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Tiger Woods' affairs were not a secret on the golf circuit

Updated on: 24 December,2009 07:19 AM IST  | 
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Swedish golfer Helen Alfredsson says many on the golfing circuit were aware of Woods' affairs since the British Open last year

Tiger Woods' affairs were not a secret on the golf circuit

Swedish golfer Helen Alfredsson says many on the golfing circuit were aware of Woods' affairs since the British Open last year






Helen Alfredsson

Alfredsson became the first professional golfer to say she had heard stories about Woods cheating on his Swedish wife Elin, the New York Daily News reported, citing her interview with Swedish television station TV4.

"I heard it last summer during the British Open," Alfredsson said, describing Woods as "cold" and saying there was "something odd about him" that belied the clean image he enjoyed until the sex scandal erupted four weeks ago.

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

Woods, a week shy of his 34th birthday, has indefinitely halted his golf career to cope with personal issues in the wake of a media storm that has seen at least 14 women claim affairs with him.

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

Alfredsson, 44, said she wondered why Woods even bothered to marry when he was reportedly using Elin's pregnancy as an excuse for not being with a woman a full 12 months before his first child was born.

"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?" Alfredsson pondered.

Elin Woods has reportedly hired a divorce attorney and was said to be most upset about Woods carrying on one relationship for three years and another while she was pregnant.

Golf Digest, which pictured Woods and United States President Barack Obama on its latest cover before the
scandal broke, said Woods will not write his usual monthly pieces for the magazine during his professional
hiatus.

Woods has written for Golf Digest since turning professional in 1996.

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