By Cliff Renfrew - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

In his hour of need, Tiger Woods has turned to the one person he can trust -- Byron Bell -- the guy who covered-up for his philandering with Rachel Uchitel while he was married to Elin Nordegren.

Bell -- who infamously allegedly bought a plane ticket for Uchitel so she could fly to Australia and hook-up with Woods --  will be his caddie at his comeback tournament at the Bridgestone Invitational in Ohio next week, according to The Golf Chanel.

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The golf star -- who has been out of action for 11 weeks because of a leg injury --  has turned to his boyhood pal after parting company with his long-standing caddie Steve Williams recently.

Bell caddied for Woods before Williams, but he stepped out of the limelight after he became linked with the sex scandal that engulfed the golfer when his marriage to Nordegren imploded following their infamous 2009 Thanksgiving alterca