Tiger Woods, who is making a comeback after winning the WGC Cadillac Championship in Doral, sold his nearby Florida home to fellow golfer Bubba Watson, reported Golf.com.
View photos of the home here.
"I looked at probably 50 houses before I looked at Tiger's," said Watson in an interview with Golf.com. "A lot of the houses there are old, and we ended up changing everything. We probably saved maybe five percent of it. We built it all around Caleb. There are like three playrooms."
ESPN reported Wood's old house was where the 2009 Thanksgiving car accident, dispute with ex-wife and sex scandal exploded.
Located in Windmere, the upscale Isleworth estate seemed like the perfect family home for the Woods family. That's probably why Watson decided to keep the fact it was a former-Woods estate quiet when he starts moving in "Thursday or Friday."
Watson closed on the lakefront property last summer for an unknown price, but in 2012 it was assessed at $2.2 million. According to property records retrieved by ESPN, Woods bought the estate in 2000 for $2.475 million.
The documents also indicated Watson was renovating the home to make it larger. According to The Daily Mail, the home is 6,800-square feet, includes 8 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms and a swimming pool.
Watson, the 2012 Masters Champion, and Woods, 37, played at Doral on Sunday. Watson came in ninth place, while Woods played the best he's yet, finishing with a a remarkable score and Cadillac Championship. This was his 76th win in a PGA event and it's his first time in five years that he won two games before the Masters reported The Washington Post.
Watson decided to buy the home primarily it was in a gated community and was concerned for the safely of his wife, Angie, and son, Caleb, reported The Daily Mail.
"We've seen things in the news - our world is crazy," Watson told the Mail, "and it's nice to have that piece of mind when we take walks or go outside."
