Tiger Woods was captured on camera sharing a warm embrace with his ex-wife Elin Nordegren, moments after he and son Charlie finished second at the PNC Championship in Florida.
Woods and Charlie, 15, lost in a play-off to Bernhard Langer and his son Jason on Sunday, with the golfer painfully missing out on a tournament win on his return to action after a sixth back operation this year.
As Langer drained the putt that clinched the victory, Nordegren waited just outside the ropes to congratulate her son and ex-husband on their weekend. And images quickly went viral of Woods, 48, hugging the Swedish model as he came off the track.
Woods and Nordegren divorced in 2010 after six years of marriage, months after bombshell details emerged about the golfer’s infidelity.
Nordegren first discovered that Woods was cheating in November 2009. Woods crashed into a fire hydrant and a tree outside the Florida mansion he shared with her, two days after a National Enquirer report alleged that Woods was having an affair with a woman named Rachel Uchitel.
In the aftermath of the crash — in which Woods was found sleeping on the street by police with no shoes and socks on, according to USA Today, while Nordegren tried to hit the car with a golf club — multiple women came forward to claim they were also had been involved with the golfer.
Tiger Woods hugged his ex-wife Elin Nordegren after the fight with their son Charlie, 15
Nordegren imagined Tiger Woods and their son Charlie competing in Flordia
Not only did it cost Woods his marriage, but he also lost numerous lucrative sponsorship deals and entered rehab for sex addiction during a break from golf.
‘[I was in] absolute shock and disbelief,” Nordgren told PEOPLE of her divorce from Woods. ‘I felt stupid when more things were revealed – how could I not know anything? The word betrayal is not strong enough.
‘It felt like my whole world was collapsing. It seemed that my world as I thought it was had never existed. I felt ashamed for being so deceived. I felt betrayed by many people around me.’
Now Woods and Nordegren are said to be friends. Charlie isn’t the only child they had together: their daughter Sam, 17, caddied for her father and brother at the weekend tournament.
Nordegren also has three children with former NFL player Jordan Cameron, whom she met after things ended with Woods.
In 2015, Woods went so far as to say that Nordegren is still one of the people he trusts the most.
‘She’s one of my best friends. “We can pick up the phone and we talk to each other all the time,” he said.
‘We both know that the most important things in our lives are our children. I wish I had known that then. She talks to me about her life, I talk to her about my life.
Woods was married to Swedish model Nordegren for six years before divorcing in 2010
‘We always try to help each other. And we work through it with the kids, the parenting program. She’s one of my best friends now, and it’s all because of my kids.”
Earlier this year, Woods — who turns 49 later in December — and 44-year-old Nordegren cheered on Charlie at a high school golf tournament in Florida.
They also came face to face in March, when an awkward photo surfaced of Woods standing off to the side while Nordegren and Charlie had a photo together.
Erin often attends the PNC Championship to support her son, who made his first-ever hole-in-one this weekend as his father watched.
“It was great, no one made a mistake today, it was the most fun I’ve ever had,” Charlie said on television after his round had ended.
‘And besides, I made an ace. I don’t think I can top that, it was amazing.’
It was believed Nordegren watched in the clubhouse as Charlie made the shot on the fourth hole.
His proud father added: ‘That was one of the highlights we’ve ever had. On the previous hole he made his first eagle and now he just made his first hole-in-one. It’s a magical two-hole stretch.”