Tiger Woods was all smiles on Tuesday – and with a full set of teeth.
The brilliant smile of Tiger Woods is back. Woods gave a play-by-play account to media on Tuesday during the Waste Management Phoenix Open news conference describing exactly how his front tooth got knocked out. The incident happened in Italy, last week, when Woods arrived to the World Cup finish line planning to surprise girlfriend Lindsey Vonn for winning the World Cup ski record.
Woods’ general demeanor during the press conference was relaxed, as he stood and explained that he wore the skeleton-patterned mask at the event, trying to blend in with the crowd, standing behind photographers at one of two podium presentations. Woods said that a videographer stood up, swung around the video camera, and it banged into his mouth, knocking out a left front tooth and badly cracking another one nine days ago.
The skeleton-patterned mask he had worn— to initially conceal his identity from the public, now sheltered the gush of blood coming from his mouth. Woods flew home the very next day and had his teeth repaired, “The flight home was a joke. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t drink until he fixed them, put the temporaries on. I couldn’t have anything touch it. Even breathing hurt, because any kind of air over the nerve, the tooth that was still alive, was cracked.” Woods said they were permanent teeth – not caps.
A World Cup race official says he was not aware of the incident and nothing had been reported.
