Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump’s pairing is quite the scramble.
The professional golfer, who holds five Masters Tournament wins as well as four PGA Championship titles, hasbeen dating Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-wife for several months, multiple outlets have reported.
Vanessa, 47, was married to President Donald Trump’s son for 12 years before she filed for divorce in 2018. The former couple, however, have maintained friendly terms as they coparent their five children together.
As the former pair said in a statement announcing their 2018 separation, “We have five beautiful children together and they remain our top priority.”
Tiger, for his part, separated from his then-wife Elin Nordegren—with whom he shares kids Sam, 17, Charlie, 16—in 2010 following reports of his infidelity. They finalized their divorce that year and he went on to date Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn from 2012 to 2015, though was most recently linked to Erica Herman, who was a manager at his Woods Jupiter restaurant.
The couple split in 2022 after five years together, with Erica later filing a $30 million lawsuit against the athlete for allegedly being “tricked” into leaving the couple’s Florida residence to instigate their breakup. The lawsuit was dropped in July 2023, per documents obtained by E! News.
Keep reading to learn more about Vanessa, and her relationship with Tiger.
How long have Vanessa Trump and Tiger Woods been dating?
According to multiple outlets, Vanessa and Tiger have been seeing each other romantically for several months.And while President Trump nor his son have spoken out about the relationship as of yet, the president previously gave the golfer his stamp of approval, calling Tiger a “great guy.”
“We are in the presence of a true legend—an extraordinary athlete who has transformed golf and achieved new levels of dominance,” Trump said while presenting Tiger with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2019. “He’s also a great person.”
When did Vanessa Trump marry Donald Trump Jr.?
Vanessa and Don Jr. tied the knot in 2005, after two years together. In fact, the couple were introduced by Don Jr.’s father at a fashion show in 2003, where the Apprentice alum made sure they made acquaintances.
“I’m at this fashion show,” Vanessa recalled to the New York Times in 2006. “Donald Trump comes up to me with his son: ‘Hi, I’m Donald Trump. I wanted to introduce you to my son Donald Trump Jr.’”
Then, minutes later, Vanessa added,“Donald comes back up to me again, [and says] ‘I don’t think you’ve met my son Donald Trump Jr.’”
She remembered responding to the now-President, “Yeah, we just met five minutes ago.”
Off-put by the interaction, however, Vanessa and Don. Jr didn’t truly hit it off until a mutual friend’s birthday party a few weeks later. She added to the newspaper, “We talked for an hour.”
The couple married at Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida.
Does Vanessa Trump have kids?
Throughout their 12 years together, Vanessa and Don Jr. welcomed five children: Kai, 17, Donald Trump III, 16, Tristan, 13, Spencer, 12 and Chloe, 10.
Like Vanessa’s boyfriend Tiger, her kids are extremely interested in the game of golf. After all, Kai, her eldest daughter, is already committed to playing the sport at University of Miami following her 2026 high school graduation and ranks among the top 200 in the sport for women in Florida, per Sports Illustrated.
Where is Vanessa Trump from?
Vanessa was born Vanessa Haydon in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, per the New York Times, to Bonnie Haydon, who ran a modeling agency, and Charles Haydon, a lawyer. She attended the Dwight School on the Upper West Side, where she played tennis, before moving on to attend college at Marymount Manhattan.
Though one of her best friends described her as not being focused on “social advancement,” to the New York Times, Vanessa’s classmates saw fame in her future. As such, they voted her “Most Likely To End Up On Ricki Lake,” referring to the then-popular daytime talk show, as a superlative in her yearbook, per a 1998 New York magazine feature on Leonardo DiCaprio, whom she was rumored to be dating at the time. (A publicist for Leo at the time told New York that the Titanic star “never” dated Vanessa.)
What does Vanessa Trump do for a living?
Vanessa has been known as a socialite, often attending high profile charity events, per the New York Times. However, she was signed with Wilhelmina Models in the aughts and briefly moonlighted as an actress, appearing in the opening credits of Something’s Gotta Give in 2003.
She also dabbled in fashion design, starting the now-defunct handbag brand, La Pochett in 2011, which then-sister-in-law Ivanka Trump celebrated on Facebook at the time.
More recently, Vanessa has been focused on motherhood, with her biography on Instagram reading, “Balancing motherhood of 5 amazing kiddies!”
What is Vanessa Trump’s net worth?
