Marcus Oscarsson of GlobalPost.com has the first extensively detailed portrait of the new Swedish island home of the wife of Tiger Woods, Elin Nordegren. Some of those details indicate that it may in fact be impractical for Woods and his family to live there in winter, as the house has no indoor plumbing from October to May.
(Elin’s new home enjoys ideal winter conditions. For a sherpa.)
Elin Nordegren Woods’ new home is so private that in winter you need a hydrocopter to reach it. Located on an island in the Stockholm archipelago, Tiger Woods’ wife’s new estate is surrounded by miles of ice. Nordegren Woods paid $2.3 million for the estate, which includes a main house, three small guest houses, two outdoor storehouses, a private beach, a mini-harbor and a boathouse sauna.
As noted, during the winter water passage is often impossible to the island. Even in the best of conditions, a two-hour ferry from Stockholm is only available three times per week. In other words, the paparazzi would have an exceedingly difficult time reaching the area. If at all.
“When it is ice, the only way to get here is by hydrocopter,” (neighbor Urban) Andersson said. A hydrocopter is an amphibious aircraft-propelled catamaran often used in arctic coastal regions during times of freeze and ice. “During the winter time, almost no one lives on the island,” he said.
Nordegren’s extended family lives in neighboring Vaxholm, a city of 4,800. In ideal conditions, you can also catch a 30-minute water taxi to Elin’s island estate. But in winter, again, forget it. And although Elin dropped over $2M+ on the manse, neighbors on the island report that the house needs work. Lots of it.
“Tiger and Elin have a lot to do before the house reaches a nice level. They took over the house as it was,” opined a neighbor who asked to remain anonymous. “If you ask me, they need to paint it both outside and inside. The interior can certainly be improved as well as the bathroom and the garden. It is all rusty and worn. But I guess they can afford it.”
The house is also not private, as neighbor Andersson notes, “there is almost a full view from neighboring houses.” More bad news: there are no stores of any kind on the island. Any food or other necessary items are available only on the mainland.
Most importantly, indoor plumbing can only be used on the island from May to October.
Reason: fresh groundwater well levels are so shallow in the winter that if too much fresh water is used, salt water will contaminate all wells on the island. So all fresh water has to be transported to the island in winter.
As for golf, when weather permits, there are two courses available in the area with both being a little less than an hour boat and car ride.
However, Oscarsson reports that summers, “bring a vivid tourist life to the island as the owners of the 60 estates arrive to spend their vacations.”
Stenaake Johansson, the island homeowner association’s chairman: “Everybody is welcome here. In the summer time we have, for example, soccer school and midsummer festivities, and I hope the Woods family would like to participate in our summer activities.”
After reading Oscarsson’s piece, I think it’s a longshot at best that Woods and his family will end up in the island home anytime soon. Perhaps the family could stay in Stockholm or Nordegren’s hometown of Vaxholm, but living on the island would certainly be roughing it.
Then again, there is probably no man on earth more obsessed with privacy than Woods. And with his means, I guess you can’t rule out anything.
9:30 pm on December 13th, 2009
Do not care. Can you start a different site and move all your Tiger content over there? The whole damn front page is nothing but Tiger coverage, it’s overkill.
9:36 pm on December 13th, 2009
I really liked tiger not just for his golf game but because he was such a good role model for all the young people. It makes me ill to see him with all those scanky ho berries. I’m 53 years old and wouldn’t waist my time with any of them. I would be afraid of some type of critters crawling out of there. If I was Elin I would be afraid of contracting some type of fungus the mungis. He had such a beautiful family I just don’t get it.
9:39 pm on December 13th, 2009
Second that motion
9:44 pm on December 13th, 2009
To get the tiger news out of here that is. This site is one of the best without tiger
9:56 pm on December 13th, 2009
Listen Tiger is so rich (augmented further by saving on tips) he probably has a one-of-a-kind teleporter…
10:47 pm on December 13th, 2009
why do we pass judgement so easy when we all will be held responsible for all we do and did at the end of our lives.No one is perfect and the only roll models should be your parents or people in your life,not proathletes.Why can’t a school teacher or police officer be something to want be like and not a golfer or football player. Tiger did what 99% of all humans do every day 365.
