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Photograph of security outside Tiger Woods' Windermere, Florida home by Gourav Mukherjee/AP
TMZ has some crazy details on what may have happened to number 1-ranked golfer Tiger Woods, who drove his SUV into a fire hydrant outside his Florida home early yesterday morning and suffered some facial lacerations. The gossip website says, "Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren -- according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident."
Tiger has yet to be formally interviewed by the Florida Highway Patrol -- that should happen this afternoon. But we're told Tiger had a conversation Friday -- with a non-law enforcement type -- detailing what went down before his Escalade hit a fire hydrant.We're told he said his wife had confronted him about reports that he was seeing another woman. The argument got heated and, according to our source, she scratched his face up. We're told it was then Woods beat a hasty retreat for his SUV -- but according to our source, Woods says his wife followed behind with a golf club. As Tiger drove away, she struck the vehicle several times with the club.
We're told Woods became "distracted," thought the vehicle was stopped, and looked to see what had happened. At that point the SUV hit the fire hydrant and then hit a tree.
Photograph of Woods, holding daughter Sam, and wife Elin Nordegren at a Stanford game last week by Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
According to the NY Times, the Windermere, FL police said that the police found Woods "lying in the street and his wife, Elin, with him." Police Chief Daniel Saylor said, "She was frantic, upset. It was her husband laying on the ground." Woods' wife told police she heard the accident from inside the house and "came out and broke the back window with a golf club." Additionally, Woods lost consciousness when he woke up from the accident, "He was mumbling, but didn't say anything coherent."
The National Enquirer claimed that Woods was seen with New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel. Uchitel told the News, through Facebook, "There is NO relationship with tiger these girls quoted in the story are not being truthful. I resent my name being slung thru the mud... I did not say those things to those 'sources' and im not friends with ashley simpson or whatever her name is."
Update: The Florida Highway Patrol say Woods and his wife were unavailable to be questioned today and that the couple asked them to return tomorrow. Also, the FHP say 911 tapes from the incident will be released tomorrow.
And TMZ says that while "The Windemere Police Department says Tiger's wife went outside, saw that her husband had struck a fire hydrant and a tree, and then went back inside the house for a golf club to use to try and extricate him from the vehicle. But we've learned Nordegren told a very different story to the Florida Highway Patrol, and it does not involve going back in the house for a club. Our sources will not allow us to be more specific. And we've learned there was no blood found on the steering wheel of Tiger's SUV -- putting into serious doubt that Tiger sustained his injuries from the crash."
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Why would Elin act so violently to tabloid rumors? I bet she actually wants a divorce so she can get half a billion from Woods. Woods was an interesting novelty to her at first; now she is bored and rather have a Scandinavian of her choice.
Yawn—another scandalous story about someone paid MILLIONS to hit a little ball into a cup with a stick. Tiger Woods ≠ NY
It looks like the ho is signaling that she wants out. I hope Tiger made the Swedish bimbo sign on the dotted line...
Do you think she would be that stupid? No way she would sign a pre-nup.
Are you kidding?
If this is true, then her hotness factor just went off the scale. It figures. She has a well-bred look about her. Very beautiful. Very crazy.
i actually more surprized that the world's richest athlete lives in such a models house... $2.4 million
modest
Tiger Woods' bad tip
Tiger has earned about $800 million throughout his career.
Waitstaff of the world, be warned: When Tiger Woods walks into your eatery, don't expect a gratuity after the meal is over. While he may have a golden grip on his golf clubs, he has a pretty firm grasp on his wallet, too. "Whenever Tiger was in Las Vegas, there was a woman who would hang out with his group, sort of as a local guide," says our source. "They would have a great time but Tiger never tips. Ever. She had to stop going out with him because it would cost her three or four hundred bucks every time they went out, since she had to keep tipping for him. Even though he paid the bill, people knew her, so [to not leave a gratuity] would reflect badly on her." Here's a tip for Tiger: Even 10 percent is better than nothing! —Roger Singer
Why did he have to go around marrying a scandinavian woman? Why didn't he marry a phillipino or black woman? He knows Elin doesn't share the same culture or lifestyle. She's just blonde and hot. Powerful minorities need to get over the notion that white = better (i.e. Sammy Sosa and his wife, ARod and Kate, etc...).
