Tiger Woods House
Jupiter Island Beach - this a feel for the area. Photo by drexelpike
People want to know about the Tiger Woods house. It is understandable that they want to know. The house people are talking about is the one he built on South Beach Road, Jupiter Island, Florida. He owns several, however. Of course he would very much like to keep it absolutely private for security and privacy reasons. It is claimed that Tiger Woods lives in the Orlando, Florida community of Isleworth (src: Snopes.com). This appears to be incorrect. The Orlando area is where the great Arnold Palmer lives. At the base of the page, I have embedded a map of the Orlando area and of the area where the Tiger Woods House is meant to be. Your info about Tiger is incorrect. He does live right here in Orlando in the Isleworth community. Its about 2 miles from my house. I see him quite often as my wife and his wife use the same hair dresser. He does have a place in Jupiter beach and will make that his primary home in a couple of years. Note: Please respect the privacy of Mr and Mrs Tiger Woods and children. People do want to know and he is in the public eye but he and his family deserves and has the right to privacy when at or near home. Please read on. Before I discuss further the Tiger Woods house, I need to justify why I am discussing all this on a site about cats. Well, the obvious answer, really, is his name. His name is unusual and very appropriate. His full name is Eldrick Tont "Tiger" Woods. "Tont" is a Thai name. Tiger Woods is 25% Chinese, 25% Thai, 25% African American, 12.5% Native American, and 12.5% Dutch. Maybe this amalgam is partly why his is so strong mentally and physically. In the cat fancy it is called hybrid vigor! Tiger's father was in the army and he gave a Vietnamese soldier friend of his the nickname "Tiger". In return this person, Vuong Dang Phong, gave the same name to Eldrick Woods. The nickname is now better described as an additional middle name or his christian or first name. Tiger is a Buddhist, by the way. OK, back to the Tiger Woods house. There are no pictures I am sure. There are tons of pictures of a very glamorous beach front home. The website Snopes.com start the page by saying: Claim: Photographs show the beachfront home of golfer Tiger Woods.Note the word claim. This is followed by tons of photographs of a home that is not as far as I am aware remotely connected to Tiger Woods! Here is one of the pictures:  I understand the photo above to be copyright free but I won't reproduce a pile of them as there is no point. The house looks more like it is situated in Hawaii or some such place. Also the pictures have undoubtedly been taken by a real estate agent to sell or rent the property and he would not be able to release them if it was the Tiger Woods house. However, the real home is a waterfront home (src: Telegraph UK).The search continues. It is, by the way, interesting to note that the Tiger Woods Foundation (his charitable foundation to help children) is located in Irvine, California. Tiger must spend some time there as it is important to him. Irvine is the opposite side of the USA to Orlando. Here is a map showing where Irvine is (for non-Americans): In fact, Tiger Woods also owns property in Orlando, California, Wyoming and Sweden, his wife's home country. His main residence is as mentioned above on Jupiter Island, on the Atlantic coast of Florida, about 200 miles south and slightly east of Orlando. This is a perfect place as it is exclusive with limited road access. It is a long thin island about 20 miles long and 500 yards to half a mile wide. It is about 500 yards wide where Tiger Woods has his home. He had the original estate demolished. It cost $38 million to $48 million (we are not sure!). The whole lot was knocked down, it seems, which included: a 13-year-old mansion of 7,600 sq. feet, 3 other large houses, 2 swimming pools, tennis, basketball and volleyball courts and a mini-golf course. In fact one of the guest homes on the estate was hit by lightning after he bought the estate and destroyed - no big deal. His architect planned for a 10,000 sq ft, two-storey house. It is, it seems, a modern house in design. Other features of the Tiger Woods house are:
 The picture is believed to be copyright free. I have marked it up. I have made an informed guess as to the entire estate based on the description of the properties demolished. The address is South Beach Road, Jupiter Island, Florida. This is a Google view of Jupiter Island (bottom right and what I believe is the Isleworth area of Orlando: That is it for the time being. Update 1-5-09: I have added the comment of an anonymous contributor (who I thank) in the quote above. As you will note he says that the Jupiter Drive house will be his house in the near future.  Sources unless stated:
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