
The Tiger Woods Empire continues to grow. Woods is in the process of building his primary mansion near Jupiter, Florida. When complete, it'll be almost 10,000 square feet, and sit smack-dab in the middle of a 12-acre tropical forest that stretches from the beach to the Intracoastal Waterway. All for just $44.5 million.
And then there's Woods' vacation bungalow in the Middle East. He's designing the Al Ruwaya golf course in Dubai, and as long as he's there he's also building another home. And it'll be bigger than his new pad in Florida: 16,500 square feet. It'll run for between $12 and $23 million.
In the meantime, Tiger will kick it on his newly-purchased Hamptons estate.
Tiger has a brand-new lair - a $65 million estate in the Hamptons where he can send his chip shots flying into the ocean.Because, really, who can vacation without a 7,500-square-foot guesthouse?
Located on exclusive Gin Lane, Tiger Woods' estate is on nearly six gated acres with a 13,200-square-foot Colonial Revival main residence, a 7,500-square-foot guesthouse and a four-car garage with staff quarters.
Woods will have spent roughly $130 million on his three residences (I'm not even including his yacht), and, yes, that seems like an absurd amount of money. But Tiger just signed a $100 million deal with Gatorade last fall, and he'll surpass $1 billion in earnings by 2010. I think he can swing it.
(You can see photos of the Hamptons digs here.)
UPDATE: Uh, apparently -- and this is shocking, I know -- somebody at the New York Post got their facts wrong. According to Tiger's agent, Mark Steinberg, Woods didn't buy a house in the Hamptons, $65 million or otherwise. "Absolutely false ... I have no idea where this came from," says Steinberg. "Tiger has not purchased a place in the Hamptons, and he isn't looking for a place on Long Island."
