Posted on 11/28/2009 6:19:36 AM PST by IbJensen
Tiger Woods was injured early Friday morning outside his Florida home when his car struck a fire hydrant, then crashed into a tree.
Tiger Woods, bolting his Florida mansion after a reported late-night fight with his wife, was found dazed and bleeding Friday after plowing his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree.
The world's No. 1 golfer was pulling out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m. when he double-bogeyed the getaway in his 2009 Cadillac Escalade, the Florida Highway Patrol said.
Wife Elin Nordegren heard the crash from inside the couple's $2.4 million home and went to her spouse's aid, police said.
The one-time Swedish model grabbed a golf club, smashed out a rear window in the SUV and helped Woods out of the wreck, said Windermere Police Chief Daniel Saylor.
But TMZ.com reported that a source said Nordegren scratched Woods' face after she went berserk over reports he was seeing another woman and chased him with a golf club, striking his vehicle as he ran from the home.
The Web site said the source talked to Woods after the smashup.
The crash came on the heels of reports in the National Enquirer and Star magazine that Woods had an affair with a New York nightclub hostess - who denied it last night to the Daily News.
Nordegren told cops she ran outside and discovered her husband bleeding from the mouth, with cuts on his lips, police said. She said she bashed out the rear window with the club and helped the 6-foot-1, 185-pound Woods out of the car.
Police arrived to find Woods, drifting in and out of consciousness, lying in the street with his wife watching over him, Saylor said. He was taken to a nearby hospital about 10 minutes later.
Cops said alcohol was not involved, but offered no explanation for where the world's richest athlete was headed alone in the middle of the night.
Woods and Nordegren live in the Isleworth neighborhood with their two children, 2-year-old Sam and 9-month-old Charlie.
The accident was part of a rough week for Woods, who is on the front page of this week's Enquirer under the headline "Tiger Woods Cheating Scandal."
The tabloid claimed Woods was having an affair with Rachel Uchitel - a sexy Manhattan hostess who lost a fiancé in the World Trade Center on 9/11 and was previously linked to married television star David Boreanaz.
Uchitel, a former party planner who has worked as a VIP hostess at swanky nightspots, denied it in a message sent to The News from her Facebook account.
"There is NO relationship with tiger these girls quoted in the story are not being truthful," she wrote.
"I resent my name being slung thru the mud."
The Enquirer story - and a similar story in Star - quoted a woman named Ashley Samson and said she was friends with Uchitel and passed a polygraph.
"I did not say those things to those 'sources' and im not friends with ashley simpson or whatever her name is," Uchitel insisted.
Woods had no comment beyond a statement that downplayed the accident.
"Tiger Woods was in a minor car accident outside his home last night," it read. "He was admitted, treated and released in good condition. We appreciate very much everyone's thoughts and well wishes."
Woods, 33, was taken by ambulance to Health Central Hospital in Ocoee after the crash, about a half-mile off the main drag in Windermere, just west of Orlando.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers went to Woods' home last night to talk to the golfer, but were turned away by Nordegren who said her husband was resting. She asked them to return today and they agreed, spokeswoman Kim Montes told the Orlando Sentinel.
His neighbors in the tree-lined development, with its private golf course and small lakes, include NBA star Shaquille O'Neal.
Police said the air bags on the 2009 Escalade did not deploy, meaning Woods was likely driving slower than 33 mph.
The crash remains under investigation and charges are possible against Woods, who has avoided public controversy in his stellar career. Woods owns 14 major championships, the second-highest total in golfing history, and earns more than $100 million annually from golf and his endorsement deals. He has captured 82 victories worldwide.
Last Saturday, Woods handled the coin toss before the California-Stanford football game. At halftime, the Stanford alum - accompanied by his wife - was inducted into his alma mater's sports Hall of Fame.
That’s actually a fascinating insight. Rather shows the difference; men marry a woman they love, cherish, care about and then proceed to use other women purely as toys.
If you reread what I posted, I said it was what the golf folks I know were saying. Not once did I claim it was true. Yet, you believe the Enquirer.
I wonder how this incident will affect property values in the neighbourhood!
An affair with a botox-lipped floozy? Where is this guy’s brain?
Apparently not between his ears... ;-)
Police arrived to find Woods, drifting in and out of consciousness, lying in the street with his wife watching over him, Saylor said.... “Get up, again, and I’ll scalp you with a nine iron, bitch!”
He should have stayed in the car.
LOL! I used that picture to describe how our team meetings were- with only one guy on the team.
Dumb move on her part (assuming this account is true). She could have walked away from this marriage with many millions, but this puts him in a position to dump her without paying her a dime and keep the kids.
LOL. Does that silhouette have a vertical rod in the middle so it can be used as a weather vane?
We must be related. I was just thinking the same thing.
You cant bash in the head of a cheatin’ man and expect to change things.
She is a beautiful woman, who would end up a rich beautiful woman. I wouldnt lower myself to deck any man..I would get him in the wallet..where it really hurts.
Well, Holmes, you make some good points, but it sounds like this case was assigned to Lestrade. It does seem odd that Woods could have suffered a significant head injury when backing out of the driveway, and that the wife would use a golf club to try to get him out of the car.
Gosh, we never suspected a thing. ;’) Thanks Perdogg!
http://www.tmz.com/2009/11/27/tiger-woods-fight-wife-crash-elin-nordegren/
“when he double-bogeyed the getaway” bwah-ha-hah!!!
LOLOLOL!
I dont think he was backing out. They said the damage was to the front of the car.
My guess is..big fight in the home. She gets physical, scratches him..he goes to leave, she goes for the club..he is pulling out..she is chasing the car, hitting it with the club..he is distracted, looking thru the rearview mirror..hits hydrant..bounces off and hits tree. He gets out..she whacks him in the mouth with the club (they claim he had bloody upper and lower lips)..and he is down for the count.
That sounds better to me, than he was going for milk and managed to just slam into two objects, while she was in the house. Why on earth would she have to smash a window to get him out of the car..if the airbags didnt even deploy?
He should have stayed in the car.
You object? Stop it? Mommy, make 'em stop! I only wish that Free Republic had such a critical mass of posters that we could make a difference in shaping public opinion. But this stuff is all over the internet so we're not spreading anything.
Interesting. This story is parallel to the story of Solomon and the two women who both claimed to be mother of the same baby. In that case the mother showed her true love of the baby by saving its life even if it meant giving up the baby.
But some informal research indicates that in this other situation many if not most women would opt having the lover killed rather than allowing another woman to have him.
Genetically speaking, both of these strategies make sense. But I think that many men would find feminine nature in the later case to be indicative of why women can not always be trusted with questions of morality or justice.
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