“She Turned Him Down”: Tiger Woods Was Rejected By Elin Nordegren Years Before Their Controversial Relationship
Tiger Woods’s fall from grace after the 2010 divorce has always cast a dark shadow on his life. In his book Unprecedented, The Masters and Me, Woods also said that his “regret will last a lifetime.” Before the sudden fall in 2010, Woods was enjoying his too-good-to-be-true life with Elin Nordegren and his children.
The two had met nearly a decade before their marriage, but the start of their relationship was not as sweet as people might have expected. It wasn’t all sunshine and roses for the former couple at first as Nordegren showed Woods a cold shoulder on his initial approach.
Tiger Woods met Elin Nordegren in 2001. At that time, Woods was a rising star on the PGA Tour and held the claim of being a generational talent. He met Nordegren through Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik. Nordegeren was a nanny for Parnevik’s children and at the 2001 British Open, the two were introduced. Initially, when Woods approached Nordegren, the Swedish model was apprehensive of Woods’s proposal to start dating. As per friend, Sobieraj Westfall, Nordegren did not find it ideal to join the celeb circle. In the 2021 HBO documentary ‘Tiger’, Westfall said, “She had her opinions about celebrities and they were not high. And she’s very shy, so the idea of joining that world was not appealing to her.”
As a result, at first, the former model rejected Woods’ advances. “When he asked her out, I think she turned him down at first,” said Westfall.
