Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods divorced

World's top golfer Tiger Woods on Thursday admitted his own misdeeds wrecked his marriage and he wished his former wife Elin Nordegren ‘the best in everything,’ in every thing. They issued a joint statement too, without blaming each other but saying that they would be committed for the upbringing of their ‘wonderful’ kids.

"I wish her the best in everything," Woods told reporters in Paramus in New Jersey two days after their divorce, and added, "You know, it's a sad time in our lives. And we're looking forward in our lives and how we can help our kids the best way we possibly can. And that's the most important thing."

Woods said, "As far as my game and practicing, that's been secondary… We're trying to get our kids situation to our new living conditions and how that's going to be. That's where our focus is going to be right now".

Nordegren has also broken her nine-month silence about the scandal involving her husband and said that she never suspected her husband. "I have been through the stages of disbelief and shock, to anger and ultimately grief over the loss of the family I so badly wanted for my children," she told People magazine.

The scandal not only affected Tiger Woods, but the entire sports industry, especially golf-based ones, and his endorsers. The total losses are estimated in billions.

Swedish model Elin Nordegren

Photo: Swedish model Elin Nordegren, the then fiancée of American golfer Tiger Woods, on the USS George Washington (CVN 73) in the Arabian Gulf on 4 March 2003.

Elin Nordegren, wife of professional golfer Tiger Woods, was born in Stockholm, Sweden. Nordegren worked on odd jobs to finance her studies. She started modeling in 2000, and appeared on the cover of Cafe Sport magazine in the summer of 2000.

Nordegren took a job in a Stockholm clothing store, Champagne, where she met Mia Parnevik, wife of Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik, who hired Nordegren as the nanny to their children. The job required her to move to U.S.A. She was introduced to Woods during the 2001 British Open, as he had been asking for a year to be introduced to Nordegren, who was seeing someone else at the time. In November 2003, Woods and Nordegren attended the Presidents Cup tournament in South Africa and became officially engaged.

They were married in October 2004 in Barbados. The guests who attended the marriage included Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Bill Gates.

In December 2009, her marriage to Woods was the subject of extensive media coverage after Woods admitted to infidelity, which had been revealed following his vehicle accident near the family's Florida home.

Tiger Wood's wife Elin Nordegren

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