Tiger Woods and wife Elin photographed together

Could the nightmare be over for Tiger Woods? Five months after revelations that he had conducted a string of affairs brought his life crashing down around him, it seems both Woods's golfing career and his marriage could be back on course.

Woods and his wife Elin Nordegren have been photographed together for the first time since news of the affairs broke, adding to speculation that the Swedish-born former model is considering forgiving her husband. Woods, the world's top golfer, is also set to return to competitive sport at the Masters tournament on April 8, as reported on The First Post yesterday.

On Tuesday the New York Post published a photo of the couple walking around the garden of their Florida home (above).

According to a witness, the couple did not appear to talk much, but the sighting has fuelled rumours that Tiger and Elin may reunite despite at least 17 women claiming they had slept with the golfer. The photo also comes three days after the entertainment gossip website TMZ reported that Nordegren and the couple's two young children had spent a week with Woods at the family's home. She had moved out while the golfer received sex addiction therapy.

It is almost four months since Woods and Nordegren were last seen together, after the golfer wrapped his car around a fire hydrant outside his home following an alleged fight with his wife. The very public dispute set off a chain of revelations, in which woman after woman including two porn stars, a local restaurant waitress and a nightclub hostess, came forward to claim they had slept with him.

Announcing his return to golf yesterday, Woods admitted that the threat of divorce was far from gone, despite receiving treatment for sex addiction. "I have undergone almost two months of inpatient therapy and I am continuing my treatment," he said. "Although I'm returning to competition, I still have a lot of work to do in my personal life." ·