10:53 pm on December 13th, 2009
He was gonna be living in the outhouse anyway…. Rumor is he’s holed up on the boat, which, as pointed out by somebody earlier, would make sense.
I, on the other hand, would view winter quarantine with 2/5’s of the Swedish Bikini Team as easy duty, whether I have to piss in the snow or not.
11:25 pm on December 13th, 2009
the houses are very beautiful & look like in the fairy tale,http://www.topnflnews.com/
11:52 pm on December 13th, 2009
Are you kinding me the house looks like a piece of junk for what she paid. I’ve seen better farm houses in the country. The land must be very expensive and scarce in Sweden.
11:57 pm on December 13th, 2009
@ Leon - it’s not 50% slope, so it’s good to go !!!
11:58 pm on December 13th, 2009
Sweden is not Denmark…..
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2:14 am on December 14th, 2009
“Why can’t a school teacher or police officer be something to want be like and not a golfer or football player”-Richard
What…a child molesting teacher or a Tiger beating cop…jeez
3:48 am on December 14th, 2009
So what! Petty and uninteresting. No need to pry so much into Tiger and Elin’s private life! Next sports story? Enough already! BORING!!!!!!
4:45 am on December 14th, 2009
Man Tiger is big time news now, just in another way. more rartings for the sleezy and the slimy. I hope elin stays with him and they work it out. Afterall the Clintons did it and he was the President, hahahahahaha. God love America.
5:56 am on December 14th, 2009
what right is it of ours to bad mouth and judge tiger its noones business but him and his wifes leave the damn man alone and shut up
7:04 am on December 14th, 2009
Guilty or not, it’s his life, his problems, his monety, his lack of comon sense etc. It’s best to back away and allow this family to resolve their issues to best of their abilities.
7:29 am on December 14th, 2009
Pray for Tiger and family, they are human and this is a very emotional time for Elin. She just gave birth not long ago.
8:04 am on December 14th, 2009
Tiger you ROCK BABY! Welcome to the real world.
8:07 am on December 14th, 2009
Just looking back at the top, yes it is overkill, that’s the nature of this cousntry, if we weren’t reading, watching, or listening to it, they’d quit talking, so who’s fault is it really? We ask to be fed the very b.s. we complain about having to read!! And, about the “skanky hos”, the whole situation reeks of sex addiction to anyone working in mental health settings. But, above all, these two have a gorgeous family, worthy of redemption, as is Tiger. Or shall we promote more of the dysfuntionality so prevalent is THIS country.? I’d go 2!
8:10 am on December 14th, 2009
I agree with TRW we’re always sticking our noses in someone elses business, people need to get a life.
8:22 am on December 14th, 2009
It would be relatively easy to build heated water holding tanks that would supply water year round. While relatively expensive for us normal peons, multi-millionaire Elin would have no problem affording such an addon. Also, desalinization systems could also be explored since one home is not a huge water user. Hey people, Tiger and Elin Woods are CELEBRITIES. When a celebrity steps out of line it makes the news.
Enough about this private life invasion whining. Give
me 500 million plus and you can watch me 24/7 in a glass house. Any takers?
8:47 am on December 14th, 2009
It is easy for a bunch of nobody’s who post comments on a blog to pass judgement on celebrities and their life choices. It is a fact that human beings in general are weak. It is another fact that males are much more so, and will very quickly submit to temptation.
The life of a billionaire celebrity is quite different from yours and mine, making our opinions of the situation irrelevant.
In our lives, temptation such as this is seldom seen….if ever. We live lives of anonymity and perform our everyday functions with little outside interruption.
This is quite different of Tiger, who is no different from a movie star or head singer of a famous rock band. Temptation rears its ugly head daily with folks like these, and NOBODY on these thread can possibly put themselves in that situation, much less comment intelligently about it.
My guess, that’s right…guessing is our only option as it relates to this story, is Elin had to have some feelings that this would not be the perfect marraige, especially considering she is a celebrity herself. In fact, there has been no talk about Elin. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they had some sort of agreement, knowing there would be transgressions. That kind of information wouldn’t produce the meaty headlines, however.
