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Tiger Woods was back at the White House this week, for the first time since going public with his relationship with Vanessa Trump.
The golf icon, 49, was pictured alongside Sen. Jim Banks of Indiana in a photo shared to X on Thursday, May 8.
“Met @TigerWoods at the White House today!” Banks wrote, and added the American flag and golf emojis.
Woods’ visit comes two months after going Instagram official with Trump, 47, the ex-wife of President Donald Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and roughly three months after he last appeared at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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In February, Woods was on hand to celebrate Black History Month and also attended meetings with President Trump, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and Public Investment Fund governor Yasir Al-Rumayyan regarding merging LIV Golf and the PGA Tour, Golfweek previously reported.
Just weeks later, a source close to the Trump family confirmed to PEOPLE that Vanessa, 47, and Woods had been quietly dating for several months.
It was not immediately clear why Woods made another trip to the White House this week, but the president confirmed that he had met with him, according to Golf Monthly.
Woods and Vanessa share a connection through their golf-star kids — his son Charlie, 16, and her daughter Kai, who turns 18 on Monday.
“Their kids are going places in golf and both are very disciplined about the sport. They have that in common,” an insider told PEOPLE in March, and added that the relationship was at the time “very casual.”
A second source close to Trump told PEOPLE that her relationship with someone of Tiger’s status is unsurprising.
“Vanessa has always gone for guys who are either well known or have something big going for them,” the source told PEOPLE.
Woods’ D.C. date comes as he continues to rehab a ruptured Achilles tendon, which kept him out of the Masters last month.
