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Woods marries Swedish model Elin

SANDY LANE BEACH (BARBADOS), OCT. 6 . Golfer Tiger Woods married Swedish model Elin Nordegren at an exclusive resort in Barbados, according to witnesses.

Woods rented out the entire hotel, which has about 200 rooms ranging in price from $700 to $8,000 a night, according to a hotel source.

Celebrities including Oprah Winfrey and former NBA stars Michael Jordan and Charles Barkley were among guests seen by a reporter perched on a hill overlooking the club house of the Sandy Lane resort golf course.

The Barbados Daily Nation quoted unidentified sources said the wedding cost $2.4 million.

``Privacy'' was the name of the yacht where the bride, a 24-year-old model who met Woods, 28, while she was being nanny to the children of a fellow golfer, had remained offshore before a celebration under white-netted pagoda and red roses.

But an AP photographer caught Woods on film early Tuesday, before the wedding, carrying scuba equipment from the yacht to a small attached dive boat.

It had minor engine trouble before it took off with a smiling Woods stretching one arm into the sea.

Shirtless and grinning, Woods then took a turn at the wheel, according to exclusive photographs from The Associated Press.

At the ceremony, Elin wore an off-white sleeveless gown. Woods wore a beige suit.

The couple had refused to respond to reports of the wedding, and there still was no official confirmation of its happening by Tuesday night — hours after the event. — AP

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