NYPost – Which well-liked pro golfer once switched sponsors because he needed several million dollars in hush money? Seems he knocked up a stripper while playing at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, and had to pay her off to keep their love child a secret.
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Tiger Woods.
My thought too. Who was his sponsor before Nike?
tiger woods HARDLY needs help with money. he’s one of the highest paid. it’s someone who wouldn’t have an extra couple mil lying around. tiger has that and more.
No way.
yes he loves blonde strippers. dont let his image fool you. denzel washington is the same as well he knocked up sanaa lathan and they have secret love child as well.
um, Sanaa does not have a child. I know her and when on earth did she ever disappear from the public eye for 9 months straight to carry a child? False.
Which person can actually believe that Tiger needs a new sponsor to be able to scrounge up some ‘hush money?’ He is one of the highest paid athletes in the history of the sports world. Please. No way.
Looks like Tiger has been with Nike since 1996…
Tiger’s always been a Nike man. This sounds a lot like something Phil Mickelson might have done back in the day.
Lefty is a skeezer. I’m placing my vote here!
I am going to agree on this one. Phil is a total douche bag and treats other PGA players like dirt. He’s the most hated man in golf.
I heard it was Mickelson…I first heard this story a few months ago. Well before the Tiger started crouching and hiding.
Tiger has more money than most of his sponsors, so I doubt he’s need to do anything unusual to come up with several million in cash. I’m thinking someone older, like Palmer or Nicklaus. Is John Daly too easy a target?
why would john daly need to keep it a secert it’s not like he has some kind of reputation to save….
Sergio Garcia
Agree 100%… Garcia is a bachelor, and I would think that the blind would have mentioned if the guy was married.
Word! And he was well-known enough, but never made Tiger/Lefty-type money.
I’m not sure it’s Tiger…he did have that Buick gig. That’s not exactly switching sponsors, but adding one.
Tiger in a money crunch? Dude’s worth hundreds of millions.
actualy, pushing $1 billion.
$1 Billion in GROSS EARNINGS. Much less after taxes, spending on his houses and security and the nightclubbing.
The richer they are, the more cheapskate they are.
John Daly. http://nationalsportsreview.com/sports/us/digitalsportsdaily/2009/06/04/john-daly-returns-to-pga-tour-with-new-sponsor/
That drunk is no stranger to strip clubs.
If not for that whole “well-liked” thing, I’d say you were on to something, but he’s screwed up too many times to fall into that category.
ACTUALLY, I’m kinda in the know about this…he is pretty well liked among the other golfers, it’s just the women in his life & the PGA big-wigs that don’t care much for him – see, I have a friend who is on the PGA tour and this much I know is true. NOT sure if the blind is about him, but don’t discount him just because of the “well-liked” comment.
He might be a really nice guy, but it doesn’t say “well-liked among other golfers”. I agree that this is somebody with a much cleaner image to protect than Daly.
Could be John Daly, known to frequent strip joints, known to have money problems, wouldn’t surprise me a bit. Defintely not Tiger.
rocco mediate
It’s Phil Mickelson. Reportedly the stripper is a black girl.
You think that would be true but Phil Mickelson is the most hated man in Golf (by the other golfers). He is far from well liked. Google it.
Whether the golfer has lots of money may not be relevant if the issue is how to get money to girlfriend without the (golfer’s) wife finding out. If the golfer pays out his own money, and we are apparently talking millions, his accountant, lawyer and probably wife will see it. If the golfer signs with a new sponsor who pays most of the money directly to the girlfriend then there will never be a paper trail for wifey.
Totally agree.
Yeah, I had heard that it is Mickelson too. It being TIger would be silly. His net worth is something like $700 million. He could knock up every stripper in North America.
It’s not Tiger. As any golf fan would know, he’s been with Buick and Nike from the beginning, and he’s also impeccably schooled in how to avoid destroying himself with a bimbo. Tiger is not perfect, but stupid he ain’t.
I go with Garcia. Almost all top players on the tour are married, and the blind doesn’t mention whether the subject is or isn’t, implying he isn’t. Garcia isn’t married, and he thinks he’s quite the cassanova, so I could easily see him getting into a predicament like this.
“…he’s also impeccably schooled in how to avoid destroying himself with a bimbo.” you’re joking, right? ‘cuz i think tiger has done an *excellent* job of destroying himself with bimbo(s).
Huhhh…what a difference a few months can make.
So true!
Ditto! A complete 180 – going back and reading the comments from August is so funny. I remember this blind and didn’t believe it could be Tiger either….then.
Hello, the only bimbo affecting him financially now (as far as money he already has, not future endorsements) is his wife!
Fredie Couples “possibly” when going thru tuff divorce needed everything hush-hush
Just talked to 5 guys playing 18 holes as I type n they all said in unison “mickelson”
Phil Mickelson he’s well known to be a womanizer, everyone on the tour knows it…
Yes, exactly. Sad, that I actually know a pro golfer or two. I hate golf
Jack Nicklaus…he’s from Ohio
Ed Fiori?
Is it possible to knock up a stripper without requiring medical treatment oneself?
idk why this made me laugh
Perhaps it was Phil. http://ballhype.com/story/phil_ditches_cap_in_sponsor_dispute/
Just for the record, Tiger was originally with Titleist. He played their clubs and Pro V1 golf ball. He switched to Nike.
Make that Nicklaus!
Definitely 100% Phil Mickelson.
hmmmm… won’t be long before this comes out if this is tiger too.
