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Tiger Woods: Secrets From the Locker Room

A PGA insider spills inside details about the scandalous golf star.

-Kelly Will

Tiger Woods

Now that Tiger Woods has taken a break from golf, it shouldn’t be too surprising to learn that some of his secrets have found their way straight out of the locker room on the PGA tour. Our PGA source tells us that many of the guys on the tour had an idea of Tiger’s cheating behavior but didn’t realize just how many women were involved in his extramarital affairs. Currently, the number stands at 14 women and counting who have come forward to admit to being with Tiger over the past five years since he wed Swedish beauty Elin Nordegren.

“Tiger is not a favorite in the locker room,” the insider says. “He is not known for being particularly nice to a lot of the guys on the tour and they were not surprised when the news broke. The men gossip and it was known that Tiger was not always faithful.”

Tiger Woods

One of the reasons Tiger is not popular on the PGA tour is because he is just as cold off the course as he on it. “Tiger is a standoffish guy and that doesn’t sit well with a lot of the golfers,” the insider tells BettyConfidential. “The guys who still respect him have a very good reason for standing by him — they have made a lot of money because of Tiger Woods and the positive attention he brought to the game of golf before this scandal broke. Feelings are torn, but everyone is worried about Elin and the kids and most do hope that they can find a way to work through his problems.”

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While Elin has flown to Sweden for Christmas (without Tiger) and is reportedly preparing to serve him with divorce papers, our source recommends that Tiger take plenty of time off, get help and focus on his family if he hopes to have any future success and save his endorsement deals. “He needs to spend all his energy on taking care of himself and his family. If he can rehab himself and find a way to make his family situation right, then he can come back and play great golf. That’s the best chance he has at regaining lost endorsements and any public support. But it could take years.”

Magazine and newspaper reporter Kelly Will has written celebrity columns for the New York Times, the New York Daily News and the New York Post. Follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/misswill.

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#1. stellabella on 12/17/2009 - 8:19 am (EST)

I know if I were Tiger wife I would not look back and pray that my health haven't been jeopardize..I have watched Tiger play golf,and I would never though he would do his wife& children wrong...

#2. hope_xo on 12/17/2009 - 10:29 am (EST)

I'm still shocked & apalled by this entire thing

#3. kitty on 12/17/2009 - 10:34 am (EST)

Really. I don't see how these "problems" can be "worked out." it's not like it was one mis-step. He had absolutely no respect for their marriage, for Elin, or for his children.

#4. khc1114 on 12/17/2009 - 10:59 am (EST)

I agree, kitty...maybe after 1, or even 3...but after 14?!?! I couldn't imagine going back.

#5. Athirson on 12/17/2009 - 6:05 pm (EST)

I'm shocked and disappointed in Tiger, but from the opposite angle. Considering that he is a billionaire, 14 booty calls over 5 years isn't very many. I consider him a piker more than a cheater; if you're gonna cheat, go all out.

#6. mollyhb on 12/17/2009 - 10:04 pm (EST)

Stay married, let him screw around look at Jackie Kennedy------she put up with it. No way would I give up that life!!!!

#7. EBONYBROWN46 on 12/17/2009 - 11:28 pm (EST)

Yeah right! And what does she get out of it? Does she get to screw around? Hell no!!! You know there's a double standard when it comes to that, and why should she do that, when she could leave him, and be rich as hell, and marry another man with a fabulous life style, who respects her and her children's welfare and health. I say leave now while she's still young and beautiful... She's going to end up having to do it eventually, why waste anymore of her life on him!!!!!

#8. bryony1 on 12/18/2009 - 1:14 am (EST)

Tiger Woods is a billionaire who thinks he's too good to tip service people, a billionaire who thinks he can cheat on his wife and doesn't care who finds out, a billionaire who's unpopular with fellow golfers for being a cold s.o.b. to them instead of a genial sportsman, a billionaire who thinks he can make thinks OK with his wife when she just bought a big house on an island off Sweden that's only accessible by boat ... does this idiot really think his money is going to buy back good will from service people he stiffs, from a humiliated wife, from antagonized other golfers, from a wife who just got as far away from him as she could .... and will probably hire security to keep any boat he sends to her island from landing? Money doesn't buy everything, a lesson this "ashamed-I'm-African-American" jerk has yet to realize. But eventually he'll figure it out, when he's got nobody but gold-diggers left as "friends".... The public doesn't want him any more, his wife doesn't want him, his fellow golfers don't want him ... when his children are old enough to understand, they won't want him. I hope those whores were worth it. I hope he's kicked out of pro golfing for good.

#9. Deborah E Rose on 12/18/2009 - 4:59 am (EST)

I hate to say it, but...with all his money this to will all blow over and all this will be forgot about when the next big story from one of the rich and famous happens. For now I think if I were Elin, I would continue to live with the JERK and make his life pure hell! Hey, why not? look what he is putting her and the kids through.

#10. Daisey on 12/19/2009 - 9:26 am (EST)

We have no idea what is really going on between Tiger and Elin,,after all gossip is gossip, from my end, I can't believe Tiger ever thought he could get away with being that much of a cheat, as in,,,no one saw him,,did anyone have an idea,,and these nights he was not home, where was Elin, did she not ever call him, I personally think there are a lot of loose ends, to form any real type of opinion, other than to send prayers and hope it can be worked out, to satisfy the both of them,,,