<p>Elin certainly has hired a more competent public realtions team. It is fresh now, but by the weekend you most certainly will be sick of this story. </p>
<p>[Elin</a> Nordegren on Tiger Woods: ‘I’ve been through hell’ - Devil Ball Golf - Golf - Yahoo! Sports](<a href=“Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games - Yahoo Sports”>Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games - Yahoo Sports)</p>
<p>I for one will be interested in reading the article. From what others are reporting, she does not come across as bitter or belittling, just shoots it straight and does not apologize for not knowing. She seems to be going forward with her eggs in the “mom” basket, which, if I were in her shoes, would do the same thing. As for not spewing off in public about what a jerk he has been, I am not so sure I could have held my tongue like she has. She is a class act all the way. Another interesting tid bit, she has apparently been going to school part time for many years and is 40 credit hours from her degree which she plans on completing in a years time. Really amazing how private they were able to keep their lives until this volcano.</p>
<p>She sounds very classy to me. I wish her well and hope that she finds some happiness in the future.</p>
<p>Go Elin! :)</p>
<p>Tiger is a jerk.</p>
<p>One of the conditions of her financial settlement is that she won’t publicly trash her ex-husband, the cad. A few hundred million dollars makes it a little easier to be classy.</p>
<p>Honestly, I’ve just about heard my fill of Tiger divorce media coverage.</p>
<p>The title of the article should have been “I was married for a few years and had a few kids and because I am pretty I get to have $100 million.”</p>
<p>InterestedDad, reports are that the conditions of the financial settlement are not public and so not sure how you know what they are. </p>
<p>razorsharp, :eek: Just wow. Are you suggesting she was in it for the money? Sounds to me that she wanted to stay married and that Tiger’s disgusting behavior caused the divorce. She was not otherwise seeking divorce and a settlement and in fact, is devastated by his hurtful behavior and the breakup of her family which she had hoped to have for years to come.</p>
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<p>It was leaked about a month ago when the deal was hammered out by “sources close to the negotiations”. The former Ms. Woods is not the only party with PR flacks working to spin the story.</p>
<p>It would not be far fetched, however, that in such a settlement, where one of the spouses is a high profile public figure, that an agreement is worked out to not publicly share about their personal relationship.</p>
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<p>No, I suspect she actually loved him and probably didn’t know he was a jerk to the 14th (or more) degree. What I am suggesting is that she did little to justify being given 100 million dollars. She didn’t beat the best golfers in the world under extreme pressure. She didn’t give up a lucrative career that would have earned her 100 million dollars. She wasn’t married to him long enough to have a significant role in his career or in obtaining endorsements etc. In short, she did little to justify giving her so much money. All she did was be pretty and make Tiger regret his horrible behavior. That’s not worth 100 million dollars in any courtroom.</p>
<p>Most women who were not working during the marriage have to work after the divorce. Tiger’s wife will be wealthy for the rest of her life without having to do anything but pop out a few babies and be pretty.</p>
<p>why are we calling her ‘mrs. woods?’</p>
<p>granted, her other last name is scandanavian and hard to spell.</p>
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<p>This is what has got to be hard to deal with. She, along with most of America, believed his persona as dedicated family man while being a tough competitor. To think that it was all done to get millions in endorsement money is enough to make any girl angry.</p>
<p>razorsharp, when you asked what did Elin do to justify getting all that money…she was married to this man. She planned to devote her life to him. She also had children with him who will need to be supported. Is that not enough? The amount of money she received is commensurate with his wealth. If her husband was someone who earned $100K per year, she would be receiving less money. She received a percentage of his wealth that she should in a divorce, particularly in a case where he wronged her and there was emotional damage and all in a public eye. She planned to stay married and should be afforded a life within reason of that which she was living before divorcing. Yes, she is lucky she doesn’t have to work as a single mom who is divorced (many women are not so lucky) but she also didn’t have to work while married. She didn’t receive this amount of money because she is pretty. She happens to be pretty. So are women who are divorced from men who make a LOT less dough.</p>
<p>PS, I also just noticed you said she didn’t have a significant role in Tiger’s career. So? What should that have to do with how much a spouse is paid when a couple is divorced? Not all spouses have a role in their spouse’s careers. Also, being supportive of a spouse behind the scenes so that spouse can do his job is a role too.</p>
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<p>Child support is different from spousal support. Child support is set by state statute and it reflects the income of both spouses. What I object to is not the child-support but rather the spousal support portion of her award. She did nothing to earn Tiger Woods money. Possibly she is entitled to half of the wealth accumulated during the marriage, but I seriously doubt that amounts to a hundred million dollars or something close to that. Woods had his endorsements and winning pattern developed before he married her. women today are not helpless. They can work in it’s reasonable to expect following a divorce that both spouses work. She will never have to work. In essence she has won the lottery.</p>
<p>razosharp - Well, I for one don’t really value the ‘work’ that Tiger Woods does. I feel the real question should be what the heck did he do to earn all that money? However, earn it he did. In the meantime, Ms. Nordegren is working on her degree, planning a career as a therapist and raising his children</p>
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<p>You do not know what she did or did not do for Tiger Woods during their time together, you have no idea what kind of agreement they had between themselves that may or may not have been breeched. You think that because you see nothing of value to you there is nothing there. Tiger may see it very differently.</p>
<p>I know that she did not go on the golf course and win tournaments. I know that Tiger was the worlds greatest golfer before he was married and his game slipped during his marriage. Maybe she owes him money for distracting him from his game.</p>
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<p>Amen, Woody! Why should someone get paid untold millions playing a game and hawking products?</p>
<p>Like all (well, probably close to all) extremely rich people who get married, there was a prenup, which supposedly gave Ms. Nordegren $20 million after 10 years of marriage.</p>
<p>This was supposedly modified after the you-know-what hit the fan, where she could supposedly get up to $75 million if she stayed with him another 7 years, and prevents her from telling her side of the story.</p>
<p>She obviously did not stay for seven more years.</p>
<p>The $100 million figure is pure speculation, based I think on what some high-profile Hollywood divorces cost, such as Steven Spielberg’s. Their state of residence is Florida, which is not a community property state, so she would not be automatically entitled to half his earnings during their marriage, which probably would be $100 million or more. She is only entitled to whatever the prenup gives her plus whatever she can negotiate in court.</p>
<p>There’s no reason for her to get that kind of money, unless Tiger wants her to. Silence can only be worth so much - what can come out now that is any worse than what we already know?</p>
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So if you were a world-caliber athlete you would play for free, just because you love the game, right? And you would of course turn down all those endorsement dollars - commercialism is so crass.</p>
<p>Uh huh. Sure you wold.</p>