Tiger Woods: two versions of the 2.15am car crash

After a weekend of frenzied speculation, golfer Tiger Woods claimed on Sunday that the car accident outside his home in the small hours of Friday morning was his own fault and had nothing to do with him fleeing his angry wife because of an affair. "It's obviously embarrassing to my family and me," he said. "I'm human and I'm not perfect."

But the latest report from the gossip site TMZ.com says police are still pursuing the theory that his wife, Elin Nordegren, may have attacked him.

The Florida Highway Patrol are reported to be seeking a search warrant to allow them to seize medical records from the hospital where Woods was treated on Friday morning. If it turns out that his wounds are not consistent with a car crash, then she could be charged with domestic violence.

Woods claimed in a statement posted on his website on Sunday that there had been "many false, unfounded and malicious rumours" but that "the only person responsible for the accident is me. My wife, Elin, acted courageously when she saw I was hurt and in trouble. She was the first person to help me. Any other assertion is absolutely false."

However, his decision not to go into any further detail, coupled with his continued refusal to talk to police about the car accident - which under Florida law he is entitled to do - means the speculation has not died down.

In a nutshell, many in the US media, led by TMZ, believe Elin, a 29-year-old former model, "went ghetto" after the supermarket tabloid the National Enquirer claimed in a report that her husband was having an affair with a New York