Perhaps ironically, Seals mentions that, “At Stanford his teammates called him Urkel, after Steve Urkel, the nerd on the 1990s TV show Family Matters;” (3) who knew that he would grow into the tabloid star he is today in just 12 years.

Seal, Mark. "The Temptation of Tiger Woods." Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair, May 2010. Web. 25 Jan. 2011. http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/05/tiger-woods-article-full-201005

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That included Tiger Woods, who was first introduced to her at the 2001 British Open. For months he kept calling, but Elin had a boyfriend back in Sweden, so she shrugged Tiger off. He may have been golf’s global superstar, but where romance was concerned he came up short. At Stanford his teammates called him Urkel, after Steve Urkel, the nerd on the 1990s TV show Family Matters. And though he had dated a U.C.L.A. law student, Joanna Jagoda, when he finally got his shot with Elin, he handled it badly: he had a friend call and ask her for a date, which she thought was “pathetic,” and she promptly said no. He then reportedly began paging her half a dozen times a day.