Tiger's cheating was no secret

Last updated 12:25 24/12/2009

Reuters

COLD: Tiger Woods has been described as "cold" by top woman player Helen Alfredsson who added that his affairs were well known on the pro circuit.

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A top female professional golfer has claimed that Tiger Woods' cheatng was well known on circuit.

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

Alfredsson, who is Swedish like Tiger's wife Elin Nordegren, had nothing complimentary to say about the game's number one player and the revelations he has had affairs with up to 14 women which he had managed to keep a secret for such a long time.

"In the quietest water swims the ugliest fish," Alfredsson, a winner 14 times internationally and seven times on the US LPGA tour, said.

She described Woods as "cold" and said there was "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 also wondered why he had bothered to get married.

"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.

While Woods has apologised for his infidelities and taken an indefinite leave from the game to in an attempt to save his marriage, Alfredsson has said she doubts he can change.

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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