Tiger Woods was injured early
Friday when he lost control of his SUV outside his
Florida mansion, and a local police chief said Woods'
wife used a golf club to smash out the back window
to help get him out.
The world's No. 1 golfer was treated and released
from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said.
The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods' vehicle hit
a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard after
he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m.
Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor told The Associated
Press that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star
lying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering
over him.
"She was frantic, upset," Saylor said in a briefing
Friday night. "It was her husband laying on the ground."
She told officers she was in the house when she heard
the accident and "came out and broke the back window
with a golf club," he said, adding that the front-door
windows were not broken and that "the door was probably
locked."
"She supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground,"
he said. "He was in and out of consciousness when
my guys got there."
Saylor said Woods had lacerations to his upper and
lower lips, and blood in his mouth; officers treated
Woods for about 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived.
Woods was conscious enough to speak, he said.
"He was mumbling, but didn't say anything coherent,"
Saylor said.
The crash knocked Woods unconscious for about six
minutes, according to a call report compiled by the
Orange County Sheriff's Office, the Orlando Sentinel
reported.
In a telephone interview, Woods' father-in-law, radio
journalist Thomas Nordegren, told The Associated Press
in Stockholm that he would not discuss the accident.
"I haven't spoken to her in the last few ... " Nordegren
said about his daughter, Elin, before cutting himself
off. "I don't want to go into that."
Woods' mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg also refused
to address the matter.
"She
doesn't want to comment on private issues like these,"
Holmberg's spokeswoman Eva Malmborg said.
The Florida Highway Patrol said alcohol was not involved,
although the accident remains under investigation
and charges could be filed.
Woods was alone
in his 2009 Cadillac when he pulled out of his driveway
from his mansion at Isleworth, a gated waterfront
community just outside Orlando, the patrol said.
Woods' injuries were described as serious in the patrol's
report, though his spokesman, Glenn Greenspan, issued
a statement that Woods was treated and released.
1. Tiger's official Web site characterized the incident
as a "minor car accident," yet his wife told police
she needed to smash out the back window of his 2009
Escalade in order to rescue him. Does that sound like
a "minor car accident"?
2. Why did the Florida Highway Patrol wait 11 1/2
hours to report anything about the incident to the
public? The report came, perhaps not coincidentally,
after Woods had received treatment and exited an Orlando
hospital.
3. If the National Enquirer story of Woods' alleged
affair with Rachel Uchitel is untrue, which Uchitel
maintains, why did TMZ.com report that Woods' wife
scratched his face and smashed his SUV in an apparent
fit of rage over the Enquirer's report?
A new scandal! Allegedly, Tiger
Woods is cheating on his wife Elin Nordegren.
This report originated from The National Enquirer,
and according to Media Take Out, Tiger Woods is having
an affair with a woman named Rachel Uchitel (Picture
below).
"MediaTakeOut.com just got its hands on this week's
National Enquirer and it is EXPLOSIVE!!! According
to them, Tiger Woods is CHEATING with the below woman,
named Rachel Uchitel."
According to another source, Woods and Nordegren's
marriage is over and they are heading for divorce.
The internet
is buzzing today with the rumors of Tiger Woods alleged
affair, but the story is completely unconfirmed, and
the Enquirer is definitely not the most trustworthy
source.
This is not the first time Uchitel’s name has come
up regarding affairs with famous married men. Just
last month, rumors circulated that she was making
sexy time with “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” actor David
Boreanaz — while his wife was pregnant.
Neither rumor has been substantiated, however, the
alleged Tiger Woods affair exploded after gossip blog
Media Takeout claimed they had gotten their hands
on the latest National Enquirer. According to them,
“Tiger Woods is CHEATING with the below woman, named
Rachel Uchitel.”
Ironically, in a 2008 interview Rachel said, “Although
I’ve been romantically linked to a famous baseball
player, a Broadway star, a musician, and various film
and television actors, I will never kiss and tell!”
Uchitel, 33, once worked as a television producer
for Bloomberg, and has managed the VIP action at some
of the most successful clubs in New York, Las Vegas
and the Hamptons.
