Tiger Woods got all warm and fuzzy in text messages to Rachel Uchitel, a New York party girl with a tragedy in her past, it was revealed Wednesday.
"I know it's brutal on you that you can't be with me all the time," the golfer texted Uchitel in a message obtained by InTouch magazine.
"I get it. It f-----g kills me, too. I finally found someone I connect with."
In a line that had to be a stab in the heart of Woods' wife Elin Nordegren, the grammar-challenged golfer wrote that Uchitel was "someone I have never found like this. Not even at home."
Getting even gooeyer, Woods wrote in his Nov. 9 missive that "you want someone to witness your life."
"I want you to lay next to me, lay on me or where ever you want to lay," he texted. "Why didn't we find each other years ago. We wouldn't be having this conversation."
Later on in the correspondence, Woods and Uchitel apparently had a spat.
"I don't know if this is going to work," he wrote. "I thought I was getting to know you, but it feels like I'm just another person who happens to be famous ... I don't know what person I was falling for so hard."
"I am so confused, because what my brain is saying and what my heart is saying are two different things. Is it the Rachel I know or the character?"
Woods, 33, wrapped by writing, "That's what's hard. It guts me to think I've fallen for the wrong one."
The golfing great was reportedly caught texting Uchitel by his wife shortly before he stormed out of their Orlando-area mansion and smashed his SUV in the early hours of Nov. 27.
That accident totalled Woods' carefully cultivated family image and drew at least seven other women out of the Woods-work with claims of bedding the world's best golfer.
"No comment," Uchitel's celebrity lawyer, Gloria Allred, wrote Wednesday when The Daily News asked her if the text messages obtained by InTouch were legit.
Uchitel, 34, initially denied a National Enquirer report that she had been having an affair with Wood. She has not responded to reports that she had a rendezvous with the disgraced duffer last month in Australia.
A fixture on the Manhattan party scene who reportedly met Woods in June at a nightspot in the Meatpacking District, Uchitel was engaged to a businessman who was killed on 9/11.
Playgirl magazine claims to have appear to be nude photos of the Woods and they plan on publishing them if they can confirm they're the real deal.
"We were approached by a third party who wanted to know our 'interest level," spokesman Daniel Nardicio said. "Our lawyers are currently going over them, the source, the entire package."
If the pix prove genuine, it would be a huge coup for Playgirl, which recently made a splash by publishing a nude spread of Levi Johnston, the baby daddy of Sarah Palin's only grandson.
But it could turn what has been for Woods a mostly personal disaster into a marketing meltdown.
Already there are signs that Woods' lucrative - and increasingly nervous - sponsors have misgivings about linking their products to the world's most famous golfer.
The Nielsen Company reported on Tuesday that the golfer, whose wholesome family man image made him millions, was last seen in a prime-time ad on Nov. 29 in a 30-second spot for Gillette.
Pepsico Inc. also confirmed it is dropping its Gatorade Tiger Focus drink. But the company insisted the decision was made Nov. 25 and had nothing to do with the sex scandal.
There was, however, one bright spot for Woods. A new Marist poll taken after the Woods whoopee scandal exploded found that 91% say the golfer's "transgressions" make no difference when deciding whether or not to buy a product endorsed by him.
Woods has made no public statements since he apologized last week for his "transgressions." He has reportedly offered Nordegren millions to keep her from walking out - and taking their two kids.
Nordegren, 29, recently bought a $2 million island hideaway in Sweden - fueling speculation she's itching to split.
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