Tiger Woods has reportedly not moved into the downtown Manhattan apartment on Hudson Street.
According to the Daily News, real-estate sources say it's either wishful thinking or a stunt pulled by a landlord to promote his building.
"No way Tiger would live there," the New York Post quoted one broker as saying.
"It's an '80s conversion, run-down, with leaky ceilings," the broker added.
If it really was Woods who was spotted moving boxes in from a BMW, brokers say he might have been helping a girlfriend.
"It would have to be a mistress he doesn't care about. If he does live there, it means his wife took every penny he has and he's at the end of his rope," said another broker.
Non-real-estate sources are equally skeptical and point out that Woods has always gone out of his way to avoid the city and stayed on his yacht, The Privacy, when the US Open was played at Bethpage.
"He hates it in New York," said one observer.
"Why would he come here when he needs his privacy more than ever?" the observer added.