Caddie offers his support amid new rumors about Woods

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Tiger Woods' caddie said yesterday he supports his boss while the world's No. 1 golfer copes with allegations of extramarital affairs.

Steve Williams has been Woods' caddie the last 10 years. He refused to discuss Woods' private life, although he said the golfer had confided in him.

"That's what friends are for," he told the New Zealand Herald. "You support them through good and bad. It's like marriage, really."

Williams also told the newspaper he expected to carry Woods' bag in San Diego the last week in January.

He said Woods called to say he was withdrawing from the Chevron World Challenge in California because of injuries from his Nov. 27 car crash.

Williams was to have driven in a dirt-track car race at Te Marua, north of Wellington, last night, but he withdrew because of engine trouble.

Meanwhile, the New York Daily News, RadarOnline.com, and other media organizations reported that a fourth woman, Jamie Jungers of Las Vegas, has been connected to Woods and that she has hired a Florida attorney.

Without naming Jungers, TMZ.com reported that a fourth "alleged mistress" began having an affair with Woods in 2004, when she was 20, that the relationship started near Woods' Orlando home, and that it lasted more than two years.

RadarOnline reported that Jungers will give her account of events in a British newspaper.

Of the four women linked to Woods, two have denied having an affair with him. Only one, Jamie Grubbs, has contended she had an affair with the golfer.