By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

While most of the country was consumed with Irene last weekend, the winds of change were also blowing more than 1,000 miles to the south, where Tiger Woods' beautiful ex-wife Elin Nordegren showed just how far she's come in her love life with her new man, investor Jamie Dingman.

As we previously reported, the debonair Dingman stayed with the 30-year-old Swedish beauty at her Palm Beach digs Friday night, and the new lovers recharged their jets with a coffee run early Saturday. After the wealthy investor departed via his limousine, a beaming, content Elin took her kids Sam and Charlie to the nearby beach, where they built sandcastles.

A little more on Dingman: the 37-year-old son of a billionaire, a source told the NY Post he’s a “classic all-American guy ... handsome, a total gentleman and low-key.

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