Tiger Woods was injured when he lost control of his SUV outside his Florida mansion, and a local police chief said Woods' wife used a golf club to smash out the back window to help get him out. The world's No. 1 golfer 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 after he pulled out of his driveway at 2:25 A.M. Friday. Windermere police chief Daniel Saylor said that officers found the 33-year-old PGA star lying in the street with his wife, Elin, hovering over him. “She was frantic, upset,” Saylor said in a briefing Friday night. “It was her husband laying on the ground.” 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,” he said, adding that the front-door windows were not broken and that “the door was probably locked.” “She supposedly got him out and laid him on the ground,” he said. “He was in and out of consciousness when my guys got there.” Saylor said Woods had lacerations to his upper and lower lips, and blood in his mouth; officers treated Woods for about 10 minutes until an ambulance arrived. Woods was conscious enough to speak, he said. “He was mumbling, but didn't say anything coherent,” Saylor said. The Florida Highway Patrol said alcohol was not involved, although the accident remains under investigation. Woods was alone in his 2009 Cadillac when he pulled out of his driveway from his mansion, a gated waterfront community just outside Orlando, the patrol said. Left unanswered was where Woods was going at that hour. The accident happened two days after the National Enquirer published a story alleging that Woods had been seeing a New York night club hostess, and that they recently were together in Melbourne, where Woods competed in the Australian Masters. The woman, Rachel Uchitel, denied having an affair with Woods. “I resent my reputation is getting completely blasted in the media,” she said during a telephone interview late Friday. Uchitel said she was in Melbourne two weeks ago with clients and never saw Woods the entire time she was there. Meanwhile, there are also plenty of questions, among them: Where was he going at 2:25 a.m. Friday? Why was there no word from the Woods' camp for nearly 13 hours after the accident? Police hope Woods can answer some of them. Two troopers tried to talk to Woods Friday evening, but his wife said he was sleeping and they agreed to come back Saturday, Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Kim Montes said.
