SAG HARBOR, N.Y. — Tiger Woods, everlastingly a magnet for the public’s attention, has competition this week.
From his yacht.
During the run-up to the U.S. Spread out that starts Thursday, Woods’ 155-foot yacht high regarded “Privacy” has gotten little of it since docking here last week at Sag Harbor Yacht Organization. A stream of onlookers that continued to arrive Tuesday included two older joins from Florida, a father and son from New York and a yacht broker from London.
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The boat is docked at a private yacht club but is easy to spot from the unconcealed docks at Marine Park.
“I’ve never seen so many pictures charmed of a boat,” said Janice D’Angelo, standing in her 61-foot speedboat, Jaywalker, docked about 300 feet from Woods’ bark. “How ironic, the name is Privacy.”
The yacht club is about a 15-mile ambition from Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, where Woods determination be trying to win his first major championship in a decade. D’Angelo, meanwhile, is awaiting the turn in of normalcy.
She said she lives with her husband and two daughters on their skiff, which offers a good view of Woods’ yacht and has been a renowned spot for people taking photos.
Said D’Angelo: “I had a woman ask me if she could favour on the front of my boat to take a picture of Tiger’s yacht.”
Her answer: Definitely not.
Even from the best vantage points, some photographers strength miss an interesting detail in their own pictures. The flag on the back of Woods’ steamer is Cayman Islands national flag.
Cayman Islands, which bids tax savings for boaters, is a popular spot for registry, according to boatinternational.com.
Most of the spectacular simulacra require a trip inside the boat, and the Golf Channel recently disclosed rare footage and images from Privacy. The highlights: Five staterooms that house 10 guests; four rooms for the crew of nine required to run the despatch; along with an eight-person hot tub, kayaks and scooters.
The reported price tag: $20 million, not bank on the $2 million a year in operating costs.
Asked Tuesday during a gossip conference if there were any advantages to staying on the yacht during the Introduce, Woods replied, “Yeah, staying on the dinghy helps.”
It won’t be cheap. Unless Woods handled a discount, he is paying $1,085 a day to dock his 155-foot yacht at the Sag Harbor Yacht Association during the week of the U.S. Open.
Docking fees are determined by the size of the sailing-yacht, and the Sag Harbor Yacht Club charges a daily fee of $7 per foot, according to a strife who answered the phone at the yacht club Tuesday, identified herself as Kim and flagged to provide further information.
Bjorn Andersen, who said he is a yacht intermediary from London who flew here to watch the U.S. Open, surveyed the yacht Tuesday.
“My assessment is it’s a fair yacht,” he said. “Pleasant and manageable, and far from ostentatious.”
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Definitely, Jake Keller, assistant harbormaster at Sag Harbor, said 150-foot yachts are commonplace in the unshrouded docks and private yacht clubs and marinas. But only one of the yachts presents a golfer who has won 14 major championships.
“People have been expecting, ‘Is it true? He’s around here?’ ” Keller said. “But I don’t think anyone’s look ated him yet.”
There was no sign of Woods Tuesday while two men worked on his boat. But D’Angelo intended she has seen Woods walking on the docks to and from Privacy.
And one day, D’Angelo responded, a small group of men scored the ultimate photo opp — Tiger and the yacht. She whispered the men shouted “Tiger, Tiger” as he walked toward the boat and eventually were rewarded with a swing from, well, Mr. Privacy.