Tiger Woods appears shirtless on the February cover of Vanity Fair.

The unpublished photos taken by Annie Leibovitz before the scandal that has turned the married life and career of golf champion upside down.

The photo on the cover shows Tiger Woods shirtless, exercising with free weights. Other unpublished photos are found in the magazine that will be on newsstands in the coming days.

Tiger Woods has obviously declined to be interviewed about recent events, but the journalist Buzz Bissinger, winner of a Pulitzer Prize, discusses the scandal in an accompany article and notes an interview with GQ from 1997, in which he Woods speak freely of women, gender and the prfessional sports world.

Bissinger claims that Woods has paid up to $60 000 for escorts and he said he married only to get a better public image. He had paid his harem of conquests between 5000 and 10 000 per month each as it is silent.

According to the journalist, the Tiger Woods scandal has made a lot more noise than those involving other athletes because Woods seemed infallible

Woods said during the tape recorded interview: “What I can’t figure out is why so many good-looking women hang around baseball and basketball. Is it because, you know, people always say that, like, black guys have big dicks?”

Bissinger notes that during a photo shoot — “where four women attended to his every need and flirted with him as he flirted back” — Woods told a joke. He rubbed the tips of his shoes together.

Tiger Woods Goes Shirtless On Cover Of Vanity Fair