Bottom line is this. To the common man or woman, what Tiger did was a disgrace. With the ability to live quite, private lives with much less temptation, it is easy to see why. Tiger and others like him don’t have that luxury. Sure they made a choice of fame and fortune over anonymity and middle class status, but a different life they lead none the less.
When criticizing the likes of Tiger blindly I challenge you to ask yourself why you would expect different from these rich, successful, celebrity superstars when the leaders you elect to run this country are likely worse?
9:05 am on December 14th, 2009
I almost forgot. The pressure for these multi-million dollar athletes to get married and show some level of commitment is also tremendous. Can you imagine how the media would spin it if Tiger remained single and was known to sleep around (which would be his perogative)?
Tiger was painted in a box from the start, with the media looking for any angle to get a juicy story. If Tiger doesn’t get married, he is attacked for not choosing a life of commitment necessary for a celebrity of his stature and his obligations to those who view his as an idol. So he gets married. What happened? This billionaire celebrity who is faced with daily temptation couldn’t keep it in his pants. He knew that before he got married. If she knew him at all, Elin likely know as well.
Tiger, from the common citizen in me…the one who is loyal to his wife and family and works hard to make a humble living…I consider your a dirt bag. However the realist in me, the one who understands you live in a different world, feels somewhat bad for you.
Good luck with whatever happens.
10:02 am on December 14th, 2009
now that tigers sponsors dumped him ,and with all his money he’s qualified to be in polotics.
10:10 am on December 14th, 2009
Tiger is the only reason I visit this site. Keep up the good work.
10:45 am on December 14th, 2009
First of all fishman your a big mouth shutup and let the man and wife take care of there own peoblems. This a good man that went off the trail. It happens everyday. When are own pres. Clinton the man that ran the free world can do it wright in the whitehouse and no one seems to care? That shows you that the world has changed ! Like it or no its the truth!!!!! GOOD LUCK MR WOODS AND THE BEST TO THE BEST!!!!!!!!
11:31 am on December 14th, 2009
Mr. Woods I support you 100%. I apologize for the media onslaught, however, it should end soon once another celebrity does something that is news worthy. I won’t judge you. Golf and marriage are seperate, and since I am not married to you I will stay out of your personal business. I never asked you to be a role model. My child never asked you to be his role model, other than watch your swing. People love judging others, kind of like creating a giant smoke screen so that people don’t see the crap they are doing.
This is getting old and boring.
11:37 am on December 14th, 2009
He is sick. He is a loser who will never change. The news is also sick for not dropping him.
11:46 am on December 14th, 2009
When we see a celebrity, our only concern should be, ‘Does this person meet my criteria of quality entertainment?” We don’t know their inner workings. Too bad, but becoming rich and famous has restrictions. Sorry you blew it Tiger. Pretty stupid if you ask me. Elin…whatever love means to you, go by it. For me, fidelity is the ultimate of showing love to an individual… Being able to resist temptation (a mistake in our creation) is the ultimate in honor.
Bless all faithful men.
11:52 am on December 14th, 2009
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11:55 am on December 14th, 2009
Coordinates for Elin’s new Home
59°28′25.19″N
18°28′3.33″E
4:23 pm on December 14th, 2009
This is more specific as to were Vaxholm is:
Upplands-Väsby [this the county bame]
Ed, Fresta, Hammarby, Vallentuna Angarn, Frösunda, Kårsta, Markim, Orkesta, Vada, Vallentuna, Össeby-Garn, Garn, Vaxholm Vaxholm. Vaxholm is near a lot of bases or regiments; which explains Nordegren as a sailor’s name or military name and the same applies to Holmberg as the same. Now comes the real question - what is her real name? Nordegren would be a last name bur her real name may look like mine as Masse Nördstrom and his real name was Mattis Nilsson (son of Nils) and his son was born as Anders Massesson who changed it to Anders Mattsson and his son was my ancestor as Mattis Andersson who later changed that when he married (vigde) Johanna Carlsdotter Sonnberg. When she married, her last name changed to Sandberg, as Johanna. She can be found on the 1880 US Census as “Johannah Sandberg” married to a Smed [Master (Black)smith]. He is on the census as Martin Anderson with his children, Ellen [Elin], Vilhelm [William], Carl August as Carl. Note: Elin is pronounced as Ellen This was from several Swedish sources [Sverige]. My Granmother was named Gretrude Anderson after FFF [Great Grandmother] Gertrud Hansdotter. Incidently, Sonnbergs were connected to the Parish as either klöckares or kantors.
