Tiger

[Laurence Horn]

At 9:50 AM -0600 2/19/10, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
>What interests me most about this subject is why his parents (or was
>it just the father?) selected the name "Tiger" for him.

FWIW, his given name is Eldrick.

LH

>  This is after all a 600 pound ferocious, predatory animal. Was the
>name a prediction, or perhaps a wish, that the son (Tiger Woods)
>would destroy all his opponents in a future golf career with the
>same finality as a tiger attacking and killing its prey?
>
>Gerald Cohen
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