TIGER WOODS STILL QUIET ON RACHEL UCHITEL

Tiger Woods

Golf legend Tiger Woods on Sunday described the early-morning car accident in which he plowed into a neighbor's tree as "embarrassing" in his first public statement on the matter, but declined for the third day to speak with Florida Highway Patrol troopers and hired a criminal-defense lawyer to handle the case for him. In a statement posted on his Web site Sunday afternoon, Woods accepted responsibility for driving his car into a fire hydrant and tree just outside of his driveway at 2:25 a.m. Friday and said his wife, Elin Nordegren, acted "courageously" to help him. He declined to provide further details, however, calling the incident a "private matter." Meanwhile photos of the alleged Mistress Rachel Uchitel, the woman at the centre of the Tiger Woods car crash mystery, are going for big bucks according to my photographer friends. She has previously been linked to married actor David Boreanaz and is now reported to have had an affair with Tiger Woods. She has vehemently denied both of the alleged liaisons, and in June this year told a gossip website she would "never kiss and tell". "Although I've been romantically linked to a famous baseball player, a Broadway star, a musician, and various film and television actors, I will never kiss and tell," she was quoted as saying.