WATER HAZARD:Tiger Woods is looking to sell the yacht he bought for Elin Nordegren (above left) as a wedding present, but experts say he’ll be lucky to get the $20 million he paid for it in 2004. (Getty Images)
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Lustful linksman Tiger Woods’ money woes are sinking his ship.
Between his $100 mil lion divorce settlement, the loss of an estimated $100 million a year in endorsements and the millions he paid to keep his former mistresses quiet, the formerly top-ranked golfer is no longer banking the kind of green he once was.
And don’t even ask about the PGA prize money he’s lost as his golf game wilts.
Now, the troubled duffer is looking to take a mulligan on his mega bucks yacht.
Woods hopes to land $25 million for the luxurious 155-foot vessel, Privacy, but experts say he’ll be lucky to get the $20 million he originally paid in 2004.
The yacht was a wedding gift to Elin Nordegren, which was dumped back on Tiger after their divorce.
Woods is shopping for a broker to put it up for sale this week, but at least one major yacht builder said the golfer is asking too much, according to the Palm Beach Post.
“The market on big yachts has gone down,” said North Palm Beach yacht builder John Staluppi, whose Millennium Super Yachts is just down the road from the Old Port Cove Marina, where Woods docks his vessel.
“Banks aren’t financing and the economy is off. It’s a buyer’s market,” said Staluppi.
“Unless he sells to someone who wants to brag that he’s got Tiger’s yacht, he’ll get about $20 million.”
The golfer, who counts deep-water spear fishing among his hobbies, recently bought a more sporty 62-foot diving boat, Solitude, for $3.1 mllion.
Tiger was last spotted aboard Privacy two weeks ago in Miami with his latest gal pal, 22-year-old Florida grad student Alyse Lahti.