Tiger Woods’ romps with floozies destroyed his marriage, but didn’t cause the pain in his neck.
The golfer yesterday denied that the neck injury that led him to withdraw from a tournament Sunday was caused by the SUV crash that exposed his romps.
“Zero connection. Absolutely zero,” Woods said yesterday when a reporter asked if the crash left him with the current injury.
The crash in the wee hours the day after Thanksgiving occurred after Woods fled his Orlando, Fla., mansion in his Cadillac Escalade after his wife, Elin Nordegren, discovered evidence of his cheating and allegedly ran after him waving a 9-iron.
Woods, 35, dramatically pulled out of The Players Championship in Florida on Sunday in the middle of his final round because of the nagging neck.
Yesterday, he said that the injury occurred about two weeks before he played in the Masters tournament early last month, and that it has bothered him since then.
Woods said he had to pull out because he couldn’t move his head or swing.
“I’m at a point now where I just can’t go anymore,” Woods told reporters at the Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa., where he is scheduled to defend his title in the AT&T National Tournament in July. He said he would have an MRI “to see exactly what’s going on.”
Woods’ speculation Sunday that the neck injury stemmed from a bulging disc prompted dirty-minded Golf Channel reporter Win McMurry to accidentally say on air that Tiger “thinks it could be a bulging d- -k.”
Meanwhile, it was revealed yesterday that Woods and his estranged wife, Elin, will share custody of their two young kids if, as expected, they divorce.
“They have not been getting along as a married couple, but there has been no conflict over the children,” a source told RadarOnline.