How She Caught the Eye of Tiger

By Rebecca Winters

Did she enchant him with her caddying skills? Was she the first gal who got his Fuzzy Zoeller jokes? One can only speculate as to what really attracted TIGER WOODS, 27, to Swedish former swimsuit model ELIN NORDEGREN, 23. Woods proposed to Nordegren at a game reserve in South Africa last week, where he played in the Presidents Cup. Sport's most eligible bachelor met his fiance two years ago while she was an au pair for a fellow golfer. Around that time, Woods' father predicted his son wouldn't marry before age 30, saying, "A wife can sometimes be a deterrent to a good game of golf." Upon hearing this, presumably, Woods' rivals all raced to fix him up with the hottest nanny they could find.