This video frame grab, provided by Hollywood TV, shows Rachel Uchitel at Los Angeles International Airport Nov. 29, 2009. Ms. Uchitel denied tabloid reports she had had a "jet-set liaison" with Tiger Woods.— REUTERS/Courtesy of Hollywood.TV/Handout
Nov. 25 The National Enquirer publishes a story alleging Tiger Woods was having an affair with New York nightclub hostess Rachel Uchitel and that the pair were recently together in Australia where Mr. Woods competed in the Australian Masters. Ms. Uchitel later denies the report.
— 2009 Florida Highway Patrol
Nov. 27 Tiger Woods crashes his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a neighbour's tree at 2:25 a.m. just metres away from his Florida mansion. Mr. Woods's wife, Elin Nordegren, uses a golf club to smash one of the SUV's back windows, later telling police she was trying to get her unconscious husband out of the vehicle. Mr. Woods is briefly hospitalized.
Nov. 27 Police try to interview Mr. Woods about the crash. However, Ms. Nordegren asks them to return the next day because her husband is sleeping.
Nov. 28 Police again plan to interview Mr. Woods, but his agent tells them the golfer and his wife are unavailable until the following day.
Nov. 29 An hour after Mr. Woods's lawyer turns police away from the golfer's home, Mr. Woods releases a statement on his website, taking blame for an “embarrassing” crash, which left him with cuts and bruises. “This situation is my fault, and it's obviously embarrassing to my family and me,” he says. “I'm human and I'm not perfect. I will certainly make sure this doesn't happen again.” The statement asks that it remain “a private matter”.
The Florida Highway Patrol releases a 911 call made by Mr. Woods's neighbour after the crash.
Nov. 30 Citing his injuries, Mr. Woods withdraws from his annual golf tournament, the Chevron World Challenge. “I am certain it will be an outstanding event and I'm very sorry that I can't be there,” he says in a statement on his website. He says he will not compete again until next year.
Dec. 1 The Florida Highway Patrol announces that Mr. Woods faces a $164 (U.S.) fine for careless driving and four demerit points against his driver's licence. He will not face criminal charges.
A lawyer for Linda Adams, the neighbour who called 911 after Mr. Woods's crash, says Mr. Woods did not appear to be under the influence and showed no signs of having been in a fight in the minutes after the crash. “None of his injuries looked like he was beat up by his wife,” said attorney Bill Sharpe.
Jaimee Grubbs is shown in a scene from the VH1 cable channel reality series "Tool Academy" in this undated publicity photograph from a season of the series which was telecast in 2008. US Weekly magazine is reporting an alleged affair between golfer Tiger Woods and Ms. Grubbs.— REUTERS/Copyright VH1/Handout
Dec. 2 Us Weekly magazine publishes a cover story saying a Los Angeles cocktail waitress claims she had a 31-month long affair with Mr. Woods. The woman, Jaimee Grubbs, says she has proof in 300 text messages and claims she first met Mr. Woods the week after the 2007 Masters, two months before Ms. Nordegren gave birth to their first child.
The magazine also releases what it says is a voice mail, which was provided by Ms. Grubbs, that Mr. Woods left on her phone on Nov. 24 asking her to remove her name from her phone message.
Tiger Woods says he has let his family down and regrets “those transgressions with all of my heart.” In a statement Wednesday on his website, Woods says he has not been “true to my values and the behavior my family deserves.”
