It has been revealed that basketball legend Michael Jordan once offered sex tips to golfing great Tiger Woods, before he went on to become the focus of one of the most high-profile cheating scandals sport has ever seen.

In November 2009, Woods was claimed to have had an extramarital affair with New York City nightclub manager Rachel Uchitel.

The 15-time major winner was then alleged to have had several other mistresses, which saw his golf career collapse after many years at the top.

However, it seems Woods wasn’t always the smoothest talker when it came to chatting up the opposite sex, and had help from serial lady killer Jordan.

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Speaking on ESPN’s The Last Dance series, which focuses on the Chicago Bulls’ memorable 1997-98 campaign, Jordan has revealed how he became good friends with Woods.

It’s thought that the golfer was warned to stay away from six-time NBA winner Jordan as he rose into sporting superstardom.

But an awe-struck Woods, who idolised arguably the greatest basketball player of all-time as a child, just couldn’t stay away from Jordan.

Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan became good friends during their time in the sporting spotlight
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Jordan claims that Woods walked up to himself and baseball icon Derek Jeter in a New York night club in 1999 to ask how to pick up girls.

Jordan and Jeter didn’t have much advice though, simply replying: ”Just go tell them you’re Tiger Woods.”

In a biography of Woods, written by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian, lawyer and family friend John Merchant gave a pretty damning verdict of Jordan.

Merchant said via Yahoo Sports: “Michael can play basketball as well as anyone who’s ever played the game.

“There isn’t anything else that Michael is good at doing. Nothing! And he’s had too many years of being out there in public. So he’s going to try to use you.”