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FORGIVEN...SHAMED TIGER BACK IN THE FAMILY HOME

Tiger Woods and Elin have been seen together again

Monday March 15,2010

By Michael Pickard

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DISGRACED golfer Tiger Woods has completed his first comeback – returning to his family home after treatment for sex addiction.

One month after his rambling apology for conducting a string of affairs, the golf star has apparently moved back to his £1.7million mansion in Florida with wife Elin Nordegren and their two young children.

Elin moved out shortly after her husband’s “infidelities” became public following a car crash outside their home on Thanksgiving Day in November.

She was said to have approved of his apology and it was reported that she was in a much happier mood since his return to their home near Orlando, believed to have taken place at the beginning of last week.

She is also said to have put divorce proceedings on hold.

A source close to the family said Tiger had been at the family home at Isleworth for the past eight nights and that Elin had been seen with a “rejuvenated” demeanour.

“As for Tiger, he was practicing like a man possessed before the weather got bad, but with the rain coming down for the past few days, he’s been stuck indoors,” the source said last night.

Tiger is now planning his return to competitive golf, with speculation that the world’s Number One player will appear at The Masters, in Augusta, next month.

His last appearance was at the Australian Masters in Melbourne just days before the crash.

Although he has refused to publicly set a date for his return, he recently began working with his swing coach, Hank Haney.

The 34-year-old star announced he would take an “indefinite break” from the sport in December last year after he was linked to a string of women, including two porn stars, a cocktail waitress and a nightclub hostess.

Following the revelations, he was treated for sex addiction at a clinic in Mississippi.

Last month, he made his tearful public apology when he said he was “deeply sorry” for his “irresponsible and selfish behaviour”.

Swedish-born Elin, 30, was not at the press conference, which was attended by his mother and some of his sponsors. It also emerged that paramedics who responded to the crash on November 27 would not let his wife into the ambulance due to fears of domestic violence.

Meanwhile three women linked to Woods have paraded in bikinis as part of a beauty pageant.

Jamie Jungers fought off competition from fellow cocktail waitress Jamie Grubbs and former escort Loredana Jolie to be named as the golfer’s “true mistress”.

She won £50,000 after answering a series of personal questions about Woods, and told radio host Howard Stern that Tiger called her “little coffee cup” and “Jamie Juices”.

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