Tiger Woods and Rachel Uchitel still an item?

[HMG] – After Tiger Woods released that statement on December 11, advising the world he planned a time-out from Golf to focus on repairing his family, you might think all his…friends would be ancient history?

It seems you’d be wrong.

The word is that Rachel Uchitel, the first of the seemingly endless flotilla of floozies that have touched Tiger’s life, has been basically telling anyone who will listen that she and the 33-year old golfing star are still in contact.

“They are not over,” one friend has told Us. “Tiger has been texting her, trying to find time to get together again…He wasn’t even fazed!”

The source also explains why the 34-year old good-time girl – who has quite a rep for dating married celebs – continues to deny they even had an affair: She got $3-million from Tiger to keep her mouth shut.

But despite having scored a fat pay-day for doing nothing at all, her attention-seeking delusions persist, unabated;

“Rachel says Tiger was going to leave his wife for her, that he needed to be with her,” claims the friend.

And despite being ‘disgusted’ by the thirteen other women who have followed her out of the woodwork to score easy money from Tiger’s good name, the Manhattan-based club manager was spied recently at the Marina in West Palm Beach, Florida, just yards from Tiger’s $22-million yacht, Privacy – on which he’d planned time with his wife.

Now that might be a simple coincidence….Or it could mean we’ll see a cold day in Hades before this story will die.

I’ll leave it to you to decide…