When Tiger Woods Talks, People Listen -- Then Tell TMZ

Accident, Affair, and Allegations: Tiger Woods Talking May Have Led to Tiger Woods' Silence

There could be a very good reason that Tiger Woods has retreated into his million-dollar Windermere home and clammed up, then subsequently turned Florida authorities away -- other than attempting to keep his wife from going to jail on charges of domestic abuse for his reportedly lacerated face. It seems that just about everyone he talked to -- or around -- after the accident immediately talked to TMZ. TMZ has covered the Tiger Woods accident and alleged affair stories as if their very existence depended on the next Tiger Woods story. And it seems that there have been no scarcity of cooperative "friends" of Tiger Woods and other unnamed sources that have been willing to disclose to TMZ anything and everything they know about Tiger Woods and his current situation.

Although the internet was running wild with speculation and jokes about Tiger Woods making an early morning "booty call," especially considering the recent National Enquirer story of Woods being involved with a New York socialite, the rumor mill really began grinding out speculative musings when a "non-law enforcement type" told TMZ that Woods informally disclosed to authorities that he and his wife were engaged in an altercation prior to his car accident. The source said Tiger Woods and wife, Elin Nordegren, argued over his alleged affair(s). This source also said that Woods claimed that his wife scratched him and, when he attempted to leave, followed him down the driveway and bashed out the window of his SUV with a golf club. This had "distracted" the golfer enough to run over a hydrant and into a tree.

TMZ said they had multiple law enforcement sources and hospital sources that claim that Elin Nordegren and Tiger Woods both admitted to arguing before the accident.