Tiger Woods has left yet another woman scorned — his kindergarten teacher!
The sex-crazed golf great’s former teacher called him a big liar yesterday and demanded an apology for his spreading of a story about being attacked on his first day of school by older kids who he said tied him to a tree and labeled him with the N-word — while she did nothing to help.
“It never happened,” said Maureen Decker, 69, who taught the young Tiger in 1981 at the Cerritos Elementary School in Anaheim, Calif.
“When Tiger Woods went on the talk-show circuit, I was shocked, saddened and disappointed by his false allegations of physical and racial abuse on his first day of school in my kindergarten class.”
VIDEO: TIGER’S TEACHER DEMANDS APOLOGY
Tiger has been telling a tale of the cruel racial assault since the early 1990s. He most famously repeated the story during a Barbara Walters interview after he first hit the pro tour in 1997 and was still telling of the attack as recently as five years ago.
“I became aware of my racial identity on my first day of school,” he was quoted as saying in basketball star Charles Barkley’s 2005 book, “Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man?”
“A group of sixth-graders tied me to a tree, spray-painted the word ‘n- – – – -‘ on me, and threw rocks at me . . . And the teacher really didn’t do much of anything.
“I used to live across the street from school . . . The teacher said, ‘OK, just go home.’ So I had to outrun all these kids going home . . . it was certainly an eye-opening experience.”
But yesterday, Decker said that his oft-told tale was as phony as his family-man persona — and that it was ruining her life.
“It started to affect me in a physical manner,” she said. “I dealt with migraine headaches, elevated blood pressure and colitis attacks.”
Decker said she thought Woods’ late father, Earl, had made up the story for “publicity.” She said that it was impossible for older kids to get into the kindergarten area without her knowing and that Tiger wasn’t the only minority kid in the class.
“Some of those students were just as dark as Tiger,” she said. “No one mentioned race while in my ear[shot].”
Decker spoke at a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing her and some of Woods’ alleged mistresses.
The now-retired teacher said she does not want money from Tiger and only came forward because the kindergarten-abuse story was being retold more often because of Woods’ current marital issues.
Decker said she decided to approach Allred after her sister saw a piece on the TV show “Extra” this week repeating the race-attack story.
“My mind started clicking, and I said. ‘You know what? I can’t take this any longer,’ ” she said.
Allred used words like “slandered” to describe Woods’ story but said she had no plans to sue.
Decker has denied the story before. In the golf book “The Wicked Game,” she said that there was no kindergarten attack and that the school’s former principal, Donald Hill, backed her up. She said she has tried to contact Woods’ people for years to get him to retract the story but has never heard anything.
She said that when she heard about his serial philandering, she first felt bad for his mom, and then thought, “What comes around goes around.”
Now she says that all she wants is an apology from Tiger.
“If Tiger is truly following a 12-step program for so-called sex addiction, he needs to apologize to all those he has hurt . . . and that includes me, his kindergarten teacher.”
Neither Woods’ representatives nor those for the school returned requests for comment.