Tiger Woods Drives His Marriage Into the Rough with Even the Rich | 53

The Big Flop

Wondery

Society & Culture, Comedy, Business

4.6 • 884 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

At 2:30AM on Thanksgiving night 2009, Tiger Woods, one of the most famous athletes in the world, drove his car into a tree outside his neighbor’s house. This bizarre accident set off a chain of events that exposed Tiger’s secret affairs to the world and wound up wrecking more than his Escalade: It wrecked his marriage, and almost totaled his career.

Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-Williams from Even the Rich join Misha to tee off on the salacious scandals of Tiger Woods.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to the Big Flop early and ad-free.
0:05.3	Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts.
0:19.4	It's 2 a.m. on Thanksgiving night 2009.
0:24.0	You're comfortably in bed deep in a food coma, sleeping off all that stuffing, mashed potatoes, and pie.
0:32.3	It's another quiet evening in your gated neighborhood on the water.
0:38.3	The light from a pair of headlights briefly shines through your bedroom window,
0:43.3	and you hear an engine revving. Then you hear a crash.
0:49.3	You jump out of bed, and though it's tough to run when you're this full,
0:52.3	you go racing out of your house into the night.
0:56.5	In front of your driveway, you find a black escalade smashed into a tree. The car's not just a
1:02.9	little dinged up, the hood is crumpled and the bumper is wrecked. You start to move closer to
1:09.5	see if you can help, but now things are getting even
1:13.0	weirder. A blonde woman comes running out of the darkness, up to the car, and in her hand is
1:20.3	a golf club? The woman takes the club and starts smashing the car's back windshield.
1:32.2	The driver of the car is laying on the concrete next to the vehicle.
1:33.4	He's unconscious.
1:35.4	There's blood on his face.
1:38.7	Oh, and he's also not wearing any shoes.
1:40.4	It's your neighbor.
1:42.6	And your neighbor isn't just anyone.
1:47.2	It's legendary golfer Tiger Woods. Huh,
1:54.7	that may partially explain the golf club. You run back inside to call 911 yelling, Tiger is down,
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