Leave The Man Alone!

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 8:16am

Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Tiger Woods has canceled plans to attend his own golf tournament in southern California because of injuries he suffered near his Florida home early Friday, the pro golfer said in a statement Monday.


"I am extremely disappointed that I will not be at my tournament this week," Woods said of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, California. "I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I'm very sorry that I can't be there."


He also canceled a Tuesday news conference for the start of the tournament, which helps raise money for Tiger Woods Foundation programs.


Woods suffered minor injuries in a vehicle accident early Friday in his luxury neighborhood near Orlando, Florida, according to a police accident report.


State police in Florida said Monday an investigation of the single-vehicle crash "is ongoing and charges are pending."


The incident has ended Woods' golf appearances until next season, according to a statement posted on his Web site.


"Woods will not participate in any other tournaments in 2009 and will return to action next year," the statement said.


The PGA Tour has ended for the year, but the first tournament of the 2010 season is just five weeks away. At least one other charity event is scheduled, but it is not clear if Woods had planned to attend.





 
The Chevron World Challenge will go on despite the absence of its host, said Greg McLaughlin, president of Woods' foundation.

"We support Tiger's decision and are confident the strong field and excellent course will provide an exciting week of competition at the Chevron World Challenge," McLaughlin said.


In a statement issued Sunday afternoon on his Web site, Woods offered no details of his wreck except to say he had cuts and bruises and was "pretty sore."


"This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me," he said. "I'm human and I'm not perfect. I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again."


According to a police report, Woods pulled out of his driveway about 2:25 a.m. Friday in a 2009 Cadillac SUV and struck a fire hydrant, then a tree.


Authorities have said they don't have details on why Woods was driving away from his home at such an early hour, but a police report said the wreck was not alcohol-related.


State troopers have unsuccessfully asked three times to question him about the wreck, police said. Woods canceled the third scheduled interview on Sunday, Florida Highway Patrol spokeswoman Sgt. Kim Montes told CNN.


"We have been informed by the Florida Highway Patrol that further discussion with them is both voluntary and optional," said Woods' agent Mark Steinberg, in a written statement. "Although Tiger realizes that there is a great deal of public curiosity, it has been conveyed to FHP that he simply has nothing more to add and wishes to protect the privacy of his family."


Under Florida law, Woods must show his license, registration and proof of insurance to police, but is not obligated to give a statement on the crash. His attorney Mark NeJame handed over the required documents to the troopers Sunday at Woods' home, Montes said.


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NeJame told CNN he stood by Woods' statement and had no further comment.


"If we're unable to meet with him, we'll move on with our investigation," Montes said. But she called the delays "very unusual, because it's such a minor accident."


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Last week, a story in the National Enquirer alleged that Woods has been seeing a New York nightclub hostess. The Associated Press contacted the woman and reported she denied having an affair with Woods.


The 33-year-old golf phenomenon has won the Masters tournament and the PGA tournament each four times, as well as three U.S. Open Championships.


Investigators had sought possible surveillance tapes of the wreck from neighbors, but none were found, she said.


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In his Sunday statement, Woods praised his wife Elin Nordegren, saying she "acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble." Nordegren told police she used a golf club to break out the rear window of the vehicle, then pulled Woods from the SUV after she heard the accident from inside their home.


"This is a private matter, and I want to keep it that way." "The only person responsible for the accident is me," he said.


Woods and his wife have two children, a 2-year-old and a baby born in February.


 


Holy Cow!!!! What is it with people these days that they feel its a God-given right to invade the privacy of others? Is Tiger Woods' car accident really any business of ours? All the speculating and assumptions and accusations are like stones being thrown at the man in an attempt to anger him into 'fessing up to something that will titillate us and be tomorrow's next great TMZ story.


I applaud him for keeping his private life private.  He ran his car into a tree in front of his house. Oooops. Right now it's between him and his insurance agent.  And that's the way it should stay.

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 10:00am

Oh, pul-eeze! He as much as admitted he was messing around. "I'm sorry. I"ll certainly make sure this doesn't happen again." What a car wreck? He can see the rest of his life he'll never be in a wreck again? If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it ain't no turkey!

His wife probably caught him and clawed his face. People who mess around on their spouses should be charged with attempted murder. Plus he's a damn fool to think some camera didn't pick up something. In this day and age there's a camera on every corner. Just ask John Edwards.

Hell hath no furry like a woman scorned!

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 11:16am

Is it an Ohio thing? I completely agree with you about this whole saga concerning Tiger. I believe she scratched him up big time while he was still in the house, then, when he attempted to leave, she took a golf club and bashed his windows in while it was still in the garage, or as he was pulling away. She had just read, or at least heard about, the Enquirer article and confronted him IMO. Listen, it's nobody's business what folks do in their personal lives.....I am 100% for that, but public figures like Tiger play by different rules than us common folk. When THEY get in situations like this one, where a coverup is definitely going on, then they're fair game to be scrutinized and criticized for doing so.


