Tiger Woods’ Dating History: The Golfer’s Marriage, Mistresses, Girlfriends and More

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Tainted love? Tiger Woods has had his fair share of ups and downs while searching for The One — including multiple cheating scandals.Woods burst onto the golf scene at a young age and by 20 years old he had turned professional.

One year later, in 1997, he earned the title of the greatest athletes the sport had ever seen when he won the Masters by 12 strokes.

His love life seemingly followed the successful pattern when he met Elin Nordegren in 2001 through fellow golfer Jesper Parnevik, whom she was nannying for at the time.While the World Golf Hall of Fame inductee appeared to be smitten with the Sweden native from the start, Nordegren took a little longer to warm up to dating someone in the limelight. “She had her opinions about celebrities and they were not high.

And she’s very shy so the idea of joining that world was not appealing to her,” the model’s friend Sandra Sobieraj Westfall revealed in the 2021 HBO documentary, Tiger. “And when he asked her out, I think she turned him down at first. … She gradually was convinced that she should give him a chance and so they did go out.”Two years after they first crossed paths, Woods popped the question and in October 2004, the couple said, “I do.” Their daughter, Sam, was born in June 2007 and was followed by son Charlie born in February 2009.That same year, Woods and Nordegren’s relationship took a step back when news broke that the professional athlete had been unfaithful. Rachel Uchitel was outed as Woods’ long-time mistress in November 2009, and she was just the tip of the iceberg.The five-time Masters champion checked into rehab later that year for sex addiction after more than 10 women came forward with stories of alleged affairs and hookups involving Woods.