Tiger Woods & Elin Nordegren Mulling Leaving the Country

Fox News ^ | 12/09/09 | Hollie McKay 

[BunnySlippers]

Now a source close to Nordegren's family tells Pop Tarts that the two are considering putting even more distance between themselves and Tiger's cheating scandal.

The insider says the couple is planning to leave the country “very soon.”

“Elin and Tiger are planning to temporarily move closer to Sweden, possibly to a private island, to get away from it all,” the insider said.

[wagglebee]

The reality is, most Swedish women's skin starts looking like leather by the time they're 40 from all the smoking and sun.

I think Tiger planned on a neverending supply of blondes in their late 20s and early 30s.

[carmody]

I agree. This is Tiger’s camp trying to salvage his reputation and brand. She is leaving for Sweden without him. Tiger may follow and rent his own house but she is gone. She doesn’t need him.

[K-oneTexas]

But they pay a lower rate and they pay a foreign country’s taxes.

Our Congress raising rates will still give him a break the average American will not receive.

[Alberta's Child]

Yeah, this will work real well if he never plans on playing golf professionally again. If he’s going to continue his career, he’s going to have to face the music and answer reporter’s questions one way or another. I’m not saying it’s right, it’s just the way it is.

Here's another increasingly intriguing side to that whole thing . . .

Why hasn't Tiger Woods been seen in public since that incident?

[3niner]

I can’t see any reason she’s given for him to go tom-catting.

She has borne him two babies. For some men, the only excuse they need is for their wife to be "unavailable" for a period of time.

[wagglebee]

Why hasn't Tiger Woods been seen in public since that incident?

Yeah, you would think that his PR people would have him out doing stuff with his wife (if she would go along with it) and his kids.

[N. Theknow]

If he’s going to continue his career, he’s going to have to face the music and answer reporter’s questions one way or another.

Tiger doesn't answer reporters' questions now when he plays poorly.

He just hops in his car and leaves without comment.

Tour officials have never said one word about this behavior as far as I know.

[MinuteGal]

Don't worry. The Woodsies won't be living in rural isolation for too long on a freezing island rock pile. Neither one is an unsophisticated country bumpkin type.

As they sang in WW1......"How ya gonna keep them down on the fjord after they've seen Dis-nee?"

Leni

[Dr. Sivana]

For some men, the only excuse they need is for their wife to be "unavailable" for a period of time.

Good point. He should get a hobby.

[School of Rational Thought]

Swedish star: 'Tiger tried to recruit me as a lover' http://www.thelocal.se/23742/20091209/

[Dixie Yooper]

Way to go everyone! You have chased off our next Ryder Cup, President's Cup and all the tax revenue of any future earnings he may have been capable of. I'm already starting to feel the effects of Tiger-less Tournament Withdrawal. I hope this is covered in the new Healthcare Plan...

[geologist]

We are told by psychologist's ... Men have a sexual thought every 8-12 seconds.

Normal women are not like that. It has long been known that sex is sex; and love is not necessary: where men are concerned; and perhaps a few women seeking love.

Tiger is away from home for days at a time rather often. Who is to know if he seeks company? Or so he thought.

It is the same old story ...of a traveling salesman, or a sailor with a girl in every port, and all the ROCK STAR BANDS, many of Hollywood successful people. Rich guys too., etc.

[School of Rational Thought]

Swedes love the black guys too.

It will be fish in a barrel.

[bmwcyle]

A black man’s kryptonite.

[Gunflint]

Tour officials have never said one word about this behavior as far as I know

...Tiger once mentioned that his caddie wanted to wear short pants when it was hot. The Tour had a rule against caddies wearing shorts. Tiger said, “Well, Stevie and I will be playing on the European Tour next year, then.”

The rule was changed.

[OldDeckHand]

"But they pay a lower rate and they pay a foreign country’s taxes."

Only on income earned abroad. Tiger presumably will still play golf in the states - after all, NIKE isn't going to pay him $50 million a year to not be on American TV. Any income at that level that is earned in the US is still taxed at the top marginal rate.

I don't remember the exact number, but to qualify for the exemption you have to live abroad over a certain number of days out of the year - I think it's more than 330. That means he couldn't play more than 3/4 tournaments in the US. That's not going to happen.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Why hasn't Tiger Woods been seen in public since that incident?"

Well, if they did have a fight he might have some "scars" from that fight and not the emotional ones either.

[CougarGA7]

I vote for the Stanley Hotel... they could rent the whole thing for the winter.

Regit Regit Regit

[dfwgator]

I vote for the Stanley Hotel.

You mean Stanley "...as in the power drill"

[Locomotive Breath]

Ferryboat? Yeah, that’s going to stop the paparazzi.