There is NO WAY I will believe that she jumped in a golf cart with a golf club in hand to go see what happened down the street. People just don't do that. It stinks. I understand his unwillingness to want to be seen right now, for fear his DW may get charged with a crime.....especially if it was brought on by his supposed infidelity. This is HIS decision to remain mum on what happened. So HE must pay the consequences for choosing to do that. I have no dog in this fight, but the truth needs to be told here.

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 11:37am

I live near a golf course/country club. There is a cart WITH clubs in it parked and ready to go in about every other



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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 12:05pm

I commend any woman, be they physically attractive, or maybe not so much, who get out in the work force and earn a living for themselves rather than sit at home collecting welfare, or sponging off someone else's hard work. This has nothing to do with the "other woman", if there, in fact, was one. It's all about Tiger's refusal to let his adoring masses know what happened that early morning. And please, I don't buy the golf cart and clubs story.....I simply do NOT.


In the words of Mark Kriegel, a sports writer, he said this today concerning all of the TV ads with young kids from all over the world saying......"I am Tiger Woods"


"Please, nobody's Tiger Woods. How many guys do you know can tell the cops to go to hell 3 days in a row?"


I hope you didn't take my comments to be pointed toward the party planner from New York. She has a job to do that puts her in contact with many powerful people, both men and women. Typically, a woman in that profession must have a beautiful face and figure or they will not be hired in the first place. So with that in mind, of course there will be occasional accusations made by jealous wives or g/f's toward them. It goes with the territory. Chippendale dancers who are happily married still must bear all the accusations and insinuations from jealous husbands, etc.

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 1:18pm

I have to agree.

It really isn't anybody's beeswax what goes on in his private life. As far as I know, the man did not break any laws.

I think it's pathetic and disgusting that the media is hounding for a story. We have a lot of important things going on in America....and Tiger Woods crashing his car into a tree in his driveway just isn't one of them.

I am particularly disgusted at all the people jumping to conclusions about what happened. Nobody knows a darn thing except Tiger and his wife....and apparently....they aren't talking.

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 1:44pm

Could it be we live in a country where the majority seems to revel in the misery of others?


You're right. It doesn't matter if it's a celebrity or the guy next door - a person's private life is their private life and unless we're invited in we should mind our own business.

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 2:14pm

It's so easy to simply blow this off then and accuse anyone who would even think that there could have been domestic violence involved and then swept under the rug as being too critical of Tiger or his wife? We seem to pick and choose who we will place under the microscope to see if a state or federal law has been broken.


I don't care to know if he had an affair or not. What I do care about is if there was, in fact, an argument in that house that escalated into an attack on one or both of the parties involved that could have accidently injured one of those two young children living there. Are we just willing to say "keep out of their private life" and then have to ask why more wasn't done in the early stages of this that could have prevented something really messy from happening later?


No need to be disgusted......we should all

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 2:59pm

***I am particularly disgusted at all the people jumping to conclusions about what happened. Nobody knows a darn thing except Tiger and his wife....and apparently....they aren't talking.****


For all we know, they are a couple, with a young child, who may have been up screaming with a painful ear infection, and Tiger was going to the 24 hour pharmacy, to get Ibuprofen, because a charge nurse FINALLY told them they could give acetomenophen and ibuprophen concurrently. The man was tired, his wife was tired, his baby was screaming in pain, and it all turned into a disaster. This being AMERICA, his child has a right to medical privacy, they have a right to personal privacy, and they don't need to go blabbing their parenting issues and childrens ailments to the public to have their parenting choices



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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 3:17pm

And this screaming baby scratched up his face and bloodied his lip.

The air bags did not go off. The windshield was in tact. The drivers side window was in tact. Where did the scratches come from? As someone who was messed around on, I can say that at one point, I took a baseball bat to my husbands car. After finding it parked at his ex wifes place at 2:00 AM. If He would have stuck his chicken face out side, I probably would have seen if I could have hit a home run with his head.

Every one is right. It's none of our business. But as Leno said last night if his name was Tyrone Woods, we'd see a completely different reaction from the police. I know, if I refused to talk to the police, they'd haul me away.

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Tue, 12-01-2009 - 3:43pm

I wish I could find the post I posted years ago called "My baby beat me up." I had a scratched up face and bloodied lip, from my less than one year old child. So, yes, it's entirely possible. At least mine happened at the library, in front of witnesses, so my partner couldn't be blamed for it. I haven't actually seen any pictures of his face since this incident ,so I can't have an opinion on wether his injuries were produced by a person or an accident. Again, it's all pure conjecture by people who simply want to believe the worst about people and bring them down to their level.


One can switched off the air bag feature in most newer vehichles. Do we know he was wearing his seatbelt? I've been in more than one, fairly low speed car accident WITH seatbelts on. I was still wacked around the car pretty good. Debris flew. In one, I was stopped and hit by someone else, and my head still smacked the door jam of the car and I ended up with a gnarly goose egg and the plastic on the door jam broke and cut me.



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