Who is Tiger Woods' girlfriend?

Tiger Woods met Erica Herman in 2017 and the couple made their first public appearance at the Presidents Cup. In 2023, it was revealed they had split up. 

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Tue, 31 Oct 2023
Who is Tiger Woods' girlfriend?

It doesn't appear Tiger Woods is currently dating anyone after splitting up with Erica Herman. 

Tiger and Herman made their first appearance as a couple in September 2017 during the Presidents Cup. 

Herman was pictured wearing a 'players spouse' credential which is of course reserved for the significant others of players and captains. 

It appeared that exactly one month later the couple made the official announcement they were boyfriend and girlfriend as Tiger shared an image of the couple at a Dodgers game alongside his caddie Joe LaCava

Since that appearance, Herman was constantly spotted by Tiger's side.

Herman was dressed in Tiger's trademark red and black at the 2019 Masters when the big cat triumphed at Augusta National, winning his 15th major championship and fifth green jacket. 

She was also by Tiger's side when he was tearfully inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022 by his daughter Samantha Woods

Herman was said to have been a huge catalyst behind Tiger's most recent comeback after his near fatal car crash in February of 2022. 

She is said to have struck a strong relationship with the aforementioned Samantha and Tiger's son Charlie Woods

Herman was reported to have moved into the Woods' Jupiter home in 2019. 

Tiger, 47, previously spoke of how there was a 50 per cent chance his leg would need to be amputated after he crashed his luxury Genesis SUV in the Los Angeles hills. 

Once it was confirmed that Tiger would leave the hospital with his leg just about intact, he said that began working on whether he could still "use my hands". 

Tiger said Herman and his friend Rob McNamara would throw tennis balls for him to catch for hours on end as he was laid up. 

How did they meet? 

Tiger met Herman when she was an undergrad at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. 

She was studying political science and wanted to become a lawyer. 

Herman is from New Jersey. Her age is not known but she is thought to be at least a decade younger than Tiger. The New York post have reported that in 2023 she was 38 years old. 

Herman also worked as a general manager at the Woods' restaurant, The Woods Jupiter in Florida, for several months in 2017. 

She was also pictured with Tiger when he admitted reckless driving after being found asleep behind the wheel of his Mercedes in 2017. 

Who else has Tiger dated?

Tiger's relationship with Herman was not the first after he got divorced from Elin Nordegren.

In 2013, Tiger dated Olympic champion in Lindsey Vonn for three years in what was his first "public" relationship since the split. 

Dozens of other women have claimed to have had relationships with Tiger after he was exposed as a serial cheater and sought treatment for sex addiction. 

Rachel Uchitel was at the heart of Tiger's cheating scandal in 2009. In the 2021 HBO documentary 'Tiger', she spoke about the affair. 

Tiger is also said to have trysts Jamie Jungers, Cori Rist, Jaimee Grubbs and Kristin Smith before dating Herman. 

Erica Herman takes Tiger Woods to court

In March 2023 it was reported that Erica Herman filed a lawsuit against the golf legend asking to be removed from the non-disclosure agreement she signed. 

TMZ reported that she cited a law that allows NDAs to be voided if there was proof of sexual assault or harassment. 

It was not immediately clear if she was accusing Tiger of wrongdoing. 

Herman signed the NDA in August 2017 when she first started dating Tiger, according to court documents. 

She claimed the NDA could not be enforced because of the Speak Out Act, which was put in place to protect sex assault and harassment victims. 

In a court filing, her attorney wrote: 

"Because of the aggressive use of the Woods NDA against her by the Defendant and the trust under his control, the Plaintiff is unsure whether she may disclose, among other things, facts giving rise to various legal claims she believes she has.  
"She is also currently unsure what other information about her life she may discuss or with whom. There is therefore an active dispute between the Plaintiff and the Defendant for which the Plaintiff needs a clarifying declaration from the Court."

Herman sues Tiger Woods for $30m 

It also emerged that separate to this legal action, Herman sued Tiger in October 2022. 

Herman filed a complaint against the trust that Woods controls - the Jupiter Irrevocable Homestead Trust - stating that the entity was in violation of the Florida Residential Landlord Tenant Act. 

She asked for more than £30m in damages. 

The complaint states that she was tricked by 'agents of the Defendant' to pack a suitcase for a short vacation and when she arrived at the airport she was locked out of the residence. 

Furthermore, the court filings state: 

"Even worse, Defendant's agents removed Plaintiffs personal belongings from her Residence and misappropriated in excess of $40,000 in cash that belonged to her, making scurrilous and defamatory allegations about how she obtained the money."

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