The car crash incident lead Tiger Woods to become the hottest topic in major publications and other media. The incident revealed the extra-marital affairs of Woods with not just one woman but many women. Major dailies recently reported two more women which were allegedly have an affair with the golfer up to this moment. Another report said that Woods paid his women regularly to be discreet about the affairs. They received $5000 to $20,000 monthly payment. Many are speculating that his marriage is on the way for separation. His wife, Elin Nordegren is planning to move out and will return to his home country Sweden where she recently bought a house.

The latest personality linked to Woods is Theresa Rogers who is already on her 40’s. According to the Dailymail UK, the affair of Woods with Rogers was the longest lasting more than five years. Miss Rogers is a fitness buff and was married several times. By the way, Rogers is said to be the 14th lover of Woods. The New York Post also named a nightclub waitress Julie Postle, 25, for allegedly having an affair with Woods 5 years ago. The long list of mistresses will be haunting Woods as he continue to be silent on the issue. Although he already apologized to the fans about his reported affairs but he also asked them to leave that matter between him and his family. It was also posted on Woods’ website that he is planning to take a break from the sport and did not elaborate how long. According to some sources from the PGA, the absence of Tiger Woods in the succeeding tours would mean huge losses for them.

The burden of the top ranked golfer will not end soon since new controversies are being linked to him. Now, it’s about steroids and human growth hormone. Although these are all speculations, some people are already urging the PGA to investigate Woods on his possible involvement in performance enhancing drugs.

The issue came out when New York Times reported that his doctor was arrested in the US-Canada border for allegedly carrying human growth hormone and Actovegin, a drug derived from calf’s blood. Importation, distribution and use of Actovegin in the US is illegal. Dr. Anthony Galea is responsible for the treatment of Woods’ knee injury in 2008. The doctor used a blood-spinning technique to speed up the recovery of the pro golfer. The doctor is now under investigation by the FBI for his possible involvement in providing professional athletes with performance enhancing drugs.

The insinuation that Woods is on steroids was his continued consultation with the doctor. It was reported in the Times that Dr. Galea visited him at his Isleworth home 4 or 5 times between February and March of this year. The treatment made was allegedly due to the slow recovery of the golfer from his surgery. Dr. Galea is well known to elite athletes for helping them speed-up recovery from injuries by using platelet-rich plasma therapy. The doctor already denied that he prescribed steroids or human growth hormones to any professional athlete.

Mark Steinberg, the agent of Woods from International Management Group (IMG) said in a statement that the report on steroid and HGH was irresponsible. “The treatment of Tiger received is a widely accepted therapy and to suggest some connection with illegality is recklessly irresponsible,” he said. The Sentinel also quoted Steinberg’s reaction on their allege referral of Woods’ surgery to Dr. Galea. “The New York Times is flat wrong, no one at IMG has ever met or recommended Dr. Galea, nor were we worried about the progress of Tiger’s recovery, as the Times falsely reported.”

The PGA Tour is also on the rescue. According to Ty Votaw, the executive VP of communications and international affairs of PGA, they have not seen any violation of their anti-doping policy. “We have read nothing in the published articles about Dr. Galea that would suggest a violation of our anti-doping policy as it relates to Tiger Woods and Dr. Galea.”

But some sports columnists were not convinced on the press releases issued by Woods’ camp. Some suggests that an investigation should be conducted to make the issue clear. Mike Bianchi of the Sentinel asked this question on his blog. “Why should we blindly assume the world’s top golfer is immune to cheating when top athletes in nearly every other sport (baseball, football, track, swimming, cycling, etc., etc.) have been accused of using performance-enhancers. And, yes, some of these athletes (see Lance Armstrong, Alex Rodriguez, Marion Jones, etc.) were beloved role models just like Tiger.”

Even with so many allegations on immorality and steroid use, Tiger Woods was still named the Athlete of the Decade.

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