Tiger Woods and his former wife Elin Nordegren shared a warm embrace at the PNC Championships last weekend, with the show of affection coming 14 years after their bitter divorce. They were married for six years before splitting up months after a cheating scandal which saw Woods' reputation unravel in full view of the public. In spite of their differences, they have managed to remain civil for the sake of their children.
Nordegren greeted Woods and his son Charlie after they came second at the PNC Championships, losing in a playoff to Bernhard Langer and his son Jason . Express Sport takes a look at their ill-fated relationship and the carnage that followed their acrimonious split in 2010..
. Woods met Nordegren when she was working as an au pair for golfer Jesper Parnevik in 2001. James Patterson, who published the biography Tiger, Tiger earlier this year, recalled that Woods was immediately smitten but too nervous to ask her out himself.
Instead, he asked a member of his team to pop the question on his behalf, a move which initially left Nordegren unimpressed. "That's the way he's lived his life," said Patterson in an interview with the Daily Mail . "Whatever Woods needed, whether it was room service or a wife, his first instinct was to say: 'Let's get a manager to do that'.
" Nordegren had a boyfriend in her native Sweden at the time but still agreed to go on a date with Woods. They quickly hit it off and tied the knot at a private ceremony in Barbados in 2004. The happy coup.