And I don't want to hear, "oh but deversification is beautiful!" Yeah, but I believe is beautiful when people of different race and color grow up in the same circumstances. For example, Tiger met Elin at Stanford, etc...
Pardon my ignorance, but I just believe Tiger would have been better off with a woman of his own culture.
Sammy Sosa's wife Sonia is dominican. In fact, they are both from the same village. .
Saying village is a racist connotation. If they were from the states you would have called it a town. I guess poor black people from the third world have villages.
You never been to the Dominican Republican. It is village not a town. Nothing racist just social. Stop playing the race card.
Actually, middle class and rich white people in the US have villages, too. Go anywhere outside of a major metropolitan area and you'll find lots of them. You can't use the terms "town" and "village" interchangeably. They have distinct, well-defined meanings in government.
Oh, yes, there's some deep sociology, race/ethnicity issues, self-loathing, negative orientialism and "africanism" from the west, etc. regarding all this. But probably a bit too much for the Gothamist!
Sorry, but after a good deal of thought on the subject I cannot, in good faith, pardon your ignorance.
Hot? In that picture, she looks more like frigid.
Beware of marrying any woman who insists on keeping her own name.
http://sportsclimax.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/tiger-woods-wife-elin.jpg
Damn, she is hot. Can't believe Tiger is hitting that.
Well,it seems like she's doing the hitting.
"Beware of marrying any woman who insists on keeping her own name."
Yeah! Or wants to work outside the home. Or vote. Beware!
Yeah, right. Just because someone wants to stay with the tradition across uncounted centuries and a myriad of cultures of a woman adopting a man's name when they get married, he must want women to stay barefoot and pregnant. It's just so backward for your kids to have to explain why your mother doesn't have the same surname as the rest of the family and why she's not a Mrs. Hey, there's an idea. Why should kids have to have the same family name as the father anyway, right? It's demeaning! They should have their own names!
Sorry. In the photo she looks like a stone cold bitch. And apparently, she chased Tiger down the driveway after assaulting him. Plus, he is a fucking awesome athlete. I side with Tiger.
"And I don't want to hear, "oh but deversification is beautiful!" Yeah, but I believe is beautiful when people of different race and color grow up in the same circumstances. For example, Tiger met Elin at Stanford, etc..."
"deversification"?? are you serious??
and how are you going to say that the problem is that they don't come from similar cultures, and then use their meeting at stanford as an example of a good way to go?
and how is that more beautiful, exactly? i really wanna hear this...
They didn't meet at Stanford. I beileve JLRodP meant that to be an example of what would have been a good circumstance to meet under. In fact, according to reports, Tiger was introduced to Elin in England by a Swedish pro golfer for whom she was working as an au pair. I think JLRodP wasn't referring to race, although he did bring it up clumsily. They're simply very different people. Scandinavian culture and attitudes are very different from American. I don't think I would be interested in a Swedish woman any more than I would be interested in a teenager or a twentysomething simply because we'd have nothing in common. It's not wrong to suspect that Elin was more or less a trophy wife for Tiger.
Thanks for acknowledging your ignorance. Here's further proof: Tiger Woods's mother is Thai, not Filipino. He is also of African, Chinese, Native American, and Dutch descent.
I'm so glad there are racists like you around to keep segregation alive and well.
And in non-android news...
That is a cruel and accurate reference to those that aren't.
Ms. Woods inflicted facial lacertations on Tiger Woods and then went after him with a golf club when he tried to beat a hasty retreat? Seems clear she ain't gonna tolerate no wayward hubby.
There is more than one tiger in the Woods household.
Word to the wise.. in case of an accidental accident while traveling at high speed leaving your drive way. If involved in same, don't have your wife smash out your rear window being the only reasonable means of extricating your semi-comatose husband with injuries suffered by backing out the driveway.
I guess Mr. Woods is going to get a few less endorsements in the future.
The only other question I might have is, did she use a sandwich or a driver?