9:05 pm on December 14th, 2009
Brooks — now you are talking — back to regular sports news! Yeah! Sorry for being so hard on you.
10:13 pm on December 14th, 2009
MATT, your mother just called and you can come out of the basement for dinner. If you believe the BS you wrote you are dumber than a rock. A classy gal like Elin wouldn’t make any such concessions. She was just too young and naive to realize what a POS TIGER was and he hide it very well with the help of all his POS friends and business partners.
10:20 am on December 15th, 2009
WHAT A DUMP !!!!! BAD INVESTMENT !!! NO GOLF COURSE NO STORES !!!! FROZEN OVER IN WINTER — SOUNDS LIKE A LIVING HELL AND NO ONE IS MORE DESERVING THAN TIGER
1:28 am on December 16th, 2009
Oh good…now that he is not playing golf maybe Tiger will become involved in home repair. They could do a tv series and call it “This ol’ Tiger hammers…” First show:” How to renovate an outhouse.” Elin supervises by Blackberry from Vaxholm.
11:20 am on December 16th, 2009
This guy is 53 years old? Sounds more like a 9 year old, probably not married either. Would not want to get the cooties or anything. By the sound of your comment you don’t get much and you are mostly just afraid of things in general. You would not “waist” your time with these women? Bullshit! First of all you could not even get your fat ass through the door to whatever clubs these women are in and secondly you sound like to big of a pussy to even talk to one.
P.S. Learn proper grammar you old douche
Bradford W Kelly
9:36 pm on December 13th, 2009
I really liked tiger not just for his golf game but because he was such a good role model for all the young people. It makes me ill to see him with all those scanky ho berries. I’m 53 years old and wouldn’t waist my time with any of them. I would be afraid of some type of critters crawling out of there. If I was Elin I would be afraid of contracting some type of fungus the mungis. He had such a beautiful family I just don’t get it.
3:50 pm on December 17th, 2009
No longer Tiger Woods……now it’s Cheetah Woods.
3:51 pm on December 17th, 2009
I question Elin’s financial judgment. I can’t believe that crappy house and property on an island could possibly be worth $.2.2-million.
5:47 pm on December 17th, 2009
I am a state certified Master Plumber and I am at Elin’s becken call ……. no problem…. free service anything she needs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11:45 pm on December 17th, 2009
That’s spending money you have and most likely never use. I think it would be a cold day in hell Tiger would let his children live there. Come on, go back to Florida and sun your buns in the Sunshine State.
12:01 pm on December 18th, 2009
Ben,
I feel sorry for you if you’re 53 years old and still don’t know how to spell words properly. “Waist” my time, really? You should spend more time focusing on improviing yourself before judging others, leave the man alone, it’s none of anyone’s business, who are we to judge.
3:18 pm on December 18th, 2009
If u don’t anybody 2 bother u, i guess that is one of the places to move. But NO PLUMBING!!! MY GOODNESS!!!
4:50 pm on December 18th, 2009
Because she didnt work to make the money she has no problem spending it on trash. This house was something to do. It will be atleast 6 mos before she can live in this piece of crap and she spend more than 75K dollars for it. No wonder she was a babysitter.
6:24 pm on December 18th, 2009
Gigi
I wish everyone who hasn’t got anything to do but criticize Tiger would read the Bible.Only God is the judge of our sins and while they are bashing Tiger half of them has skeletons in their closet.Elin should have picked her own man and not let her friends pick for her.Have you heard the old saying “Money is the root of all evil”? The news media has to report news and they have nothing else to report.I will give them something to report, bring our military employees home from Iraq and Afghanstan.PREACH THAT ALL DAY EVERY DAY.
