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Elin plays divorce course

Tiger Woods’ furious wife has tapped a top divorce lawyer and is planning to take the golf great for as much as half his billion-dollar fortune for repeatedly cheating on her with a bevy of birdies throughout their five-year marriage, it was reported yesterday.

“She plans to leave Tiger,” a source close to Elin Nordegren told People magazine. “She’s made up her mind. There’s nothing to think about — he’s never going to change.”

The stunning Swedish beauty is believed to have contacted veteran Los Angeles celebrity attorney Sorrell Trope — who has represented Nicole Kidman, Britney Spears and Cary Grant — to renegotiate the terms of a prenuptial agreement and end the marriage, according the several other reports.

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Nordegren, 29, is eyeing filing for divorce in California where the couple has a home because the Golden State’s no-fault divorce laws would make it easier for her to take a larger piece of his assets, it was reported.

But experts say it may not be so easy for her to take advantage of California law. She or Tiger would have to prove either one had spent the previous six months in the state upon filing.

“They’ve been living in Florida. The fact that they might own a house in California doesn’t matter if they’re not physically in California,” said John Hodson, chairman of the California Bar’s family-law section.

Trope did not return calls for comment.

The move comes a day after The Post reported Nordegren was about to move out of the couple’s Florida home with their two kids and was seen directing a moving crew to cart out items.

And days earlier, Nordegren had been spotted pumping gas while not wearing her wedding band and engagement ring in a clear sign a breakup was imminent.

“She knew what she was doing when she stepped out and pumped gas without her wedding rings,” a source close to her told MSNBC.

“She and Tiger are living separately now, but she’ll be making this split very open and official right after Christmas.”

“She’s a strong woman, this is beyond embarrassing, and she has a daughter and son she has to think about, who will know about this one day,” the source said. “Forgiveness isn’t exactly around the corner.”

Meanwhile, Woods’ high school sweetheart, Dina Parr, told E! News that it came as no surprise to her that Woods would have a wandering eye — he was just following in the footsteps of his late father, Earl..

“He would just call crying and say, ‘My dad is with another woman,’ and that was all he could say,” Parr said of Tiger when he was a teenage golf phenom. “He was so upset, so I just tried to be there for him and listen to him.

“He loved his father,” Parr said. “And I know that was the one thing about his dad that he could never get over. So yeah, it’s interesting that it’s turned out that he’s doing the same thing.”

Woods has not been seen since the revelation of his numerous affairs emerged following a bizarre Thanksgiving-weekend car wreck at his home outside Orlando.

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Despite the implosion of his marriage, he apparently has been hedging his bets, keeping in touch with at least one of his paramours, Rachel Uchitel. Woods’ reported relationship with Uchitel was what set the whole story going — prompting Nordegren to allegedly attack his SUV with a golf club and more than a dozen other women to come forward. Woods reportedly paid Uchitel millions to keep quiet about the affair.

“Tiger was texting her, trying to find time to get together again. He wasn’t even fazed!” one of Uchitel’s pals told US Weekly. “Rachel said he told her he was going to leave his wife for her, that he needed to be with her.”

Also yesterday, it was reported that Jamie Jungers, one of the many beauties to come forward to say they’d been with Tiger, was a stripper at an upscale Las Vegas club, her old boss told Radar Online.

“She got greedy and she got sloppy and she went out there and talked,” said Badda Bing club boss Rick Belcastro. “I could lose good customers with people like that. I’m just glad she left.”

Tiger’s cougar mistress, Theresa Rogers, 48, was trying to get pregnant by Woods, Radar Online reported last night. When she did, sometime between late 2003 and early 2004, she told a friend that she believed Woods was the father, though she was having an affair at the same time with a Serbian basketball player. There was never a DNA test.

Porn princess Joslyn James, 32, almost got a private palace out of her illicit love affair with Woods, her sister says.

“She told me once that Tiger Woods was going to buy her a house in Las Vegas,” said James’ sister, Samantha Siwik.

“She had seen him many times,” Siwik told Radar Online. “I believe that my sister took advantage of him because I know that she is that kind of person. She only thinks of herself.”

Star magazine reported that Woods’ wandering eye also extended to the A-list — coming on to Jessica Simpson when she was still dating Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo.

Woods and Simpson carried on a flirtatious weekend, Star cited a pal of Simpson as saying, during the AT&T National Pro-Am golf tournament last July — where Simpson was singing the national anthem and Romo was Tiger’s partner. The source said Simpson never followed through, because “she would never date a married man.” Days later, Romo and Simpson split up.