Tiger. You were a pure representative of being a half and half and a great golfer, but if the truth comes out. You will be the next Fuzzy Zoeller. Enjoy your greens while you can.
And by the way your house looks like shit for a guy that makes the kind of money you do.
Hope Tiger Woods is smart enough that he signed a prenup.
He was probably smart enough not to bring it up. Nothing kills the mood faster for a gold digger than a prenup. If he wanted to keep taping that, he knew to keep his mouth shut.
She knew about the pre-nup before she even met him. His lawyers and financial people had more to say about it than either Elin or Tiger. Too many people dependent on Tiger's well being to let that happen. The pre-nup rewards for the bride can be negotiated up in $ and down in the amount of time they have to remain married but no way one doesn't exist.
I hope we don't have another OJ in the making.
With less pulp this time...
It appears this is a match made in heaven.
Golfing and blondes. He got his golden blonde Swede and she got a rich golfer. The two deserve each other. What else can these two contribute to the enrichment of modern western culture?
OJ must be rolling on his jail cell laughing about this duo.
Holy shit! I just read that she used his favorite Ping putter to take out the rear window to "rescue" him. There goes his short game and his foreplay I guess.
LEAVE TIGER ALONE!!!
and why is this remotely relevant?
Athletes are as important for society as beauty queens.
My brain hurts from all of the dumb ass comments I just suffered through.
Let's see, he ran over a fire hydrant into a tree at such a low speed no airbags deployed. And his wife really thought anyone would believe that he needed to be rescued out the back window, rather than, say, opening the doors? Or breaking the rear door's window rather than the side?
Also, considering GM's OnStar is standard on a Cadillac Escalade (which includes automatic crash notification), the probability of getting locked in the car during a crash is approximately zero.
Hope Tiger had a prenup.
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH NEW YORK?
Tiger and his wife once visited the Statue of Liberty. Happy now?
Elin bought her first Gucci handbag and designer sun glasses on Canal Street, also a Rolex watch, therefore it's related.
Pfft! Tiger Woods is a world renown athlete. Plus, the alleged mistress is from NYC!
Plenty.
People in New York watch the news.
Happy?
I hate when people post that shit.
Don't like the story? Move on to the next thread.
Someone should start a site that focuses on the five boroughs of New York, because this site isn't it. Gothamist has become yet another tabloid site. A celebrity couple in Florida having a fight...a couple crashes a party in Washington, who cares?
Thanks for your comment—I'll keep it in mind when no one comments on stories we post about NYC/NY State civic issues.
Okay, so change the subtitle of Gothamist to "Gothamist: Stories from New York Sometimes, Also National Media Shitstorms Since Nobody Reads This Shit Anyway."
Taken into consideration!
over 98 percent of the stories are about NYC, why are you making such a big deal. All the networks including CNN have been reporting this news. It made the front page of the new york daily news and new york post.
can you tell the people of chicagoist that? it's so effing boring over there. further the controversial topics like "what are you wearing" which generated lots of hits, posts and drama was taken down.
what's the fun in reading a story about a city council meeting that no one comments on?
Go right ahead and start one. What's stopping you? If you're so certain it will be a smashing success, surely you'd want to be in on the ground floor, right? On the other hand, posting a complaint on a story you wish was gone only means you gave Gothamist a page view they wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
20 bux they post the links to said site all over this place
No one is forcing you to come to this site (but then again perhaps your mother is) so blow off jerk. And take the other Ahole rasputinsghost with you.
Someone woke up on the wrong side of bed.
i'm gonna name my kid "lion irons". he will be a golfer and his favorite shtick's gonna be 3-iron.
jen chung just wrecked your suv, NYer
*applause*
I can't get over that shitty McMansion. Did a supermarket executive give it to him in exchange for golf lessons?
a domestic spat that results in a face scratch? he's entitled to his privacy -- no one was hurt.
Ok here's the real story. Tiger Woods was in a hurry to get to Walmart because he really wanted to get one of those $78 Blu-ray players on. As he was backing out of the driveway he was shuffling through all of those Black Friday Ads and lost control and hit the tree and fire hydrant. The end!
TMZ, a reliable source. Yup.