Las Vegas Weekly

December 30, 2009 · 12:53 PM

Tiger Woods turns 34 today — where is the golf superstar?

By Robin Leach

Tiger Woods.

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It’s been one month since golf great Tiger Woods has been seen, and he’s not expected to surface today to celebrate his 34th birthday or tomorrow for New Year’s Eve partying.

It was back in the early morning hours of the day after Thanksgiving that police were called to Tiger’s private Florida estate after he fled his home barefoot, drove his Cadillac Escalade over a fire hydrant and ended in a crash in a neighbor’s lawn against a tree. He was taken to a hospital at 3 a.m. and released later the same day -- and has not been spotted since.

Tiger has subsequently released two statements confirming his marital transgressions as some 18 women have come forward with torrid tales of sex and infidelities. Those racy revelations came in a torrent after the National Enquirer first headlined his alleged romps in Australia with former Tao hostess Rachel Uchitel.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

Ben Roethlisberger and Tiger Woods.

Many of the lusty and lurid late-night revelry involved his myriad scandalous shenanigans here in Las Vegas at nightclubs and high-roller casino suites. Some titillating trysts have allegedly involved strippers, porn stars and high-paid escorts -- and in fact had been hushed up as anonymous items in both Vegas DeLuxe and in my gossip guru pal Norm Clarke’s columns.

I reported in October that while hidden from general view in one Las Vegas private club skybox, he’d been blatantly having girls invited up to a pal’s high-roller suite to party more, and then again just before the sensational scandal breaking wide open, he’d been partying excessively and had to be helped out of another Las Vegas club in the company of two professional girlfriends.

Reports have been published in the past two days confirming our initial stories of the violent Thanksgiving night fight inside his home. We have reported that his mother allegedly smashed his mouth with the very IPhone he’d been texting the former TAO hostess and that Tiger’s wife, Elin Nordegren, allegedly trashed all the trophies inside their home with a golf club while her sister chased him out of the house and smashed the windows of the SUV as he departed.

Reports yesterday from sports writers also confirm our exclusive story a week ago that he’d been flown to a sex rehab clinic in Arizona for treatment after plastic surgery on a broken cheekbone and to repair dental damage. It’s believed that it’s the same sex clinic where Michael Douglas and David Duchovny reportedly sought treatment.

Photo: Erik Kabik/Retna/www.erikkabikphoto.com

Tiger Woods.

The world's top golfer, who will mark his 34th birthday today in seclusion, has already announced that he’ll give up tournament play for the foreseeable future. It’s still unknown if he will host his annual Tiger Jam Foundation charity dinner and concert fundraiser here at Mandalay Bay this spring, although early unconfirmed reports have indicated that he’s pulled out of that, too.

The sex scandal has dominated headlines in the past month and will continue into the New Year, but it’s made all the more mysterious in that he’s been MIA now for a full month, and even with today’s birthday and New Year’s Eve celebrations tomorrow, he’s still unlikely to surface.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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