C’mon Tiger, again? How many cars can you roll before action is taken?

March 28, 2026 — 10:53am

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When it comes to Tiger Woods latest drive heading way out into the rough, we will, of course, let the law take its course and draw its conclusions.

We can leave it to the police and lawyers to get to the bottom of the crash near his Florida home making headlines around the world, when it comes to speed, angles, impacts and whether or not any flecks of drugs were in his blood, or indeed vice versa.

There are, however, a couple of things we can safely say, meantime, starting with: Jesus wept, Tiger, AGAIN?

How many times is this now? Four times, yes?

The first was in 2009, on a night when his wife Elin Nordegren discovered the golfer had not just been having an an affair, but actually committing adultery on an industrial scale – whereupon she reached for the five-iron and pursued him with some vigour. Woods jumped in his car outside his family compound in the Floridian gated community and hit the accelerator. Fast, but not fast enough.

The SUV jumped a curb, crossed a grass median, struck a fire hydrant, and then slammed into a neighbour’s tree. Woods had no seatbelt on, but was mercifully not badly hurt, beyond being briefly unconscious. When he came to, his wife was taking the golf club to the rear windows, either to help get him out or vent some more rage, it was never clear.

The legal penalty was minimal, merely cited for careless driving by the Florida Highway Patrol, losing four points off his licence and paying a $164 fine. Oddly, despite his wife saying he had “consumed alcohol earlier in the day,” and the circumstances of the crash, he was not breath-tested, nor obliged to give a urine sample. There was suspicion at the time........

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