Tiger Woods' Careless Driving

Golf Clubs Base / 12-02

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Tiger Woods will receive $164 fine for his careless driving.

 

"Despite the celebrity status of Mr. Woods, the Florida Highway Patrol has completed its investigation in the same professional manner it strives to complete each traffic investigation," Sgt. Kim Montes said.

 

For Tiger Woods, this must all be starting to look like a very bad lie.

 

Unable, after repeated attempts, to persuade Woods to meet with them, Florida's Highway Patrol issued the world's most successful golfer a $164 ticket for careless driving, and slapped four demerit points on his licence.

 

That, of course, is the least of it – a relatively minor penalty for the still unexplained single-car accident early Friday morning.
Far more of a problem – at least for Woods's image as a model of moral rectitude and clean living – are the new allegations of marital infidelity that are surfacing, the presumed catalyst of the spat that may have caused the accident.

 

A 24-year-old cocktail waitress, Jaimee Grubbs, told Us Weekly magazine that she and Woods carried on a 31-month affair that started in April, 2007. Grubbs claims to have slept with Woods on 20 occasions, and says she has saved photos and more than 300 private text messages from the golfer – some of them racy.

 

The magazine says it will post to its website Wednesday morning a voice-mail message that Woods allegedly left for Grubbs last week, "in which he suggests his wife might suspect he is having an affair."

 

Another Web-based celebrity news site, RadarOnline.com, claimed in a post that Grubbs may not be the last woman to have admired Woods's off-links hijinks. The website also posted what it says is a suggestive line from one of Woods's messages: "I will wear you out … when was the last time you got…?"

 

Meanwhile, Rachel Uchitel, 33, the New York city hostess initially linked to Woods, issued a strenuous denial of any impropriety, telling the New York Post that she had met him just twice and only in her professional capacity as director of VIP services at a New York nightclub.

 

"Tiger and I are not friends," Uchitel said, insisting that her visit to Australia last month – at the same time that Woods travelled there for a golf tournament – was only a coincidence.

 

"The whole thing is a lie. Like I could just walk up to the 35th floor and go to the presidential suite if Tiger Woods was staying there?" Uchitel said. "Like they would hand a girl a key at the front desk and let her go to Tiger's room. I didn't see him at all in Australia. I was just there with friends."

 

Bill Sharpe, an attorney for the neighbours that helped tend to Woods in the moments after the accident last week, said Tuesday that "the scratches on his face were consistent with someone who maybe was in a minor car accident and hit his head on the windshield. None of his injuries looked like he was beat up by his wife."

 

Apparently trying to flee his Windemere, Fla., mansion at 2:45 a.m., Woods, 33, managed to drive his 2009 Cadillac SUV into first a fire hydrant, then a tree. He was subsequently found lying on the road beside the car, suffering various facial cuts and abrasions.

 

The only rescue club in sight had been wielded by his wife of five years, former Swedish model Elin Nordegren, although it's still unclear whether she was using it in anger or support.

 

His injuries were severe enough to prompt Woods to cancel his appearance this week at the Chevron World Challenge golf tournament in California.

 

Woods himself, winner of 14 major championships, added nothing more to the statement he posted to his website two days ago. There, he accepted full responsibility saying, "this situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me. I'm human and I'm not perfect. I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again. This is a private matter and I want to keep it that way. Although I understand there is curiosity, the many false, unfounded and malicious rumours that are currently circulating … are irresponsible. The only person responsible for the accident is me. My wife, Elin, acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble. She was the first person to help me. Any other assertion is absolutely false."

 

But whether that will be sufficient to suppress the endless appetite for celebrity gossip and scandal – and to preserve Woods's millions of dollars in annual product endorsement and sponsorship revenue – remains to be seen.

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