Source: Architectural Digest —
Tiger Woods’s talent on the golf course has been unstoppable ever since he first broke onto the scene in the late 1990s. Along with his professional success came an appetite for luxury real estate. The pro athlete has come a long way since growing up in the Orange County suburb Cypress, California; he has now owned properties in California, Florida, the Bahamas, and Canada. At one point, it was even rumored that Woods owned a custom-built home on a 62-acre private island in Sweden, but that story has since been debunked. This rumor likely started because the island was reportedly purchased by a Swedish businessman in 2006 for the explicit purpose of being developed into a retreat for Woods and his then wife Elin Nordegren. (The couple split in 2010 after Woods was found to have numerous extramarital affairs, and the deal was never finalized.)
Here, we’ve rounded up some of the places that the golfer has called home over the years.
1996
Woods’s first big purchase was also the beginning of his expansive real estate portfolio in Florida. He paid an undisclosed amount for the 8,000-square-foot Spanish-style home in the exclusive Isleworth community in Windermere, Florida, just as his stardom was on the rise. A big draw for the athlete was the privacy the place offered. “Once we get inside the gates of Isleworth, you can take a deep sigh of relief,” Woods told the Orlando Sentinel in 2006. “… There’s a no-autograph policy, no pictures, no nothing. We all just mingle.”
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