Tiger Woods' private life with wife went public in Ireland, too

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Tiger Woods with his wife Elin Nordegren in happier days

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• Flashback / Irish magazine The Dubliner apologizes to Tiger Woods' wife / Click here

Tiger Woods has always been a private figure, achieving fame through his golfing prowess and not his personal life. That may all have changed this week — just as it did in Ireland a few years ago.

Driving away from his house at 2.25 a.m. Friday morning, Woods apparently bashed his car against a fire hydrant in the driveway.

The Dubliner magazine's apology to Tiger Woods' wife; click link at top of IrishCentral story to read entire statement.

The web is now alive with rumors there was no crash. It is alleged that Woods and his wife, Swedish former model Elin Nordegren, had argued about his involvement with another woman. Nordegren hit Woods’ car with a golf club following the row.

The National Enquirer put it subtly: “World exclusive: woman at center of Tiger Woods cheating scandal exposed!!” It goes on to say that since June, Woods has been having an affair with a 34-year-old New Yorker named Rachel Uchitel.

The magazine may not be the world’s most-reliable news source, but it has been right about cheating husbands before, as John Edwards knows.

The last time scandal attached itself to Woods he was in Ireland. Then, too, it was in relation to his wife, and Woods came quickly to Elin’s defense. During the 2006 Ryder Cup, which Ireland hosted, The Dubliner magazine published an article titled “Ryder Cup filth for Ireland.” The piece complained that the golfers’ wives could not keep their clothes on in public. It was accompanied by photos of Nordegren, apparently topless.

But the pictures were fake and Woods later sued The Dubliner. The couple received $183,350 in compensation (which they gave to charity) and an apology, when Trevor White, publisher of The Dubliner, admitted the article “was cheap, tasteless, and deliberately offensive. It was also completely untrue.”

The new scandal may not go away as easily. Daniel Saylor, the police chief who arrived on the scene at Woods’ mansion in a gated community in Florida, told reporters that Woods had cuts on his upper and lower lips and blood in his mouth, according to the Huffington Post. His wife was “frantic, upset," Saylor said in the Huffington Post report. "It was her husband laying on the ground.” Officers treated Woods for 10 minutes before an ambulance arrived.

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