I feel somewhat comfortable still with my skepticism though, as it would appear from this report that while he may well have had an affair, it's not with the woman everyone (read: TMZ and the Enquirer) were SAYING he had an affair with.

The next time there's a story suggesting some husband somewhere had a fight with his wife, caused lacerations on her face then chased her as she tried to drive away, smashing the windows of her car, forcing her off the road, and causing her to crash and lose consciousness, all because he suspected she was having an affair, try responding to the story with a "Right on dude!".

I bet your wife reacts differently to your response.

I guess you gotta cover whatever your assignment editor tells you to cover…but Jesus, couldn't they find some intern to do this? Or, even better, find something interesting or newsworthy to investigate?

Something like Bubble Boy analysis or the Couple that Crashed the White House Dinner. You know, real important stuff. Alanis Morrissette smoked some pot once! Get on it, Cosh.

She wouldn't be the first wife to lay a licking on a cheating husband.

She wouldn't be the first wife to lay a licking on a cheating husband.

Proper comfort food. Doesn't get much better than that.

Again, it may all be true, I'm just not totally convinced yet.

Whew, thanks for clearing all of that up, Dot. I was really worried we weren't going to come up with a plausible explanation that didn't end in divorce or jail time or something.

The evidence seemed obvious to me. The SUV had both back windows smashed. I fail to see why you would break a second window to get into the car.

It's been essentially confirmed, probably by a leak from someone who is in the know.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/11/28/tiger-woods-elin-no…

You strike me as someone incredibly skeptical. It sounds like you'd need to be in the room to believe it. We have a friend popping up in the same hotel at the same time on the other side of the world, and going to the same floor, and being seen with him, a woman who has been spending time with him elsehwere. I can assure you there is not a wife on earth who would consider this behaviour acceptable.

That said, there's technically actually less evidence that she attacked him and chased him with a golf club than there is that he had an affair.

As for that evidence, fine, she's been seen with Tiger Woods in public. Shocking. I'm impressed that someone remembers that she took the elevator to the VIP floor in Melbourne but A) is it possible she had a room on that floor too, and B) C'mon. Someone remembers which floor she got off of at a hotel? That's evidence of an affair? I don't buy the first part of that anyway, but as for the second, the answer is clearly no. As for her friend's assertion, I'm not sure if that story came before or after the cheque for $25,000 from the National Enquirer cleared, but at the very least the payment makes one wonder, no?

Maybe he did have an affair with her mind you. I'm just not convinced of that fact yet by the evidence I've heard so far from the Enquirer and TMZ.

Thanks, that was helpful!

Or to put it another way, celebrity status or no, would police take Elin's word for it if she was the man and Tiger was the woman? If everyone's suspicions are true (and maybe they aren't) then I have to say, if the (gender) roles were reversed, Tiger might well already be in jail for assault.

Frank jumped out of the backseat into Tigers' wife's arms, Tiger awoke, daed, and the english hackers went off to have chip butties and a pint to celebrate, with a side of onion rings – (strangely with extra thick batter, go figure – scandalous!).

No spouse EVER deserves to be beaten by their partner. Man or woman. Ever.

Not saying I don't understand the desire, because believe me, I do. So if an SUV (or fiist through drywall) has to take it instead, so be it.

As for going medieval on his face with a golf club, OUCH! It could be that he did get hit hard though, although it's hard to believe she would actually hit him with a club. But somehow he was very dazed, even though the airbags did not deploy which means it was probably not the car that dazed him so much.

As for the evidence, there is lots and lots, including the fact the mistress was seen with him in Australia by several witnesses, and also was seen with him in NY and Las Vegas. She was also seen taking the elevator to the VIP floor in the Australian hotel. Perhaps you would need to be in the same room in order to believe it.

My guess: He pulled a Phil Hartman. Told his wife he had been cheating and was going to leave her, then goes to sleep. He wakes up and she 's getting medieval on his face with a golf club. He runs downstairs, grabs the car keys to the SUV he's never driven. Puts 'er in gear, and plows into the tree.

She's also offered to take a polygraph test to prove she's never had an affair with him, and claims a "friend" (I'm thinking now perhaps an "acquaintance") made up the story when the National Enquirer gave her $25,000.

She could obviously be lying, and sometimes the National Enquirer and TMZ are actually right about stuff, but even if I think Elin may have actually gone after Tiger because she THOUGHT he was having an affair, I see no convincing evidence (yet) that he actually did.

Also, on a superficial level, I've seen Elin, and I've seen the woman Tiger is accused of having an affair with, and if it's true, Tiger's just not very bright.

No.