At 2:25 a.m. the night after Thanksgiving 2009, this most famous athlete on the planet crashed his Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree at the end of his own driveway — and the story only got stranger from there.
The full story
Tiger Woods crashed into a fire hydrant and tree outside his Florida home in November 2009 and was fined $164 for careless driving. The scandal that unspooled afterward ended his marriage and cost him numerous sponsors; he returned to win the 2019 Masters in one of sport's greatest comebacks.
The clues we handed out
— He was fined $164 for careless driving; the tabloid fallout cost him his marriage, a dozen sponsors, and months away from his sport.
— A rear window of the SUV was smashed with a golf club — accounts differ as to why.
— His real first name is Eldrick.
— He completed the redemption arc with a fifth green jacket in 2019.
— Initials: T.W.
How this case played
ALLEGEDLY* edition No. 38. Three strikes to name Tiger Woods, with a free clue
unlocked after every miss.
*A blind item you can check. Every puzzle is drawn from the public record —
court records, official rulings, and moments that unfolded on live television — and the
records are linked above. Allegedly.
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