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Another day, another mistress.
Tiger Woods's career has certainly attracted birdies in both senses of the word.
But the question is how did he find the time to play golf, let alone win 14 majors and become world No1, while accumulating at least nine lovers?
The answer is simple. He learned from the masters. Professional golf has a purer-than-driven-snow image - on which multi-million pound sponsors trade heavily.
That reputation is deserved on course, but it's a totally different story off course.
The scandal which has engulfed Woods has been so great that, this weekend, he was forced to announce he was quitting golf for an 'indefinite period' to attempt to repair his marriage.
But while Woods has taken womanising to a whole new level, playing the field is certainly a huge part of the culture.
Over a decade working as a golf correspondent, I attended the men's U.S., European and Australian tours every year, and learned that - with the exception of drugs and alcohol - everything that happens on your average rock tour, including whores and groupies, occurs in golf.
For example, almost all the thrice-married Nick Faldo's relationships have overlapped, and Greg Norman had a very brazen affair.
Norman's now ex-wife Laura Andrassy accepted a reported £50 million divorce settlement after his affair with former Wimbledon champion Chris Evert - who also happened to be her best friend.
When asked if she thought Norman had been faithful during their 25-year marriage, she simply said: 'No comment'.
Evert's former husband, erstwhile Olympic skier Andy Mills - also best friends with Norman - said: 'I'd have taken a bullet for the guy. I didn't realise he was going to pull the trigger.'
My first inkling that golfers might not be so squeaky clean came within a few weeks of starting work on the European tour when a married player with a reputation as a perfect family man suggested I interview him at his home in the evening. His wife and children were abroad, but I thought nothing of it.
First he claimed he was starving and suggested dinner before the interview. After the interview, he opened champagne, insisting he was honourable.
A teetotaller, I had a few sips to be polite, then said it was late and I needed to catch a train home. Smiling at my naivete, he said calmly: 'The last train's gone.'
The implication was there was no choice but for me to sleep with him. Needless to say, I made my excuses and left.
Later, on similar occasions, I would remind players they were married. The response was almost always a surprised, 'So what?' Or, that old classic, they claimed to have an 'open' marriage.
On another occasion, I was unpacking my tape recorder prior to interviewing a married player in a hotel room when he disappeared into the bathroom.
I was alarmed when I heard taps running, and yet more shocked when he grabbed me from behind wearing nothing but a towel.
When I tried to escape, he clung to me and poured out an anguished tale of how his wife didn't understand him and his child was difficult.
I only got away by pretending I found him attractive and would return later. Afterwards, I called my editor and refused to write up the interview, or even speak to the player ever again.
In Faldo and Woods's case, they were adored only-children, groomed for greatness by parents.
Later as multiple title-winning young men, their lucrative talent was pounced on by management companies and an army of sponsors, caddies, fitness advisors, coaches and hangers-on, who further massage their egos and add to their growing sense of entitlement.
In such an environment, women can become as disposable as golf balls.
Faldo's marriage to first wife Melanie Rockall ended after four-and-a-half years when it was revealed he'd checked into a hotel with another woman who claimed to be 'Mrs Faldo'.
That mistress was his then manager's secretary Gill Bennett. He married her in 1986 and they had three children. But it ended in an estimated £7.5million divorce when Faldo, in 1995, took up with buxom blonde 20-year-old University of Arizona golf student Brenna Cepelak.
In turn, Brenna was furious when Faldo traded her in three years later for beautiful Swiss
PR consultant Valerie Bercher.
In a scene similar to the one when Woods's wife reportedly attacked him with his clubs, Brenna took a nineiron to his precious £200,000 Porsche, causing £10,000 worth of damage.
'This one is going to last,' he said optimistically of his subsequent marriage to Bercher, but they, too, divorced in May 2006.
Since then he's been linked to Turkish-born Hulya Parta.
Elsewhere on the tour, I've witnessed two officials in a clinch with a couple of prostitutes in a U.S. hotel corridor and once bumped into another paying an escort girl in the car park of a U.S. motel.
Players' managers practically pimp for sportsmen. Tiger Woods's childhood friend Bryon Bell - also head of Tiger Woods's Design - is alleged by Hollywood gossip site tmz.com to have done just this for New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel when she flew to Australia to be with Tiger last month.
Swedish TV presenter Carolina Gynning recently claimeed she was approached by an 'agent' of Woods's seven or eight years ago when living in London.
She was persuaded to lunch with a 'really strange man' who asked her if she knew who Tiger Woods was. He said Tiger was looking for a girlfriend and he wanted to introduce me to him.'
It's astonishing that wives of cheating players stand by them. Last week, friends of Elin Nordegren, 29 - mother of Woods's daughter Sam, two, and son, Charlie, ten months - have said that, although devastated, she has no intention of divorce. 'She's a child of divorce and it's not the experience she wants to inflict on her own children.'
An insight into why the superstar behaved the way he has might be seen from a reply he gave veteran golf writer Liz Kahn, when she asked him, back in his amateur days, if he was ever intimidated by any of the professional players.
Woods fixed her with a steely glare and snapped: 'My father was a Green Beret [a member of the highly-regarded U.S. military special forces].' Kahn was stunned by the ice-cold, self-centred answer. She added: 'Humanity is lacking in him. It's indicative of the life he's leading. His attitude was: "I am who I am, I can do what I want. Don't question me."'
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