Xana O’Neil NBC News San Diego:

A blonde party girl who is the latest self-described mistress to speak out about an alleged tryst with Tiger Woods apologized to the married golfer’s wife today and called the fling a mistake.

“I am deeply sorry, I wish I could take it back,” Cori Rist told the “Today” show.

In an interview on the “Today” show Monday, the 31-year-old club-going mother of one said the world’s No. 1 golfer led her on about a possible future together and confessed to her that his five-year marriage to model Elin Nordegren was crumbling.

Really? That’s a pretty standard excuse. She would not have done what she did if that darn Woods character had not led her on.

If he promised her the moon then it stands the reason she would accept after telling him “but first you have to divorce your wife”. Somehow it never works out that way.

There is more to come and it’s going to be quite a sport separating fact from fiction.