"Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred."
- Anonymous
London's Daily Telegraph reporter Richard Alleyne has the scoop on Tiger Woods's marriage yesterday to Swedish model Elin Nordegren:
"Tiger Woods, 28, tied the knot yesteday to Elin Nordegren, a Swedish model, at the 19th hole of the Sandy Lane Golf Resort in Barbados in a ceremony reputedly costing more than £1 million."
What do you get for a million pounds sterling? Try this for starters:
"The golfer, expected to become the first sporting billionaire, hired the five-star complex for a week including its 110 rooms--which cost nearly £5,000 a night each--and three golf courses.
A £32 million, 150ft yacht, named Privacy, has been anchored off the beach exclusively for his 150 guests, said to include Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates and Michael Jordan.
More than 500 roses were delivered to the hotel and a team of hairdressers from the John Frieda salon in west London were flown in."
Mr. Alleyne failed to indicate whether this extravagance helps ensure the couple's long-term prospects. Somehow, I doubt that it does, but it shouldn't keep them from giving it a shot.
I would think that being married to a celebrity as wealthy and widely-traveled as Mr. Woods would be a challenge for any young woman, especially if children become a part of the equation. But others have succeeded. Phil Mickelson, one of Tiger's fellow competitors, and his wife Amy, seem to be a happy pair and they have kids--and lots of money.
So let's take our hats off to Tiger and his new bride for being brave enough to take the plunge. I wish them the very best as they embark on this new phase of their life. Who knows? Maybe now that he's taken a wife his game will turn around and he'll regain his number one world ranking.
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