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Trooper: Tiger not drunk, had ‘minor injuries’

Recordings from Florida officers contradict report that Elin damaged teeth

Image: Tiger Woods Reuters file
Tiger Woods has taken an indefinite leave from golf after he admitted to marital infidelity.

ORLANDO, Fla. - New audio recordings are being released from the Tiger Woods car crash investigation.

In one recording released Thursday, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Josh Evans tells a dispatcher that the golfer wasn’t doing anything he shouldn’t have been doing. The trooper also says that Woods had only minor injuries.

The patrol has already closed its investigation into the Nov. 27 crash outside the central Florida mansion of Woods and his wife, Elin. Woods was charged with careless driving and fined $164.

Woods has taken an indefinite leave from golf after he admitted marital infidelity.

Ex-NHL coach: Tiger lost teeth
Former NHL coach Pat Burns said that Woods lost some teeth after his wife hit him in the face with a 9-iron, according to an account Burns gave to Montreal radio station CKAC.

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 explains (Woods') absence when the police wanted to meet him the following days," Burns said.

Woods has not been seen in public since the crash.

Burns' version of the story is consistent with those that have been attributed to Woods' neighbors and others who claim to know what happened that night, the Star notes.

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