Reading Between The (Head)Lines

I believe there's more to this story than meets the eye. Dr. Archer is right; this is a get-back-at-you-because-I-can if I've ever seen one. Anyone who purchases a home will first have an inspection done so they know what they're buying before they buy. Purchasing a piece of property, regardless of the location, for $12 mill? No way. This is revenge, pure and simple. She knew before hand it was going to gather plenty of publicity, and she knew Tiger couldn't stop people from laughing, seeing what his ex was doing with his money which is now hers. She wants him to feel shame, just like she did.

Oh, and by the way, nice digs for a nanny, even with termites. Evidently she has forgotten where she came from. Whether right or wrong, that's not for me to say. I'm just saying that she obviously doesn't live in the real world and has no respect for money, which to me is very regrettable.

Well I hope she's not doing it to stick it to Tiger, it’s her money now. She just paid 12 million dollars for a piece of land. Not a very smart woman in that aspect. But she is a smart woman for getting married to Tiger Woods. Let’s be honest here, Tiger Woods was well known for going out having a good time and philandering before he was with Elin. I know she knew that, how could she not know, the man is the best Golfer of our time. He's constantly getting media coverage, she could of easily looked him up in the internet or heard about him on T.V. Elin knew what she was getting herself into, she wanted to be rich so she got with Tiger Woods, married him and popped out 2 kids with him, and knew eventually he'll cheat and she will catch him. She acts all innocent and like the victim, she pretends like they try to work things out, but eventually they get divorced and she gets her money, plus all the support from women saying she deserves every penny. All this woman did was invest a few years with Tiger Woods and she got a huge check. I think the number of women Tiger cheated on her with is irrelevant; she would have divorced him if he only cheated on her with one woman. The woman is a Gold Digger. She got with a rich man that she knew will cheat on her, and all she has to do is just wait. And now she's reportedly still or dated a billionaire. Come on now, this woman knows exactly what she is doing.

I am getting heartbroken when I hear about Florida, but…! I understand this woman’s feelings. She felt so betrayed… Obviously demolishing the whole building meant to her a punishment for what she had inherited… No matter how rich, or poor, every woman thirsts for love. This is more precious than all the gold in the world. She had all the riches, but lacked the meaning of her life with this man. The meaning in her action, is obvious. This is what he did to her and she feels completely demolished.

I'm not sure which is worse, this article or the idiotic comments.

Elin Nordegren bought prime beach front property in Florida with an old house on it which was not up to hurricane code and apparently had a termite infestation. A house which an architect recommended she have torn down and rebuild. A house which she opened up to Habitat for Humanity to salvage anything they could. How much do you think she would have paid if it was just a lot? Probably about $10 million.

Elin Nordegren was indeed working as a nanny for another wealthy professional golfer before she married Tiger Woods, but she is the daughter of a politician in Sweden (mother) and a successful radio journalist and writer as well as a visiting professor at New York University (father). Elin had begun studying psychology before coming to the US, and had plans to become a child psychiatrist. Hardly a child of a low-income family working a low-income job as the first commenter implies.

I have been an avid follower of golf for many years and I don't remember ever reading or hearing that Tiger was a well-known philanderer. In fact, I remember that he was in a long-term relationship with a fellow student at Stanford which ended a short while before he met Elin. The only gossip I ever heard was that he was cheap. His taste is mistresses is certainly cheap.

Tiger Woods betrayed and lied to his wife and the mother of his children for years as well as having exposed her to any number of sexually transmitted diseases, some of which could kill her. If she did in fact try to hit him with a golf club, you would hardly expect that kind of reaction from someone who knows their spouse is cheating on them.

She does deserve every penny she got from this marriage and she deserves more respect for the way she has behaved throughout the marriage, separation and divorce.

Dr. Archer's analysis of Elin's motives is very interesting. I confess I hadn't spent much time thinking about it, but the thoughts I was forming on it were, first, based on thinking that was their house, not a new one she bought, so that does change things.

My gut feeling about her, even before the scandal, was that she was a golddigger herself. Though I do empathize with her and do not in any way condone Tiger's ridiculous actions (if you have enough control to be the best golfer, use some of that for restraint!), I felt that his choice in subsequent women only further supported my feeling that Elin was probably also a golddigger who got in the door early by virtue of being a more respectable seeming one than the ones he found who were willing to get in the middle of his marriage. I believe she may have chosen her nanny profession just to have a good avenue to get close to money. I mean, someone who looks like her could work anyplace she wanted, so I think it's important to consider what she chose.

There are many respectable pedigreed golddiggers of affluent families. In fact, I'd venture to say there are more of those than the thinly veiled "VIP hostess" variety.

I want to believe swinging that golf club was her going after Tiger, not helping him out of the car. I can't help it. He deserved a good whack.

I agree that at least part of this waste of money is, as Dr. Archer says, a reaction to everything she has had to put up with during and since the scandal, but my strongest feeling about it is that it only further supports my belief that she may be a materialistic golddigger with no respect for money or the good you can do with it. It bothers me to see money wasted this way. She may give millions to charity, I have no idea, but this is a few million that could have been donated to an animal charity or other charity and made a lot of difference, and that makes me mad. That said, mansions are torn down all the time for their lots, and this was a choice lot. Still a criminal waste of money.

If I'd had all the options that money gives you to exact revenge, my head would have been spinning with the possibilities, and I think I'd have come up with something that would have been very amusing in the retelling for years to come.

In 2006 Tiger Woods purchased property in Florida for $40 Million and knocked down the 13 year-old existing home to build his dream home. Please direct me to the link of the article you wrote on that event Dr. Archer.

Shame and humiliation? The person who should feel that, and unfortunately very likely does not, is Tiger Woods, not his ex-wife.

hard to say her motives or if this is true...but if she had given the money to charity she would have been even more the better person.