Enraged over reports of her husband's philandering ways and set off by the discovery of an "incriminating" text message, Elin Nordegren smashed Tiger Woods in the face with a 9-iron on Thanksgiving Day and then chased a bleeding and woozy Woods as he fled from his Florida home, a prominent sportswriter relayed in a Boxing Day blog that caught the attention of celebrity gadfly Perez Hilton. From there, it went viral. Problem is, it likely wasn't true.
Furman Bisher, a retired sports columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who has covered every Kentucky Derby since 1950, posted on his blog, what he said was a "legitimate message" he received from a "trustworthy journalist" he has known for years.
The source told Bisher that Woods wasn't home when Florida State Troopers came to question him following the crash outside his home because he had already been whisked away to Phoenix, where he underwent reconstructive surgery to repair the damage to his face, which included a gash to the right side near the nose, a broken facial bone and damaged teeth.
According to Bisher's source, Tiger was kicking back and watching football after turkey dinner on that fateful day, texting his alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel about the National Enquirer story that trumpeted their alleged affair, when things began to unravel for the world's No. 1 golfer.
A friend of Woods invited him to play poker and he left for the game, leaving his cell phone behind, replete with a text message from Uchitel he neglected to delete, according to Bisher's source.
The story continued that when Woods returned about midnight, Nordegren confronted Woods and eventually blindsided him with a golf club, chasing him through the house, causing significant damage to the interior of their home, and then chased Tiger as he fled in the Escalade, smashing out the windows.
It was a good golf tale, but we all know how many of those are lies.
Internet hoax debunkers Snopes.com aren't sure what to believe as of the time of writing, claiming the information has been circulating on the internet since mid-December.
"At this point, with hard information lacking, we can only engage in conjecture," said Snopes staff recently, adding, "the first aspect of speculation is the account's purported origins: in true urban legend-like fashion, it's an anonymous account based on information supposedly obtained from someone who plays golf with an 'insider' who knows Tiger Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg (who presumably heard it from his client). A long chain of transmission doesn't necessarily invalidate the account, but we note that (as exemplified by the children's game of "telephone") as information becomes further removed from its original source and passes through more hands it generally becomes less reliable."
Snopes continues that, in their opinion the account is a mix of "truthiy, falsity, exaggeration and speculation."
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