Vanessa’s former father-in-law Donald Trump has assets that put him in the net worth range of $6.1 billion, Forbes reported at the end of 2024. Meanwhile, Vanessa and Don Jr.’s daughter, Kai, currently holds a $1.2 million valuation on the On3 NIL list for college sports, two years before she is set to begin college.
To learn more about the love lives of the Trump family, keep reading…
Donald Trump
Following marriages to Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, Donald Trump met third wife Melania Trump at a 1996 New York Fashion Week fete.
“It was a big fashion party that my friend organized, fashion week, and he invited me,” the native of Mesto, Slovenia recalled on a 2016 episode of On the Record With Greta Van Susteren. “That’s how we met with Donald.”
After marrying in a lavish 2005 wedding at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, they welcomed son Barron Trump the following year.
Donald Trump Jr.
Months after ending his 13-year marriage to model Vanessa Haydon in 2018, Donald Trump Jr.—Trump’s eldest child with first wife Ivana—began dating former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle.
Having known each other for years, Guifoyle said she realized instantly the father to Kai (who made a speech at the 2024 Republican National Convention) Donald III, Tristan, Spencer and Chloe was her person.
When they went on their first date, “that was it,” Guilfoyle told Metropolitan Palm Beach magazine in 2022. “Sparks. In fact, we have been together from that night on, happily ever after!”
The couple got engaged on New Year’s Eve 2020. But four years later, Don Jr. confirmed their split. He’s since been linked to Bettina Anderson.
Ivanka Trump
As Jared Kushner recalled in his book Breaking History: A White House Memoir, he was introduced to Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter with ex Ivana, in 2007 after her father suggested they meet to discuss real estate.
“The conversation soon turned to NASCAR, New Jersey diners, and other unlikely interests that we had in common,” he wrote. “That led to a second lunch at my favorite Indian restaurant, the Tamarind Flatiron & Tea Room on Twenty-Second Street, where we talked for three hours.”
Despite a brief split, they finalized their partnership in 2009—marrying at New Jersey’s Trump National Golf Club—and welcomed daughter Arabella in 2011, followed by sons Joseph in 2013 and Theodore in 2016.
Eric Trump
When North Carolina native Lara Trump was introduced to Eric Trump, the politician’s younger son with ex-wife Ivana, she knew she was at the height of something.
“When I first met Eric, I did not know who his dad was,” she recalled on her podcast The Right View of meeting the 6-foot-5 Georgetown University grad in 2008. “I didn’t know his last name initially. I just knew I met some really tall guy out.”
Married at Mar-a-Lago in 2014, they welcomed kids Luke in 2017 and Carolina in 2019. A television producer when she started dating her future husband, Lara served as a campaign advisor for Trump in 2016 and 2020 before being elected as co-chair of the Republican National Committee in March 2024.
Tiffany Trump
Tiffany Trump—the Apprentice alum’s only child with second wife Maples—hard launched her relationship with motorcycle heir Michael Boulos in January 2019, providing her Instagram followers with a glimpse at their shared holiday celebrations weeks earlier. Announcing their engagement two years later, the pair wed at Mar-a-Lago in November 2022, the Georgetown Law graduate labeling the experience “magical” in a social media post.
Trump revealed his daughter’s pregnancy during a Oct. 10 campaign event, telling the crowd at the Detroit Economic Club, “She’s an exceptional young woman. And she’s going to have a baby. So that’s nice.”
Barron Trump
Though Barron Trump, the President’s now-adult son with third wife Melania, hasn’t publicly addressed his dating life, his father suggested the New York University student isn’t prioritizing romance at the moment.
“I’m not sure he’s there yet,” Trump said, when asked by businessman Patrick Bet-David on his PBD Podcast if the college freshman is “good with the ladies in school.”
While Trump said he didn’t believe his youngest had a girlfriend, he raved, “He’s very, very smart. He’s a good student .. goes to a great school and does really well. And he’s a very nice guy.”
Vanessa Trump
Years after finalizing her divorce from Don Jr., the former model is teeing off a new romance, she and Tiger Woods made their romance Instagram official in March 2025.
As for what Vanessa’s former in-laws think of her new man, President Trump previously made it clear he’s nothing short of a big fan, with the Masters champion even attending a White House Black History Month event in February 2025. And he previously bestowed Tiger with the Presidential Medal of Freedom back in 2019.
“We are in the presence of a true legend—an extraordinary athlete who has transformed golf and achieved new levels of dominance,” Trump said at the time. “He’s also a great person.”
