Fellow Golfers Knew of Tigers Affairs

Tiger Woods' fellow golfers knew he was catting around - but kept their mouths shut.

Golf pro Helen Alfredsson became the first of Woods' peers to breach the green wall of silence Wednesday when she revealed it was common knowledge on the circuit that he was cheating on wife Elin Nordegren.

"I heard it last summer during the British open," Alfredsson told Sweden's TV4 station.

That Woods managed to keep his womanizing under wraps for so long clearly galled Alfredsson, who is Swedish, like Nordegren.

"In the quietest water swims the ugliest fish," she said.

Alfredsson, 44, called Woods "cold" and said there is "something odd about him."

"If he just paid for the escorts, I \[would\] understand it a bit more," she said. "Then no one needed to know. But now he did everything and a girlfriend and everything."

Alfredsson, who is married to former National Hockey League player Kent Nilsson, said she wondered why Woods bothered to get hitched.

"When he says to the girl that he cannot see her because he has family matters, when Elin will give birth, is he not a bit cold?" she asked.

Woods' secret sex life started to emerge Thanksgiving night after he totalled his SUV outside his Florida mansion under mysterious circumstances.

Us Weekly magazine, citing a source who spoke with other pro golfers, reported that Nordegren was told by a friend her husband was having an affair.

She then roused Woods from an Ambien-enhanced sleep by whacking him with a golf club.

"At that point, he ran out of the home barefoot and tried to drive away," the source told Us.
Woods, 33, later apologized for his "transgressions" and took an indefinite leave from the links as his nice-guy public image was destroyed by reports he strayed on his spouse with more than a dozen women.

Alfredsson said she doubts Woods will changed his stripes and suddenly become a devoted family man to his wife and two kids. She also said he could learn something from Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez, whose marriage fell apart amid reports of dalliances with strippers.

"[Rodriguez] said he somehow felt relieved when it came out because he knew he was a bad boy and he was placed on a pedestal to be so good and perfect," she told the station.

"I do not know if Tiger would go so far to say that he can be himself and do what he wants. If dares to do it and keeps it quiet, he can probably run and play."

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Woods was high roller at Vegas blackjack table

By JEANE MacINTOSH
Last Updated: 10:16 AM, December 17, 2009
Posted: 3:28 AM, December 17, 2009
When he wasn't forking over cash to silence his harem of beautiful bimbos, Tiger Woods tossed tens of thousands of dollars on the blackjack table at a Sin City casino, according to one of his mistresses.

Woods and his high-profile athlete pals, including former NBA star Charles Barkley, spent hours gambling at Mansion at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, purported paramour Jamie Jungers said yesterday.

"I gambled with him and Charles Barkley one night for hours," said Jungers, who has claimed to have had an 18-month affair with Woods. "[Tiger] played $25,000 a hand or more, and Charles played roulette behind us," Jungers told Radar Online.

Jungers said Woods tried to keep his affair discreet around his buddies. "He would occasionally put his hand on my leg, but it was underneath the table," she said. "There was nobody around except the blackjack dealer, the roulette dealer and a cocktail waitress."

Meanwhile, the Manhattan woman who introduced Woods to mistress Theresa Rogers was identified yesterday by Deadspin.com as 39-year-old single mom Tina Trahan. Trahan's role was to pack Tiger's private plane with beautiful women who'd accompany his pals to events and outings.

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UK court issues injunction in Woods case

LONDON – A British judge barred journalists in the country from publishing some material about Tiger Woods.

An injunction issued on Thursday even blocks media, including The Associated Press, from revealing the details of the order itself. As a result, media who obey the order cannot tell the public what they have been barred from revealing.

News organizations based outside of the UK ignored the order, however. The celebrity Web site TMZ published a copy of the injunction.

The order was imposed on Thursday by High Court Justice David Eady after it was sought by Schillings, the firm representing Woods in Britain.

London-based media lawyer Nigel Tait said such an injunction would have been unlikely in the United States, where reporting on the private lives of public figures is given less protection.

Britain has no formal privacy law but it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights, which guarantees the right to respect for privacy and family life. Celebrities have increasingly used this clause to fight media exposes.

They also have sought redress in British laws governing libel, which have traditionally been seen as friendlier to claimants than those in the United States.

Many foreigners have sued the media over articles they would likely have lost in their own countries. Libel laws in the United States, for example, require someone to prove that an article was both false and published maliciously. British law places the burden of proof on the publisher.

Woods has been dogged by questions about his personal life in the fortnight since a car accident outside his home in the middle of the night led to the release of sordid allegations about multiple affairs.

The world’s No. 1 golfer issued a public apology after disclosing his “personal failings” and acknowledged he had “not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.”

Though he has appealed for privacy, allegations of illicit liaisons by Woods have been regularly appearing in global media.

This has been especially true in Britain, where the tabloid press seized upon the story, offering a daily account of the number of women who have claimed affairs with Woods, often along with the purported details.

“The lawyers are trying to put a lid on these allegations, to contain them before they get to a level that’s perhaps just salacious,” media lawyer Ambi Sitham said. “Levels of privacy still exist.”