22 December,2009 07:09 AM IST | | AFP
Tiger Woods is reportedly yachting to the Bahamas for the holidays to escape the firestorm over his sex scandal while his wife Elin is said to be off back to Sweden for Christmas with her family.
Woods, who turns 34 next week, launched his yacht from Palm Beach for the Bahamas at the weekend, with People magazine quoting an unidentified friend as saying that the golf star faced a deeply unhappy time ahead.
'Woods devastated'
"He's devastated at everything he has lost," the magazine quoted the source as saying. "He will go through some dark times. It's going to be a lonely Christmas for him."
Woods has admitted cheating on wife Elin and at least 14 women, one for every major golf crown he has won, have claimed to have had affairs with the world's first billionaire sportsman.
Sponsors have backed away from Woods, who hasu00a0 put his golf career on hold indefinitely to work on his personal woes.
People also reported that Elin Woods, a Swedish model whom Woods married in 2004, will take the couple's two children with her to Sweden.
Divorce can wait
Celebrity website TMZ reported Elin would not immediately move to divorce Woods but said she has been especially upset by the sheer number of her husband's affairs and two particularly painful relationships that were highlighted.
She was reportedly most upset about a three-year relationship Woods had with one woman and that he was with another woman while she herself was pregnant.
People also reported a source saying that Tiger's Thai-born mother, Kultida Woods "wants to know how he could do this to his family."
Meanwhile, MSNBC's Courtney Hazlett said sources close to Woods indicated he may appear on the January 9 edition of Saturday Night Live, to be hosted by his friend, retired basketball star Charles Barkley."
