What is the name of Tiger Woods' former wife?

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Tiger Woods' former wife was Elin Nordegren. Nordegren is Swedish and worked as a model and nanny before marrying Woods. She met him through Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik's family, for whom she worked as an au pair. Woods and Nordegren began dating in the early 2000s and became engaged in 2003.

They married in October 2004 at the Sandy Lane resort in Barbados. The couple had two children, Sam and Charlie, before separating after extensive media coverage of Woods' infidelity in late 2009. Their divorce was finalized in Florida on August 23, 2010.

A common mix-up is calling her “Elin Woods,” a name she used during the marriage. Her full name is Elin Maria Pernilla Nordegren. Jessica Simpson and Rachel Uchitel were associated with separate celebrity-news stories involving Woods, but neither was his wife. Nordegren later had children with former NFL player Jordan Cameron.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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