The domestic drama engulfing Tiger Woodstook a new twist today as reports said a woman had been taken to hospital from the golfer’s home in Florida before dawn with a car similar to his black four-wheel drive following the ambulance.
In the swirl of media coverage that has surrounded the world’s No 1 golfer since news of his multiple marital infidelities emerged, conflicting reports made a definitive account of what happened impossible to establish at this stage.
What is known is that emergency services were called to the exclusive neighbourhood of Isleworth, a suburb of Orlando, where Woods lives with his wife, Elin Nordegren, at 2.36am.
“We responded to a medical call. A patient was transported,” Orange County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Genevieve Latham told Reuters.
Some reports, and a video taken at the hospital, suggested a blonde woman was stretchered from the ambulance into the building and that the four-wheel drive behind the ambulance was driven by another blonde woman.
Nordegren’s sister and mother are believed to have been staying in the Woods home since the crisis began.
The nightmare for Woods started on 27 November, when he had a mysterious car crash outside his home in the early hours, hitting a tree and fire hydrant.
A few days earlier, a tabloid had reported an extra-marital affair between the golfer and a nightclub hostess.
Since then, up to 10 different women have come forward to tell the media of Woods’s alleged infidelities with them.
Early suggestions that the injuries he suffered in the car crash were caused by a marital row have been fiercely disputed by him, but he did issue a statement of apology to his family and friends.
Earlier today, before reports of the hospital visit emerged, papers reported that Nordegren had decided to leave the marital home and separate from Woods.
Swedish papers reported that she had bought a country home in Sweden where she intended to spend some time.
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