Shamed Tiger Woods spotted at sex clinic

Celebrity website radaronline.com reported the next issue of the US tabloid magazine National Enquirer will feature photographs of the world's No. 1 golfer at Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

The site posted eight photos that allegedly show Woods - wearing white shorts and a dark hooded sweatshirt - at the Pine Grove facility where the Gentle Path sexual addiction programme is conducted.

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Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, declined to comment on the photographs or whether Woods was at the clinic.

If the photographs are authentic, they would be the first of Woods since he appeared at half-time of a Stanford-Cal football game on November 21 when he was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame.

Six days later, Woods crashed his car into a tree outside his home in Florida, setting off a stunning downfall over allegations of rampant extramarital affairs.

Woods eventually confessed to infidelity, and he said he would take an indefinite break from golf while he tries to save his marriage. He hasn't been seen in public since the November 27 accident.

Since then, there have been reports that he has been spotted everywhere from Arizona to Africa, from New York to the Bahamas. No one has been able to come up with a photo, which industry officials have estimated would be worth $100,000 or more.

The photographs obtained by the National Enquirer show a man resembling Woods looking directly at the camera as he walks out the Pine Grove clinic carrying a plastic cup.

He shares Woods' physique, facial makeup - unshaven, with signs of a goatee - and even appears to be wearing a cap with the golfer's logo.

The pictures appear to have been taken from outside the facility with a telephoto lens while a gate that allows vehicles to pass in and out was open. The compound is ringed with a weathered wooden fence, about 8 feet tall, and dotted with brick buildings, like the one in the background of the photos.

There's a sign on the fence with the logo of Forrest General Hospital, which owns Pine Grove.

Officials at the clinic would neither confirm nor deny his presence, noting that it would be a violation of privacy.

Pine Grove is one of the United States's top addiction treatment facilities. Treatment at the Gentle Path compound lasts up to six weeks.