-wife of Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr. A former model signed to Wilhelmina Models, Trump had five children with her ex-husband: Kai, Donald III, Tristan, Spencer and Chloe. She was linked with Leonardo DiCaprio and Saudi ambassador to the United States Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Saud prior to her marriage with Donald Trump Jr.
Trump has remained fairly quiet in the years since her divorce. She did attend the Republican National Convention, watching along as daughter Kai delivered a speech.
How old is Vanessa Trump?
Trump is 47 years old. She was born in New York in 1977, growing up in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
She currently lives in Florida, the same state that Woods frequents.
Vanessa Trump kids
Trump has five children with Donald Trump Jr.: Kai, Donald III, Tristan, Spencer and Chloe.
Kai has garnered praise for her golf exploits, capturing a golf scholarship with Miami. She’ll join the team in Fall 2025.
Interestingly enough, Kai shares the same alma mater as Woods’ children, Sam and Charlie: The Benjamin School, which costs $38,595 a year to attend.
How did Tiger Woods meet Vanessa Trump?
It’s unclear quite how Woods and Trump came into contact with one another. They’ve been friends for some time, however, with the New York Post reporting that the pair’s relationship blossomed from a close-knit kinship to one another.
There are certainly enough overlapping elements in their lives to explain their rumored partnership. With Trump and Woods’ children sharing the same school, ostensibly there were ample opportunities for the duo to meet. That’s not to mention their likely analogous social circles.
Tiger Woods relationship with Donald Trump
Woods and Donald Trump has chummed around for some time, playing intermittent rounds of golf with one another throughout the past decade. The nature of their friendship was laid all the more bare in 2019 when Woods was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom during Trump’s first presidency.
Spoke to @TigerWoods to congratulate him on the great victory he had in yesterday’s @TheMasters, & to inform him that because of his incredible Success & Comeback in Sports (Golf) and, more importantly, LIFE, I will be presenting him with the PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 15, 2019
Woods batted away suggestions that his relationship with Donald Trump was worthy of scrutiny in 2018, shortly after it emerged that he and Donald Trump shared a few golf rounds. At the time, Trump’s rhetoric and policy towards immigrants proved especially harmful. Little has changed in that regard during his second term.
“You have to respect the office,” Woods said. “No matter who is in the office, you may like, dislike personality or the politics, but we all must respect the office.”
In fact, Woods praised Donald Trump for his golf skills.
“People don’t realise he’s that old and can rip it as far as he does,” Woods told reporters. “He keeps himself in pretty good shape and good health and has an inordinate amount of energy.”
Donald Trump attempted to serve as a mediator of sorts for negotiations between the PGA Tour and the Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund which owns, among other entities, LIV Golf. While the two sides are yet to reach an agreement, Woods also attended talks, further illuminating the pair’s link to one another.
Tiger Woods dating timeline
Woods has pursued romance with a number of women in the aftermath of his high-profile divorce from Swedish former swimsuit model and nanny Elin Nordegren in 2010. He famously dated Olympic gold medal-winning skier Lindsey Vonn in the early-to-mid 2010s.
In 2016, Woods started dating Texas-based wardrobe stylist Kristin Smith. The couple broke up later that year.
In 2017, Woods unveiled a new relationship, gallivanting publicly with Erica Herman for the first time. Herman and Woods shared a bit of history with one another: she worked as the general manager of Woods’ flagship restaurant, The Woods Jupiter, prior to their romance.
The couple stayed strong for more than five years. But in 2023, news broke that the pairing was no more. Herman filed a pair of lawsuits against her former partner—one of which claimed that Woods broke an oral tenancy agreement, the other declaring an arbitration clause contained within a non-disclosure agreement void. Herman cited the Speak Out Act and Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021, legislation passed to protect victims of sexual assault and harassment by voiding any NDAs that were signed before sexual assault or harassment have taken place in a relationship.
Herman never formally accused Woods of sexual assault. But court filings obtained by CBS News revealed that her lawyer marked “yes” when asked whether Herman’s case involved allegations of sexual abuse.
In Nov. 2023, Herman dropped the lawsuit, saying she was ”never a victim of sexual harassment or sexual abuse at the hands of Tiger Woods.”
