Leave it to the Brits to figure out how Tiger Woods managed to "philander" without attracting media attention.

Every now and then the expectant crowds will part so that a headset-wearing hostess can march through, accompanied by wealthy men who are known in the industry as "whales". They are ushered to a cordoned-off area overlooking the main arena, where they are brought extortionately priced drinks and assigned a "mood advisor," whose duties include plumping up the cushions and offering, with the words "blondes or brunettes, sir?" to drag willing young women off the dancefloor to join the party.

Tiger Woods was a whale. In fact he was one of the biggest and most coveted (a blue whale, perhaps?) in a multimillion-dollar industry that stretches from London and Ibiza to New York, Miami, Dubai, Vegas and any number of global "party towns". And it is testament to the success with which the VIP nightclub scene quietly facilitates the indiscretions of not just Woods, but scores of other actors and sportsmen, that the scandal which prompted him to quit golf "indefinitely" to concentrate on being "a better husband, father and person" took so long to emerge.

Too bad for him the expensive "brothels" he frequented didn't pay the women to keep their mouths shut! I suspect it's because the women didn't know they were being "pimped" by the clubs they frequent and thought Tiger had selected them as a "girlfriend." I suspect that's why so many of them have been coming forward saying "No, I'm his girlfriend!"