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IN GOOD TIMES: Woods with his wife Nordegren

Tiger Woods put off an interview with police for a second day on Saturday, deepening the mystery surrounding the late-night, one-car crash that left the global golf icon bloody and dazed.
Florida Highway Patrol troopers were on their way to interview Woods and his wife, former model Elin Nordegren of Sweden, on Saturday when they received a message that the couple weren’t available.
“The Florida Highway Patrol has received information that Tiger Woods and his wife were not available to be interviewed by state troopers, as we had previously scheduled,” FHP spokeswoman, Sergeant Kim Montes, said in an e-mail statement. “This announcement came from his agent.
“Troopers were asked to return tomorrow (November 29th).”
Meanwhile, FHP officers examined the scene where Woods crashed his Cadillac SUV near his $2mn home at 2:25 am on Friday, hitting a fire hydrant and then a tree. Authorities have said that alcohol wasn’t involved. Woods was briefly hospitalised and released, suffering cuts to both lips.
Montes said the FHP are investigating the incident as a traffic crash, and there is no evidence to suggest a crime occurred.
The celebrity news website TMZ.com reported that a dispute between the couple was at the center of the accident.
By the website’s account, Nordegren confronted her husband about reports that he was having an affair with a New York club hostess Rachel Uchitel. An initial FHP report that Woods was in “serious” condition sparked a wave of frantic media coverage, and a clutch of reporters were camped out Saturday near
Woods’s exclusive gated neighborhood in hopes of gleaning information.
The FHP, however, were trying to clamp down on speculation as to what their probe—which will include a review of the initial 911 emergency call—would find.
“Currently, there is no other information to be released,” Montes said.
In fact, Woods is not required by Florida law to speak with the FHP, but Montes said investigators “wanted to give him the opportunity to tell us what happened in the crash.”
Woods’s only public comment on the incident was in a brief statement posted on his website on Friday, confirming he was involved in a “minor” accident and was released from hospital “in good condition.”
Despite his high profile, the 14-time major champion has largely managed to keep his private life private.
He and his wife have been married for five years and have two children, daughter Sam Alexis, born in 2007, and son Charlie Axel, born in February.