Tiger Woods Wife Wins World Golf Championships CA Championship, NCAA Basketball Tournament

Surely with March Madness getting underway on Thursday, College Basketball would have headlined every other sporting event.  The World Golf Championships CA Championship also teed off Thursday.  But it wasn't College Basketball or Golf that won out among Internet searches, it was none other than Tiger Woods Wife.

"For years now, whenever a major golf event that features Tiger Woods takes place, inevitably there will be thousands upon thousands of Internet searches for his beautiful wife, Elin Nordegren," explains Christopher Costigan, Publisher of Gambling911.com. 

One of many pages on the site mentioning Ms. Nordegren, received over 10,000 unique visits in just a 12 hour period. 

"It's truly amazing.  We really don't know who is more popular, Tiger Woods or his wife."

Scratch that!  We do know who is more popular when it comes to Internet search.  Tiger Woods wife wins by a landslide.Elin

Nordegren Woods (born January 1, 1980, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a former model. 

Elin and her twin sister Josefin had been working as nannies for Swedish golfer Jesper Parnevik when he introduced her to Woods during the 2001 British Open. In November 2003, Tiger and Elin attended the Presidents Cup tournament in South Africa and became officially engaged when Tiger proposed at the luxury Shamwari Game Reserve. On October 5, 2004, Tiger and Elin were married by the 19th hole of an exclusive golf resort in Barbados. The ceremony reportedly cost over $1.5 million. Privacy was achieved by buying out the island's sole helicopter charter company and by booking the entire hotel - 200 rooms ranging in price from $700 to $8,000 per night.

On June 18, 2007, the Woods announced the birth of their daughter, Sam Alexis Woods, early that morning, just a day after Woods finished second in the 2007 U.S. Open.

Controversy erupted last year when an Irish magazine published nude photos claiming to be of Mrs. Woods, when in fact they were photos of an Elin lookalike, Kim Hiott.

The Dubliner issued an apology for the story, saying that they had printed the photos as a "satire of tabloid publishing."

Elin won the lawsuit and as part of the settlement accepted by a Dublin court, The Dubliner must publish its lengthy apology in a variety of venues, including in its next issue. If the magazine fails to meet the conditions the award will be increased to $366,500 and the publishers will have to pay Nordegren Woods’ legal costs.

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Tyrone Black, Gambling911.com

Originally published March 20, 2008 11:30 pm EST