Claim: Nude photographs show golfer Tiger Woods' fiancée.
<NOINDEX>
Status: False. </NOINDEX>
WARNING: The external sites linked from this article identified with blue links (rather than pink links) include depictions of nudity.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
<TABLE width=600 align=center bgColor=#000000 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#d5efff>
I thought golfers of all ages could appreciate this one! If you were wondering why Tiger might not be as focused on golf this year, you need to look no further than these pictures of his girlfriend!
[Pictures here]
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Origins: In <TABLE cellSpacing=15 align=right><TBODY><TR><TD><CENTER><SCRIPT language=JavaScript>rnum=Math.round(Math.random() * 100000); ts=String.fromCharCode(60);if (window.self != window.top) { nf='' } else { nf='NF/' };document.write(ts+'script src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/sk1874b.cgi/v=2.1S/sz=120x600A|160x600A/'+rnum+'/'+nf+'RETURN-CODE/JS/">'+ts+'/script>');</SCRIPT><SCRIPT src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/sk1874b.cgi/v=2.1S/sz=120x600A|160x600A/95059/NF/RETURN-CODE/JS/"></SCRIPT><IFRAME marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src="http://view.atdmt.com/MON/iview/brstmmec0160000086mon/direct/091421?click=http://www.burstnet.com/ads/sk1874b-map.cgi/BCPG54050.80896.80872/SZ=120X600A|160X600A/V=2.1S//REDIRURL=" frameBorder=0 width=120 scrolling=no height=600 allowTransparency topmargin="0" leftmargin="0"><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">document.write('
');</script></IFRAME>
<NOSCRIPT>
</NOSCRIPT></CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>December 2003, world-famous golf pro
<NOBR>Tiger Woods</NOBR> and Swedish model
<NOBR>Elin Nordegren</NOBR> announced their engagement. After months of planning, the 27-year-old Woods had nervously proposed to his 23-year-old girlfriend in South Africa a month earlier:
"I was super nervous the moment I was going to put the question to (her)," Woods said. "I had made up my mind many months before, but I wanted to wait for a perfect and romantic setting.
"It was a thriller. To putt for victory in a major (golf tournament) is nothing in comparison," he said. "Even if you say 'Will you marry me?' with the right feeling, the answer could be 'No.'"
Woods, 27, proposed to Swedish girlfriend, Elin Nordegren, last month when the couple traveled to the Shamwari Game Reserve in South Africa for a four-day vacation.
Woods had planned the proposal for months, he said, planning for the right moment in between his hectic golf schedule.
Woods need not have worried. Nordegren, 23, said "yes."
The pair, who met when Nordegren was working as a nanny for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik, "haven't set a wedding date or decided where (they'll) get married," Woods said.
Superstar athletes and models both being subjects of much public interest, a pair of them dating was bound to attract a good deal of attention. Perhaps operating on the (mistaken) assumption that all models pose for nude photographs at some point in their careers, someone began circulating an e-mail message with a series of pictures featuring a young woman posing for a nude photo shoot; the accompanying text identified the woman featured in the photographs as Elin Nordegren, Tiger Woods' girlfriend.
The photographs are real, but they're not pictures of Elin <NOBR>Nordegren — they're</NOBR> actually photographs of
<NOBR>Kim Hiott</NOBR>, a model who has posed for some of
Playboy's Special Editions features. (The distinctive tattoo on Kim's backside is one clue that the pictures included in the <NOBR>e-mail</NOBR> message are photographs of her, not Elin Nordegren.)
As
Playboy noted in a cyber club feature on <NOBR>Ms. Hiott</NOBR>:
No, gorgeous blonde Kim Hiott is not Tiger Woods' girlfriend. But she's way above par, isn't she!
It's a case of mistaken identity. An email circulating the web claims to have nude photos of Tiger Woods' girlfriend, model Elin Nordegren. But the sexy blonde in those photos is Special Editions model Kim Hiott. We think you'll enjoy a peek at what Tiger's missing!
The two young women bear a bit of a resemblance to each other, but that's about all they have in common:
<TABLE width=600 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD align=middle>
</TD><TD align=middle>
</TD></TR><TR><TD align=middle>
Kim Hiott</TD><TD align=middle>
Elin Nordegren</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Last updated: 30 December 2003