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Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:41 pm EST
Pat Burns gets to the bottom of this Tiger Woods mess
By Sean Leahy
Before he became a Stanley Cup-winning head coach, Pat Burns was a police officer and now that he's living in Florida, he's made some friends in the Florida Highway Patrol. So when Tiger Woods crashed his SUV into a tree in late-November, Burns reached out to his local police buddies to get the inside scoop on what really went down that night.
Burns revealed what he found out during an interview with CKAC Sports radio in Montreal this week. According to the former NHL coach, Woods was knocked in the face with a golf club by his wife, Elin Nordegren, and was left with a deep cut on his cheek and down two front teeth after she confronted him after reading text messages from one of the golfer's numerous mistresses.
From the Phoenix New Times:
From the Ottawa Sun:
UPDATE: Apparently Burns' story is similar to a popular email that's been going around the past few weeks. Thanks to Puck Daddy readers Court and Jim as well as several commenters for pointing this out.
Related: Rumors, scuttlebutt, innuendo
Pat Burns gets to the bottom of this Tiger Woods mess
By Sean Leahy
Before he became a Stanley Cup-winning head coach, Pat Burns was a police officer and now that he's living in Florida, he's made some friends in the Florida Highway Patrol. So when Tiger Woods crashed his SUV into a tree in late-November, Burns reached out to his local police buddies to get the inside scoop on what really went down that night. Burns revealed what he found out during an interview with CKAC Sports radio in Montreal this week. According to the former NHL coach, Woods was knocked in the face with a golf club by his wife, Elin Nordegren, and was left with a deep cut on his cheek and down two front teeth after she confronted him after reading text messages from one of the golfer's numerous mistresses.
From the Phoenix New Times:
"He kept saying there was nothing there. He went to watch television ... then suddenly, bang! A nine-iron in the face!" Burns tells the station. "He left the house running without shoes. Elin followed him with the club. He left in his Escalade. She followed him and broke two or three windows. That's why he hit the tree."
Burns went on to say that the current Vanity Fair cover boy flew to Phoenix for emergency dental and plastic surgery, making him unavailable to local police after the news broke.From the Ottawa Sun:
"They took him to hospital in Orlando. Elin was in the ambulance with him and called his agent. He suggested that they meet at the hospital. Once there, the doctors said he needed plastic surgery to repair the broken teeth, but only one institution could do it, in Phoenix (Arizona). The agent warmed up the jet to he could leave for Phoenix where they could fix his face. This explains (Woods') absence when the police wanted to meet him the following days," Pat Burns told the station.
With that kind of detective work and his police sources, Burns could grab a post-hockey job with the upcoming TMZ Sports or at least with Scooby-Doo and the gang. UPDATE: Apparently Burns' story is similar to a popular email that's been going around the past few weeks. Thanks to Puck Daddy readers Court and Jim as well as several commenters for pointing this out.
Related: Rumors, scuttlebutt, innuendo