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How Tiger Woods’ front tooth was knocked out
If you saw photos of Lindsey Vonn’s boyfriend, Tiger Woods from her World Cup triumph in Italy you likely noticed two things.
This fantastic skeleton mask.
And when the mask was removed, a greater horror still
Here’s the explanation for the missing pearly white, per Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg.
During a crush of photographers at the awards’ podium at the World Cup event in Italy, a media-member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Woods in the mouth.
Adding another layer of intrigue: Deadspin suggests that the tooth that was knocked out was in fact a fake tooth, which Woods had been sporting since the events of Thanksgiving, 2009, which may have cost him the chomper.
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Jon Rahm and Alex Smalley were the best of the chasing pack, with both men sharing runner-up spot which was good enough for each to receive a check for $1,804,000.
With a total prize purse of $20.5 million up for grabs, here’s a look at how much each player won at the 2026 PGA Championship.
Players who missed the PGA Championship cut each received $4,300 each.
1: Aaron Rai, $3,690,000
T2 : Jon Rahm, $1,804,000
T2 : Alex Smalley, $1,804,000
T4: Justin Thomas, $843,866
T4: Ludvig Aberg, $843,866
T4: Matti Schmid, $843,866
T7: Cameron Smith, $637,050
T7: Rory McIlroy, $637,050
T7: Xander Schauffele, $637,050
T10: Kurt Kitayama, $496,707
T10: Chris Gotterup, $496,707
T10: Justin Rose, $496,707
T10: Patrick Reed, $496,707
T14: Matt Fitzpatrick, $364,762
T14: Scottie Scheffler, $364,762
T14: Max Greyserman, $364,762
T14: Ben Griffin, $364,762
T18: Maverick McNealy, $229,128
T18: Jordan Spieth, $229,128
T18: Stephan Jaeger, $229,128
T18: Padraigh Harrington, $229,128
T18: David Puig, $229,128
T18: Harris English, $229,128
T18: Min Woo Lee, $229,128
T18: Joaquin Niemann, $229,128
T26: Nick Taylor, $125,523
T26: Alex Noren, $125,523
T26: Cameron Young, $125,523
T26: Andrew Novak, $125,523
T-26: Daniel Hiller, $125,523
T26: Tom Hoge, $125,523
T26: Sam Burns, $125,523
T26: Hideki Matsuyama, $125,523
T26: Bud Cauley, $125,523
T35: Christiaan Bezuidenhout, $78,805
T35: Patrick Cantlay, $78,805
T35: Ryo Hisatsune, $78,805
T35: Daniel Berger, $78,805
T35: Ryan Fox, $78,805
T35: Haotong Li, $78,805
T35: Aldrich Potgieter, $78,805
T35: Si Woo Kim, $78,805
T35: Martin Kaymer, $78,805
T44: Chris Kirk, $53,743
T44: Matt Wallace, $53,743
T44: Shane Lowry, $53,743
T44: Jhonattan Vegas, $53,743
T44: Denny McCarthy, $53,743
T44: Chandler Blachet, $53,743
T44: Taylor Pendrith, $53,743
T44: Dustin Johnson, $53,743
T44: Nicolai Hojgaard, $53,743
T44: Michael Kim, $53,743
T44: Kristoffer Reitan, $53,743
T55: Collin Morikawa, $34,186
T55: Corey Conners, $34,186
T55: Andrew Putnam, $34,186
T55: Brooks Koepka, $34,186
T55: Mikael Lindberg, $34,186
T60: Sami Valimaki, $29,218
T60: Sahith Theegala, $29,218
T60: Rico Hoey, $29,218
T60: Rickie Fowler, $29,218
T60: Brian Harman, $29,218
T65: Casey Jarvis, $26,900
T65: Jason Day, $26,900
T65: Rasmus Hojgaard, $26,900
T65: Keith Mitchell, $26,900
T65: Sam Stevens, $26,900
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Jan 22, 2015 at 4:39 am
Read the headline, and go straight to the comments. Bigger news would be Tiger making a birdie, finishing a round under par, or finishing a tournament without an injury.
