Am I the only one who was gobsmacked, not by Elin Wood’s failure to appear in support of Tiger at the US Open, but at the fact that anyone in their right mind would expect her to be there?  Now the news breaks that while Tiger was making his much-anticipated comeback, Elin was apparently with her lawyers, and the couple are definitely divorcing.

Good for her. I’d hate to have seen Elin reappear in time, draped around Tiger in stage-managed,”supportive spouse” mode. Remember Victoria Beckham posing for the cameras “en famille” in that hastily booked family ski holiday after the Rebecca Loos revelations?.  Smile frozen into place for the cameras (the “happy family” invited Hello Magazine along for the trip), Victoria looked more like a woman possessed than  a happy, trusting spouse.

God only knows what she’s going through privately, but Elin has behaved with dignity since all hell broke loose on the home front, refusing to comment to the media and staying out of the spotlight.  She’s said to be renovating a lovely old house she’s bought in her native Sweden, far away from the madness of the US celebrity scene or any key role in her soon-to-be ex-husband’s so-called “recovery” from his “sex addiction”. Whether or not she can ever forgive Tiger is something we’ll never know (and nor should we), but she’s obviously decided there’s no future for them as a couple, and what woman could blame her?