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A shirtless, sweaty Woods graces the cover of February's Vanity Fair, showing off exactly what it was all those mistresses were so enthralled by.

The pic, which was taken before the scandal, accompanies an article on the figure who may be golf's greatest player, and also its biggest scandal.

"He exhibited the same superhuman confidence off the golf course that he exhibited on it, apparently convinced he would never be caught despite the stupid sloppiness at the end—text messages, voice-mail messages," says the article's author, Buzz Bissinger. "He deluded himself into thinking he could be something that he wasn’t: untouchable. The greatest feat of his career is that he managed to get away with it for so long in public, the bionic man instead of the human one who hit a fire hydrant."

With a possible costly divorce ahead of him and a (hopefully) temporary break from golf, it still remains to be seen if this scandal will permanently damage Tiger's image, or if he can bounce back.