The Tiger Woods story keeps getting more bizarre. Yesterday, Health Central Hospital in Orlando, Florida was back as part of the story as Elin Nordegren’s mother was taken to the hospital. She has since been released, but the entire episode just added to the media frenzy surrounding this story. It also brings the spotlight back to Tiger’s home situation. Will Elin be leaving Tiger soon to escape back to Sweden? There’s also speculation that Tiger and Elin may escape nearer to Sweden together.

Meanwhile, Steve Lewis has a devastating post describing what really happens in the VIP world frequented by Tiger and his alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel. Lewis explains the world dominated by bottle service, VIP hostesses and the special attention and services provided to whales and VIP athletes. Needless to say, facilitating access to hot girls is the top priority.

Finally, we’re starting to see cracks in the Tiger Woods marketing machine. Gatorade announced that they had discontinued a Tiger drink, though they claim the decision had been made before the controversy. Also, reports say that most Tiger commercials have been pulled from the air since the beginning of the month. That’s not a surprise.

What’s next?

The problem for Tiger Woods is that he’s now a punch line, and the sponsors hate that. George Lopez had a field day last night in his monologue. He’s focused on the tag lines used by Tiger’s sponsors and how they now have a new meaning with the scandal. Accenture says “Be a Tiger.” Nike says “Just Do it.” And, the best one is Gatorade which says “Is It In You?” Ouch! Check out the hilarious clip of Lopez above.

The bad news keeps coming for crazy Tiger Woods, as the number mistresses keeps rising. I think the current number is six. We finally have a real hottie thrown in the mix (see Jamie Jungers above)

Now Tiger is considering going on Oprah to salvage his reputation. In one sense it’s probably not a bad idea. On the other hand, who knows what his state of mind is right now. Even in his statement where he admitted “transgressions” he seemed to be pointing fingers at the media and not taking full responsibility. If he goes on Oprah with a chip on his shoulder he’s going to make things even worse.

Until now, Team Tiger seems interested in one thing and one thing only – protecting his public image to keep the money train going. Unless he’s really sorry for what he’s done (as opposed to being sorry for getting caught), he won’t be doing himself any good with an interview with Oprah.

US Weekly is reporting that a cocktail waitress from Los Angeles is claiming to have had an affair with Tiger Woods.

A Los Angeles cocktail waitress tells the new Us Weekly (on newsstands Wednesday) that she had a steamy 31-month fling with Tiger Woods and has a voicemail recording and text messages to prove it.

Jaimee Grubbs, now 24, tells Us Weekly she began having an affair with Woods, 33, in April 2007.

She tells Us Weekly they went on to have 20 sexual encounters.

I guess we shouldn’t be surprised to hear more stories like this. As with the Rachel Uchitel alleged affair, who know what to believe here. Needless to say this has all become a PR nightmare for Tiger Woods, one of the most bankable sports figures in history.

The difference here is that we have a woman who is claiming she had an affair with Tiger, as opposed to the Uchitel story where others are claiming an affair took place, with Uchitel denying it.

Hat tip: SPORTSbyBROOKS

UPDATE: SPORTSbyBROOKS is on the case again with two new photos of Jaimee Grubbs.

Several years ago, and bunch of photos of a gorgeous nude blonde were being passed around the Net with the claim that they were of the new wife of Tiger Woods – Elin Nordegren. Everyone believed it, as the nude blonde in the photos looked like Tiger’s beautiful bride. But that wasn’t the case – the photos were actually of Playboy model Kimberly Hiott (now one of our favorite models). Elin actually won a cash settlement and an apology from an Irish magazine for publishing the photos. Elin has been in the news lately as a result of the infamous Tiger Woods accident and all the surrounding intrigue.

That’s one of Kimberly Hiott’s photos above, and you can see the incredible photo shoot here (NSFW photos!)