from www.usmagazine.com – Tiger Woods once dated LeAnn Rimes, according to the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now).

Woods, now 34, and Rimes, 27, “went out a few times” before she wed soon-to-be ex-husband Dean Sheremet in 2002, says a source.

“They hooked up and everything,” the source tells Us. “Tiger was really into her. He likes those blondes!”

Alas, Rimes’ dad protested because he thought his teen daughter was too young to date the famed golfer, seven years her senior. “Then her dad almost had a heart attack,” the source adds. “And he made her stop seeing Tiger.”

Interestingly, both Woods and Rimes went on to have affairs during their marriages.

Woods recently apologized to wife Elin, 30, for numerous flings. Rimes famously had an on-set tryst with Eddie Cibrian while shooting the 2009 Lifetime movie Northern Lights (she and Cibrian, 36, are still together).