Tiger Woods and wife Elin Nordegren are divorced

Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren were married six years

Tiger Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren have divorced, the couple said in a statement posted on the world number one golfer's website.

"We are sad that our marriage is over and we wish each other the very best for the future," the couple said. They said they planned to "share parenting" of their two children. News of the split comes nine months after a car crash outside Mr Woods' Florida home set off revelations that he had been cheating on Ms Nordegren.

BBC golf correspondent Iain Carter says that golf insiders had "guessed.. that divorce proceedings have been underway for quite some time".

"Woods has been a rather more distracted figure than the one we have been used to seeing on the golf course, and of course his results have reflected that," Carter said.

BBC