ORLANDO, Fla. — He’s collateral damage in the tangled Tiger Woods sex mess.
Former bartender Brian Kimbrough, 28, told The Post that he blames Woods for stealing his vivacious girlfriend, claiming the golfer invited her to his mansion for steamy hookups and incessantly called her on her cellphone.
Woods’ name would come up on his girlfriend’s caller ID as “Mr. Brightside,” said Kimbrough, who mixed drinks at the Roxy Night Club in Orlando in 2004 when then-girlfriend Julie Postle was first pursued by the golf great.
“Mr. Brightside” is a song by the rock band The Killers and features lyrics about a jealous male lover.
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Postle’s trysts and phone calls with the golfer continued even after Woods was married later that year, Kimbrough alleged.
Kimbrough said that he ultimately broke up with Postle, who now lives in Texas, but that she recently contacted him to ask for his cellphone records — she was using one of his phones during the alleged Woods affair — so she and her lawyer could prove a hush-hush hookup.
The beau said that while Postle and he were dating, “she promised [the affair] would stop.
“She said she wasn’t pursuing it but [that] she couldn’t stop [Woods] from calling. She’d tell me he’d call, invite her out to dinner, invite her to play golf, invite over to his house,” he said.
“She said she wasn’t going, but now that I look back, I’m sure she was . . . And when she called me for the phone records, she admitted it.”
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“One time, her phone rang, and it said a weird name on it — ‘Mr. Brightside,’ ” Kimbrough said. “And I was like, ‘What the hell is this?’ She grabbed the phone, smiled and said it was Tiger but didn’t answer it. But she played me the voice mail. It said, ‘Hey, it’s Tiger, just seeing how you’re doing. Give me a call.’ ”
Kimbrough said that when Postle finally ‘fessed up to the affair, she insisted Woods hadn’t married his Swedish wife, Elin Nordegren, for love.
“She said Tiger told her that his marriage was for publicity. She said it was for his image, and the tabloids and wasn’t real.”
Still Kimbrough fell for Postle, whom he says he met just before she turned 21 in 2004.
“She was hot,” he said.
“She had a way of attracting people to her.”
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He said Postle was a waitress at the Roxy when she met Woods and told a tale of calling him from the golfer’s home soon after.
“She was in his closet at 5 a.m. calling me, and he was in the background telling her to get off the phone. He knew she had a boyfriend and was like, ‘Don’t call him,’ ” Kimbrough said.
Still, Kimbrough said Postle told him, “I’m not too impressed with the house.”
He said that because it was still early in their own relationship, “I wasn’t pissed.”
But that changed as Postle and Woods appeared to grow more serious, he said.
Kimbrough said that when he and Postle broke up in 2005, she confessed to him that, at one point, the golfer had “invited her to Vegas, offered her money and said, ‘If you want to break up with your boyfriend, I can give you some money to get you on your feet.’ ”
Several of Kimbrough’s claims were verified by Nola Coles, the mother of Postle’s former Orlando roommate, Morgan Coles — whose phone records, the mother said, also were sought because Tiger used to call Postle on Coles’ phone, too.
“Tiger was obsessed, really hunted her,” Nola Coles said. “He used to go into Roxy demanding Julie. ‘Where’s Julie? I want to see Julie.’
“She was 20, and I said, ‘You’ve got to get a condo out of this,’ ” the mother said, “and she said, ‘Oh, no, I can’t do that to Tiger.’ ”
Postle did not answer a phone number listed for her in Texas.
Her lawyer, Michael O’Quinn, last night told The Post, “I have no comment.”