6:35 pm on December 18th, 2009
I agree with Gigi leave Tiger and Elin to work out their differences.They would probably be able to do so if the news media would find some other headlines such as bring our troops home.Tiger needs to be in his children’s life just as his father was in his.I doubt if Elin’s house will ever be used by her no water half the the time,I think she bought it because she has no value on Tiger’s money.The world can live without all the insults about Tiger and those HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HOS.GIVE THE MAN A REST HE IS NOT THE FIRST AND WON’T BE THE LAST.
8:12 am on December 21st, 2009
It wouldn’t have been so bad for him to have had 1 affair,but 14+ is way over doing it,he needs help.Even the Senators,Congressmen,Etc. that got caught only had 1 woman they stepped out with.He had no business getting married to begin with,if he still needed to sow his wild oats.Good luck to her and the children,as for him, he’s rich enough that he will do just fine after all the hoopla dies down
10:44 am on December 28th, 2009
tiger is a good friend and said he going over there becoming a handyman and fixing up hinself.sould be back by us open
3:19 pm on December 29th, 2009
Damn, I really want a hydrocopter. But not to meet the former au pair Elin.
9:03 am on December 31st, 2009
The property doesn’t look to be worth 2.5 million dollars. Elin could have probably purchased the entire island for that amount of money.
But what she does with Tiger’s money is she and Tiger’s business. The public should pull their nose out of their business. There are major problems in society and we’re worried about whose sleeping with who. What a waste of time. Get a life all of you.
11:41 am on December 31st, 2009
I have one question and it really has nothing to do with Tiger or his affairs. The question is - when are people going to learn how to spell? I have never seen such poor spelling and language skills in my life as I have seen on these forums!
11:49 am on December 31st, 2009
WHO CARES WHAT’S GOING ON IN TIGER WOODS LIFE??? THE MEDIA IS THE ONE THAT PUT HIM ON THAT PEDASTAL AND THE MEDIA IS THE ONE THAT’S TEARING HIM DOWN. SOCIETY THINKS JUST B/C A PERSON CAN SWING A GOLF CLUB OR THROW A FOOTBALL OR SING OR ACT THAT THEY ARE SOME SUPER HERO’S ABOVE MISTAKES. EVERYONE WALKING THE FACE OF THIS EARTH IS HUMAN AND SUBJECT TO MAKE MISTAKES. IF WE FOCUSED THIS MUCH TIME & ATTENTION ON IMPORTANT MATTERS SUCH AS, CHILD MOLESTATION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, RAPE & CHILD ABUSE, ETC….THE WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE.
7:11 am on January 1st, 2010
IT’S SO SAD TO SEE THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE ESPICALLY WHEN IT COMES TO CALL GIRLS OR GUYS BEING PAID HIGH MONEY TO KEEP QUIET AND OOPS THE CAT’S OUT OF THE BAG. BUT EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKES, GIVE HIM AND ELIN SPACE LET THEM WORK THINGS OUT AND STAY THE HECK OUT OF THEIR BUSINESS WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE
“JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGE”
HAPPY NEW YEAR
12:26 pm on January 1st, 2010
I hope Tiger can move forward and come back to golf.
He made the game more interesting to watch.
The way I see it, everyone is doing God knows what behind closed doors. And if the door is ever opened and we are exposed. I wonder what our secrets would be. So please , let us leave Tiger alone. He is just a man, not a God, not a role model, not a leader among men, just a golfer. Let this be over and move on to something new. Happy New Year.
11:31 pm on January 6th, 2010
“As you sew, so shall you reap?”
2:23 am on January 22nd, 2010
Tiger going to Sweden?
You can run Tiger, but you can’t hide. Some online sports news sites, listed on Dozensports.com, say the world’s best golf player could be moving to Sweden to escape the media glare. But if this happens he won’t be able to escape the guilt of his actions. Anyway, isn’t Sweden a country filed with beautiful blondes? Bad choice for a sex addict.
6:41 am on March 31st, 2010
That’s an oddly simple looking house for a celebrity
2:33 pm on May 3rd, 2010
we really need to leave tiger alone. it is none of our business
5:49 am on July 5th, 2010
interesting choice for a new place to live.
6:39 am on September 5th, 2010
we really need to leave tiger alone. it is none of our business