My money is on Mickelson. He changed to Callaway just before a big event to everyone’s surprise not so long ago. Rumour was to pay off gambling debts or hush money to a girl.
what’s up? old blind. pinned liked solved. no solved tag…
agreed! and Tiger uses condoms,idiot!
i could support my boyfriend if he cheats me but he give me STD or made child with another woman:i could kill him
Does it need a solved tag? BG should have a “durrr….” tag.
Rumor that went around for a while was that Mickelson was trying to pay off his wife’s gambling debts by changing to Callaway. Maybe that was a cover for this.
Not Tiger Woods. The blind says “well-liked.” Tiger has a reputation for not being liked at all since he practically carries a sign around him that says DO NOT APPROACH. (Unless you’re a stripper, that is.)
LOL!! So funny ,but also very true.
I live in golf country, and worked for a golf publications for several years. This is Mickleson, I’ve heard this story a zillion times.
All that being said, I’d rather eat a wet sandwich than watch golf or hang out with golfers. ZZZZZZZZ.
Thank you, BG, for leveling the playing field just a bit.
h00bydice, please elaborate!
Recognizing that this is an old blind and going with the early consensus that this is about Phil Mickleson, I’m happy to have it pointed out that Tiger is not unique in his transgressions…because he isn’t…even though the media is portraying him that way.
I think this whole notion of turning athletes into role models – i.e., “perfect people” because they can bat a ball around – is patently unfair. They’re human beings first, with all of the shortcomings that come with it. The PR machines that promote this kind of nonsense are wittingly setting these folks up to fail. Tiger has toppled so hard because nobody can maintain such an image – perfection is impossible. Playing so fast & loose with his marriage suggests to me that he wanted to get caught.
I’m not condoning his choices in displaying his frailties, just sayin’…
Well said, I was wondering what the connection to the repost was. Thanks for the reply.
Oh, please. He’s the world’s first billion dollar athlete, controls everything single thing that goes on around him and as a result thinks he can do whatever he wants.
He wanted to get caught? “Hey, perfection is too impossible to maintain, I can’t take it, so let me cheat on my wife multiple times, over a number of years, even after she gives birth to two of my children, because I know if I get caught it will ruin me and destroy the public image that I make 100 million a year off of.” I’m sure that’s why he did it, not because he likes getting his rocks off.
I am sick of people making up excuses for him. He cheated on his wife with at least 8 women- at least because you know that there are other women out there who are too embarrassed to come forward and admit to it. You do that you are a scum bag, OK? There is no, “well I can understand why because…” No, he-are-a-scum-bag.
Everyone on this site and the internet complains about how bad all these celebs are who cheat on their spouses, but for Tiger it’s OK. I have read a million excuses for him.
…moral of this story: neither money nor unique talent renders you superhuman. In spite of it all, you’re still a mere mortal.
I join with those who are guessing Phil. He IS well-liked by the public (maybe not so much by the other golfers). He is also very public about his gambling, so it is easy to see him being in a temporary pinch for cash.
Also, about Tiger (even though this one is not about him): Yes, his net worth is in the hundreds of millions, but how much of that is really liquid (where he can just get his hands on cash without his business managers and accoutants knowing about it)? Those big contracts are highly complicated and structured (to lessen the tax bite, mostly) and even a rich athlete like Tiger might not have easy access to untraceable cash.
When I first read this blind I thought about Tiger for a minute and then I thought NO, NOT Tiger, he is so clean cut. My perception of him totally changed after all his sexual escapades. This sounds like Tiger.
isnt this an old bi
yes, I see the August posts are showing but am having major deja vu’ . . . ?huh
ahh, so this Tiger “thing” has been unraveling for months, is that the point of the repost?
, . . . turned out to be a great blind item & makes me want to reread all the other ones, lol
I bet Mickleson is (secretly)
Exactly, the first time – wasn’t this a blind from CDAN? not the NY Post?
Um… it says well-liked pro golfer”. Tiger Woods may be a LOT of things, but I don’t think anyone in their right mind would call him well liked now!
No, he is not well liked now but this blind is from Aug. so he was well liked then.
Still curious why this one was pinned without any Solved or Updated note. Never really seen bg do that before.
Catie, that’s because BG works in mysterious ways and likes to keep everyone on their toes. Love, BG
It may be that this has been bumped up in light of new gossip surrounding Tiger Woods. Mistresses have been emerging from everywhere but not kids… yet. It’s one thing to have women and meaningless relationships on the side, but it’s quite another to have a secret family on the side as well.
I could easily see this being Tiger. I am surpised that a love child hasn’t surfaced yet. He carried on these affairs for years and had unprotected sex – how is there not a love child?!
I would imagine that celebs who have secret children pay the mother of the child quite well to keep it a secret and if they were to come out and tell everyone they would suddenly find themselves cut off rather quickly.
I think if Tiger has a secret child out there somewhere that after all this started to happen he made it clear to the mother that she better stay quiet or else.
the problem with being a gossip whore is i found myself watching the golf channel last night for clues. Golf channel for pete’s sake?
and i have to agree with those guessing Phil. There was great mention of him shockingly switching sponsers, between matches, w/o warning.
and if you goggle phil + love child, it seems only a secret from those of us whose only experience with golf is drunken cart driving from time to time. (You chase the ball, I’ll watch the cart and margaritas)
Yep, it’s Phil. The rumor is that all of the recent development has put him in a state of great bother rather than schadenfreude.
you mean, like . . . he’s next?
Cuz if they can bring Tiger Woods down, then noone is safe?