Tiger Woods was injured in a car accident early Friday outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said his wife used a golf club to smash out the back window and help get the world's No. 1 golfer out of the SUV.

Woods was treated and released from a hospital in good condition, his spokesman said. The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods' vehicle hit a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor's yard as he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m.

Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor told The Associated Press that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star laying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him.

She told officers she was in the house when she heard the accident and "came out and broke the back window with a golf club."

Woods had lacerations to his upper and lower lips, and he had blood in his mouth, Saylor said.

The chief said Woods was in and out of consciousness when his two officers arrived. He said the officers held Woods to the ground and "when he woke up, he tried to get up and lost consciousness."

He said officers treated Woods for 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived.

The Florida Highway Patrol said Woods was alone in his 2009 Cadillac when he pulled out of his driveway from his mansion at Isleworth, a gated waterfront community just outside Orlando.

The patrol reported Woods' injuries as serious, although Woods spokesman Glenn Greenspan issued a statement that Woods was treated and released.

The patrol said alcohol was not involved, although the accident remains under investigation and charges could be filed.

Left unanswered was where Woods was going at that hour. Greenspan and agent Mark Steinberg said there would be no comment beyond the short statement of the accident on Woods' Web site.

Woods, coming off a two-week trip to China and Australia earlier this month, is host of the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif., which starts Thursday. He is scheduled to have his press conference Tuesday afternoon at Sherwood Country Club. Steinberg said he did not know if Woods planned to play next week.

The accident report was not released until nearly 12 hours after Woods was injured. Patrol spokesman Kim Montes said the accident did not meet the criteria of a serious crash, and the FHP only put out a press release because of inquiries from local media.

Montes said the patrol reports injuries as serious if they require more than minor medical attention.

Air bags in the SUV did not deploy.

Investigators still have not had a chance to speak to Woods, but when they do, "we will ask him everything," Montes said. "We just haven't had a chance to do so because he was being medically treated."

Montes said charges could be filed if there was a clear traffic violation, although troopers still do not know what caused Woods' SUV to hit the hydrant and the tree.

Woods' $2.4 million home is part of an exclusive subdivision near Orlando, a community set on an Arnold Palmer-designed golf course and a chain of small lakes. The neighborhood, which is fortified with high brick walls and has its own security force, is home to CEOs and other sports stars such as the NBA's Shaquille O'Neal.

The Orlando Sentinel reported that an orange and white barricade sat on top of a hole in front of Woods' home. About 10 feet away, there was a tire track near an oak tree in his neighbor's yard. The tree had a few scuff marks but was largely unscathed.

Woods, who has won 82 times around the world and 14 majors, attended the Stanford-Cal football game last Saturday, where he tossed the coin at the start of the game and was inducted into Stanford's sports Hall of Fame at halftime.

He won six times this year after missing eight months recovering from reconstructive surgery on his left knee. Even though he failed to win a major, Woods said he considered this a successful year because he did not know how his knee would respond.

I hope is OK, but we have to wait and see what happenned. How do you pull out of your driveway and hit a hydrant if alcohol or drugs were not involved? Unless he was really pissed off at Elin, which would help rxplain why he was leaving at that time. THere are "rumors" of him having some kind of affair. I hope not!!!

Here is the first of the dirt:
Tiger Woods did not suffer facial lacerations from a car accident. They were inflicted by his wife, Elin Nordegren -- according to a conversation Woods had Friday after the accident. We're told he said his wife had confronted him about reports that he was seeing another woman. The argument got heated and, according to our source, she scratched his face up. We're told it was then Woods beat a hasty retreat for his SUV -- but according to our source, Woods says his wife followed behind with a golf club. As Tiger drove away, she struck the vehicle several times with the club. We're told Woods became "distracted," thought the vehicle was stopped, and looked to see what had happened. At that point the SUV hit the fire hydrant and then hit a tree.

TMZ.com

There's a WHOLE lot more to this than we're getting - or will ever get. I think Tiger's people have the power to shut even the cops out of the real truth. If there's a clean explanation, we'll get it. If not - we'll get a "cleaned" version!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But, there's something afoot they don't want known or the full story would have been out long ago. Nuff said -
My 2 c
Chuck

Second cop talk put off today. What was wifey doing close behind him and just happened to have a golf club in her hands? Curious.

I'm liking the tmz story as being closer to the truth.

1) airbags did not deploy and I believe that they DID NOT malfunction. Speed was not fast enough to deploy them?
2) lacerations on the face seem hard to believe that it was from the accident were the airbags didn't even deploy. Maybe she scratched him up good. If she was buying into the rumors of an affair, then that would be the motive for her to scratch him up and chase him with a golf club.
3) He leaves the house in a rage before he does something stupid like hit her or something.
4)He gets into the SUV, probably did not buckle his seatbelts, backs out and starts to take off as she smashes the back window of the SUV. This takes away all of his attention to driving. But he stops and does not take the car our of drive. He opens the door and starts to get out and the car takes off into the fire hydrant.
5)He was going in and out of consciouness according to the police. This is the only thing that messes up my story I just laid out. That is why it was unlikely he had seatbelts on.

The longer they play hush hush, the worse it will always look. C'mon, act like real people. Rumors of an affair will cause one hell of an argument and could cause her to go off the deep end.

Tiger has ALWAYS had such a "clean" image......they may just want to make sure this is handled right, if there is more to the story. I hope not, but time will tell. If there is trouble in paradise, that could explain why it has taken so long for the new house to be completed........

I would think that the longer the talks with the cops are put off the more likely charges may be brought. Those cops can get a chip....especially if they sense they are being played.........

I'm going for TMZ's version, that they had a domestic dispute over his alleged affair, he left the house in anger, she smashed his windshield with the golf club in anger, and that caused him to hi9t the fire hydrant and tree.

No other mere mortal could get away with putting off the cops for two full days, he is probably trying to concoct a story with his wife that seems plausible.

PS: I have tickets to go to his tournament this week, not sure if I am going though, not because of this, have other conflicts. Anyway, wonder if he is going to make it to his own tournament.

All great questions Roy,,, !!!!

1. I dont think the air bags would be set off at that speed.
2. Lacerations to the face,,, ummmm, wife or steering wheel ?????
3. Affair,,, IMO we can put this one out.

The big question to me is,,, where was he headed at 2:30 am ????? They were fighting about something,,,, !!!!!!

Now,, will we ever find out what ???? NOPE !!!!!!

Tiger's got a great "public" reputation but maybe it's not what it seems. Plenty of his other famous sport's friends are "players". Michael Jordan, Tony Romo, Ben Roethlisberger, etc... They all mess around with other women. So maybe he's been "playing around" too? Maybe not. Maybe his wife is just a "high maintenance", jealous, hot, Nordic blond.