The Boston Herald has reported that Tiger Woods and Swedish fiance Elin Nordegren have called it quits. The Woods camp is firmly denying the rumor that Nordegren's sudden longing looks at new No. 1 Vijay Singh caused the blowup.
Rough times for Tiger, Elin
By Gayle Fee
Sunday, September 5, 2004
After a three-year love affair that was headed to the altar, Tiger Woods and his stunning Swedish model may have called it quits after a huge blowout, said a source close to Woods.
Woods' fiancee, Elin Nordegren, has been a noticeable no-show at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton this week, where long-time Tiger-watchers are buzzing with rumors of a break-up. Tiger began yesterday's Round 2 tied for the lead but fell two strokes behind surging Vijay Singh.
Woods proposed to the 24-year-old former model and one-time nanny in November after the Presidents Cup in South Africa, during a romantic campout at the Shanwari Game Preserve.
Details of the argument or whether the two could patch things up were still unclear.
But if history is any indicator, the intensely private couple who blasted the manager of the resort where they got engaged for leaking the news will not likely issue a statement.
Nordegren's father, a Swedish broadcasting Washington correspondent, was the only one in either family to talk publicly after Woods popped the question.
``She called me on the phone and said she couldn't be happier,'' Thomas Nordegren told the Stockholm newspaper, Expressen. ``She was overjoyed.
Golf gossip speculated that Woods' concentration has waned, as has his record, because Nordegren has been his focus.
But he has disagreed.
``It's so difficult out here,'' he said in January. ``You've got to have the right people around you, great family, great friends. Now with Elin in my life, it's just made it that much better.'
Rough times for Tiger, Elin
By Gayle Fee
Sunday, September 5, 2004
After a three-year love affair that was headed to the altar, Tiger Woods and his stunning Swedish model may have called it quits after a huge blowout, said a source close to Woods.
Woods' fiancee, Elin Nordegren, has been a noticeable no-show at the Deutsche Bank Championship in Norton this week, where long-time Tiger-watchers are buzzing with rumors of a break-up. Tiger began yesterday's Round 2 tied for the lead but fell two strokes behind surging Vijay Singh.
Woods proposed to the 24-year-old former model and one-time nanny in November after the Presidents Cup in South Africa, during a romantic campout at the Shanwari Game Preserve.
Details of the argument or whether the two could patch things up were still unclear.
But if history is any indicator, the intensely private couple who blasted the manager of the resort where they got engaged for leaking the news will not likely issue a statement.
Nordegren's father, a Swedish broadcasting Washington correspondent, was the only one in either family to talk publicly after Woods popped the question.
``She called me on the phone and said she couldn't be happier,'' Thomas Nordegren told the Stockholm newspaper, Expressen. ``She was overjoyed.
Golf gossip speculated that Woods' concentration has waned, as has his record, because Nordegren has been his focus.
But he has disagreed.
``It's so difficult out here,'' he said in January. ``You've got to have the right people around you, great family, great friends. Now with Elin in my life, it's just made it that much better.'
