Ron Woods has been involved in tennis for more than 50 years and has been a USPTA member since 1967. He was on the USPTA national board for 13 years. As a player, he attended the University of Houston on a tennis scholarship. Woods was the director of tennis at the Corpus Christi Country Club from 1970 to 2001, and then went on to serve as the executive director for the USPTA Texas Division until 2008.