Ex-NHL coach says police told him Elin knocked out two of Tiger's teeth
Jan 6, 2010, 10:00 AM EDT
Leave it to an ex-NHL coach living in Florida to get to the bottom of what transpired at Tiger Woods’ home on Thanksgiving night. You may discount this, but I find it one of the more believable accounts of what led to Mr. Woods’ Wild Ride; Pat Burns, during a radio interview with Toronto’s CKAC on Tuesday, said that a friend with the Florida Highway Patrol told him Elin Nordegren knocked out two of Woods’ teeth with a golf club after confronting him about text messages to alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel. The full story is pretty crowd pleasing, so let’s listen in.
From the Toronto Star, via the Sporting News:
Burns said a friend of his in the Florida highway patrol was among those who visited Woods’ home the night of the crash. Burns worked with the police in Florida before coaching hockey, according to the newspaper.
After eating dinner that night, Woods was watching football while sending and receiving text messages from Rachel Uchitel, one of his alleged mistresses, Burns said. Later, Woods left his phone on the coffee table when he went to play poker at a friend’s house. But Uchitel continued to text.
Here is Burns’ account of what happened next:
“His wife (Elin Nordegren) saw the message. When he returned, around 11:30 p.m. or midnight, she waited at the door. She asked what it was, these messages, and who was this woman.
“He kept saying there was nothing there. He went to watch television. … then suddenly, bang! A nine-iron in the face!
“He left the house running without shoes. Elin followed him with the club. He left in his Escalade. She followed him and broke two or three windows. That’s why he hit the tree.”
Doctors in the Orlando hospital Woods was taken to said he needed plastic surgery to repair the broken teeth, and that the facility best able to perform the operation was in Phoenix, Arizona. Woods was then transported to Phoenix.
This matches the account given by octogenarian sportswriter Furman Bisher on his blog two weeks ago, except that Bisher wrote that Elin also connected with his cheek bone. When police interviewed Woods on Dec. 1, they reported seeing him only with a “fat lip.”
There’s no earthly reason that Burns — who won more than 500 games with four NHL teams over a 14-year career — would come up with this out of the blue. If so it’s the biggest non-sequiter in sports.
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Is Tiger Woods’ absence attributable to broken teeth? [Sporting News]
Ex-Leafs coach Burns says Tiger Woods had teeth knocked out [Toronto Star]
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- rikitikitavi - Jan 7, 2010 at 7:34 PM
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Julie,
Please read my Award-Winning post #246.
yours Forever, Timmy
(the little crippled boy), from post #282.
Is post #246 a Great Post, or what?!?
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- Sherl - Jan 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM
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My MY with this comment, I am thinking that you are still under the thinking that you are above women and have a mommy problem. Shame on you. I don’t think it is okay for either male or female to hit or cheat on each other.
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- Quentin - Jan 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM
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Domestic violence charges are not being filed because Tiger would have to file them and he chose not to.
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- Sylvia - Jan 14, 2010 at 4:48 PM
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- Henry H. - Jan 19, 2010 at 2:58 PM
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Not saying what tiger is accused of is ok..however if this report is true why is she not being held on charges of domestic abuse, or even aggravated assult. The law itself over shadows if Tiger wants to press charges. If this is true then she will be charged,if thats what the stature is in that county.
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- basedrum777 - Jan 19, 2010 at 9:02 PM
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I hope she gets nothing from him for attacking him. If the roles were reversed and he so much as breathed on her the wrong way he’d be in Ohpaloka county jail to this day. This whole issue is a joke.
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- Magumba - Jan 20, 2010 at 5:07 PM
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Seriously: Had Elin’s nine iron shot been an inch or two off (temple, orbital, bridge of the nose, throat), and we’d all be reading another Steve McNair story here. Why is this not attempted murder? Premeditated yet. After all she did have all that time while he was out playing poker to mull over what she was going to do. Adultery is jacked-up, but it ain’t a crime. What Elin did is definitely criminal.
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- amypalazola - Jan 26, 2010 at 12:47 PM
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Woody Allen didn’t marry his daughter, he married his girlfriend’s daughter. Facts, guys, no matter what we think of the situation, are important.
Also, I have never heard that Nicole Simpson was using cocaine.
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- pyrdad - Jan 28, 2010 at 11:58 AM
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He was pretty foolish with his contacts. Elin should have just taken a driver, put it right in the fairway, crushed the eggs and then burned the nest. That would have stopped the games all around.
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- Montana Burrrrrrrrrrr - Jan 29, 2010 at 8:05 PM
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I agree with what your saying but>>>>>>>>
When are people going to start putting a professional life and a personal life in separate categories???????? Take Clinton for an example. Why should we care what he did under his desk or anywhere else as long as he did his job, and he did. Look at the past on how many presidents cheated and how many professional sports people also cheated. Did that make them less the political or sports person that they were to begin with? No. Same person with same talents and or brains. What people do in their personal lives should stay that way, personal, between them.
I’m not sticking up for him or belittling her for what she did. I don’t blame her at all. But it should have stayed between them. Not any of us. Don’t throw rocks if you live in a glass house!!!
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- why not - Feb 3, 2010 at 9:16 PM
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He deserved it
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- Rodney - Feb 26, 2010 at 8:36 AM
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I have never seen so many hypocrites in my life.. Mostly women.. You fight for domestic violence rights, but you exclude yourself from prosecution.
At this point, Elin only knew of ONE AFFAIR.. JUST ONE.. Please tell me if anyone here truly believes that after discovering ONE AFFAIR, you truly believe that he should die.. If she hit him in the head with a golf club, her intent and purpose was murder.. do not get it twisted…
Allot has transpired since then and luckily the two where not together when it did, and who knows, half the shit is probably lies.. But what we do know is that he did cheat with at least one girl and nothing else can be proven without reasonable doubt.. My take on it is that he never should have married her. How can you be worth billions and marry a nanny.. I don’t care how pretty she is.. what else can she do but be pretty and two be honest with you, she is really NOT that hot.. Where is the stimulation other than visual, and as we have seen, the other women are MUCH more visually stimulating than she..
Elin is coldhearted and tiger needs to cut his losses, settle for about a 100 million and get rid of her ASAP, before he forgets to put the toilet seat down and finds himself with no johnson…
Thank you
