Helen Alfredsson Blows the Cover on Tiger's Already Blown Cover

Tiger Woods had affairs with lots of women (the number is relatively irrelevant, although it appears to be high).

That's not a secret. What was a secret -- kind of, anyway, as noted earlier -- until today was whether members of the PGA and the golfing world actually knew about his infidelities and off-course behavior.

Helen Alfredsson, in recent comments made to a Swedish television station, made it very clear that she did.

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

"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 referred to Woods as "cold" and stated that there was "something odd about him." She is, of course, the first golf professional to step forward and admit knowledge of Woods' "transgressions" but there's no telling if she will be the last.

It would seem relatively unlikely that you would hear a PGA player step forward; the thought of being paired with Woods for 18 holes after having sullied his reputation and public image (even further) seems rather unpalatable. Not to mention the whole notion of "throwing stones in glass houses" and the pervasive "brotherhood" theme that runs throughout all professional sports leagues.

Alfredsson, on the other hand, doesn't have to worry about encountering Tiger that much. Additionally, like Nordegren, she is Swedish, and it seems fairly obvious that a sense of nationality would further enable her to "get Elin's back" in the public eye.