Tiger, Elin Won't Spend Christmas Together...Divorcing

Unhappy Holidays: Tiger Woods to hang with pals while Elin Nordegren, kids will go to Sweden


Golf great Tiger Woods' family is heading to Sweden for the holidays, but he is not going with them - he's hanging with "the boys."

"He is very contrite, but he's also disoriented," a longtime friend of Woods told the Daily News on Tuesday. "He still can't believe this is happening."

Woods, whose image has been wrecked by reports he cheated on his wife, Elin Nordegren, with a bevy of babes, is stressed out but "not on sedatives," the source said.

The golfing great is looking for a safe harbor and "waiting for the storm to settle."

"He's been talking about going away with two or three of his friends, just the boys," said the friend, who has known Woods since the golfer was a teenager.

"They've been trying to figure out a place that would be safe."

Woods' posse includes his newly married pal, Byron Bell, whose name was drawn into the scandal when it was revealed he helped deliver New York party girl Rachel Uchitel to Australia for a reported rendezvous with Woods.

The other "boys," according to the source, are college pals from Stanford.

"Their wives aren't happy," he said.

Neither is Nordegren, who has said nothing publicly about her husband's "transgressions" - and who was not wearing her wedding ring in recent photographs.

"Elin is planning to take the kids to spend the holidays with her family in Sweden," the source said, who added that the $2 million island hideaway Nordegren bought before the scandal erupted is probably not where she will spend Christmas.

"Tiger and Elin bought that for her mom as a weekend place," the source said.

Woods' friend said it's likely the golfer cheated on Nordegren with more than the dozen or so women who have already emerged since Thanksgiving.

"But some of them probably don't want to come forward," he said. "The first couple of mistresses seemed special. They don't want to be No. 42."

Woods' holiday escape plans were revealed on the same day that:

- MSNBC.com reported that the golfer sent hush money to his honeys.

Woods wired anywhere from $5,000 to $10,000 a month to several of the busty babes and one lucky lady reportedly was on Tiger's tab to the tune of up to $20,000 a month, the network reported.

"The money comes via a wire transfer," one woman told MSNBC. "There's no contract about it, there's no discussion about what it's for, but it's implied that it's in exchange for keeping quiet about his affair."

MSNBC cited as their sources "several women who were involved with the golfer" but did not identify any of them.

- A report said Theresa Rogers, the latest woman linked to Woods, bragged to buddies that she showed the golfer "everything he needed to know to be a great lover."

"Theresa was crazy about Tiger but she didn't want to feel like a bought woman, a paid escort," a source told RadarOnline.com. "She just wanted to be the woman who schooled Tiger in the bedroom."

A forty-something South Florida bombshell, Rogers was outed earlier by Radar as one of the disgraced golf great's longest-serving gal pals.

Radar reported Rogers traveled extensively with Woods over a five-year period and took up with Woods, 33, before he married Nordegren, 29. She continued seeing him after he tied the knot, according to Radar.

That report could not be independently confirmed.





Elin Nordegren set to divorce Golfer



Embattled golf great Tiger Woods is now on the brink of losing his most important endorser: his wife.

Elin Nordegren, Woods' wife of five years, is reportedly planning to divorce the fallen icon - named the Associated Press' "Athlete of the Decade" on Wednesday.

"She's made up her mind," a source told People magazine. "There's nothing to think about. He's never going to change."

Nordegren, 29, has remained silent since the car crash last month that touched off Woods' sensational sex scandal.

Speculation over the fate of their marriage reached a fever pitch this week when the Swedish knockout was photographed without her wedding ring.

A source told MSNBC.com Nordegren went ringless to send her cheating hubby a message.

"She knew what she was doing when she stepped out and pumped gas without her wedding rings," the source said.

"There are plenty of people who would have filled the tank for her so she wouldn't even have to be photographed."

Added the source: "She and Tiger are living separately now, but she'll be making this split very open and official right after Christmas."

Nordegren is planning to flee to Sweden for the holidays with their two kids, while Woods will be staying home, a pal has said.

Nordegren's divorce plans emerged on the same day the Associated Press selected the scandal-scarred golfer as the "Athlete of the Decade."

Woods received 56 of the 142 votes cast by AP member editors since last month; more than half submitted their ballots after the car wreck that exposed Woods' shenanigans.

The editors focused only on Woods' astonishing exploits on the links: He won 64 tournaments, including 12 majors.

In yet another day of dizzying Tiger developments:

- Woods' high school sweetheart revealed Tiger's father was also a philanderer.

Dina Parr, 34, told E! News that a teenage Woods was crushed when he learned his beloved dad, Earl, was straying.

"He would just call crying and say, 'My dad is with another woman,' and that would be really all he could say," Parr said. "He would be so upset, so I just tried to be there for him and listen to him."

Tiger's close relationship with his father was the stuff of legend.

After the elder Woods passed away in 2006, Tiger described his dad as his "best friend and greatest role model."

But Parr said Woods never forgave his cheating papa for his infidelity.

"He loved his father,' said Parr, who dated Woods for three years in the mid 1990s.

"And I know that was the one thing about his dad that he could never get over. So yeah, it's interesting that it's turned out that he's doing the same thing."

- Tiger Jam, the Las Vegas-based charity concert held annually to benefit the Tiger Woods Foundation, has reportedly been cancelled.

The concert, which has brought millions to the foundation, has featured such A-list acts as Stevie Wonder, Prince and Bon Jovi.

"Do you think it's a good idea right now for Tiger Woods to be raising money for charity in Vegas?" a source told the sports blog, SportsbyBrooks.com.

Greg McLaughlin, the foundation's president, said there's "nothing new to announce regarding Tiger Jam at this time."

- Woods received some rare good news when his Dubai business partners announced they are moving forward with a plan to build a golf course he designed.

"The Tiger Woods Dubai . . . can confirm that it remains committed to the completion of its centerpiece al-Ruwaya golf course," developer Dubai Properties Group.

"Progress continues on the first golf course designed by Tiger Woods Design."

The completion date for the $1 billion course - ringed by 100 villas, 75 mansions, 22 palaces and a 360,000-square-foot boutique hotel - is unknown.



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Sources: NY Daily News