While I completely agree that ‘Weird things happen to people’, any time TW gets so much as an in-grown hair, he makes sure the cameras are on him and milks it for all it is worth. Tiger has never been an ‘oh by the way, I just got my face pummeled by a camera’ kind of guy. Just sayin’…
Timbleking
Jan 22, 2015 at 3:54 am
Hancock 2 – He’s back.
Released in all cinemas in Phoenix, by the end of next week…
BigBoy
Jan 21, 2015 at 5:23 pm
Everyone wants to look like Mike Tyson…WHY?????
ND Hickman
Jan 21, 2015 at 6:04 am
I’m sorry but what is with the “LOL” tag attached to this article? This is a Golf website. Not some trashy gossip rag run by Perez Hilton or TMZ. Lets try and by a little bit more serious.
jgpl001
Jan 20, 2015 at 5:33 pm
Watch out Snoop Dog, Snoop Tiger now on the scene
Rich
Jan 20, 2015 at 5:15 pm
What? No pictures of him covered in blood from having the tooth knocked out by a camera man? Good place to be (in the snow fields) when his pants are on fire!
Double Mocha Man
Jan 20, 2015 at 4:39 pm
Fake tooth. Fake personality.
SS
Jan 20, 2015 at 7:53 pm
Right on, brother, right on!
brian
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:37 pm
polarized
JOTS
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Tiger missing a front tooth and Robert Allenby has a shiner / cut head….hmmmm…..coincidence??
RC
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Tell him to get a gold tooth put in
KCCO
Jan 24, 2015 at 6:53 pm
Should def go with a gold tooth, or a pop in grill????
Yeah
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:15 pm
So a camera knocked out his fake tooth that Elin BEAT out of his lying face? I wonder if Tiger will have a press conference to say the camera man was acting heroically when it happened. HAHA
CR
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:09 pm
I hope this means that he’s done for the season
jojo
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:30 pm
B F D!
……must have been a slow news day!
JonathanBilbo
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:30 pm
Why is he walking around without his “fake tooth” anyway? Regardless of who knocked it out.
CR
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:11 pm
Cos he feels like the gangsta he wishes he was
Nikki
Jan 19, 2015 at 11:15 pm
some people have to use pontic teeth, which is a place holder before an implant. Sometimes the bone isnt ready for an implant or the space isnt needed, a lot of celebrities have fake teeth that are are only attached by bonding them to the adj teeth.
Corrie-Lynn's dad
Jan 19, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Those are nike shades
Ct
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:14 pm
No Nike sunglasses? Somebody get a hold of deadspin! STAT!
brian
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:36 pm
you sure those dont say ” nike max polorized”…. because thats what it looks like to me…..
DatSliceDoe
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:57 pm
He’s had a fake tooth for over 10 years, how is this “news.” Clearly evidenced by every image of him where one of his front teeth is noticeably whither than the other.
Ct
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Your exactly right! Wait… Tiger and Elin are not together anymore? Again, nothing new!
Jason
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:57 pm
Thanks MG! We were all hoping someone could share their sentence structure knowledge with us. Man, you’re so smart. Please tell us more.
MG
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:12 pm
lol why u mad tho?
MG
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:31 pm
“Deadspin suggests that the tooth that was knocked out was in fact a fake tooth, which Woods had been sporting since the events of Thanksgiving, 2009 may have cost him the chomper.”
First off, this sentence structure is just hot garbage. Secondly the content is way off. Deadspin showed pics going back to ’04 where there was evidence he was wearing the fake tooth, well before the Thanksgiving incident.
bradford
Jan 20, 2015 at 7:55 am
But what if his intent was to say that the actual year, 2009, was the culprit?
MG
Jan 20, 2015 at 9:06 am
That would be a perfectly fine claim to make, so long as he provides a source. The problem is he sourced Deadspin as the 2009 date in that sentence. It’s not good when you falsely interpret your source, even if you are a blogger (Don’t tell Jason though, he still mad lol).