Tiger Woods Fleeing by Yacht Rumors Are Adrift
6:25 pm, December 21st, 2009
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Gossip Cop has to “dock” a lot out outlets for this one.
Weeks of scandal allegedly pushed Tiger Woods out to sea, with reports everywhere announcing that the golf great had set sail from Florida aboard his yacht.
“Tiger’s boat Privacy has been docked… for more than a week,” a source told People.com, but “On Saturday morning, after stocking up on provisions from Costco… the boat left town.” Another “source” informed the magazine’s site that Woods “is going to cruise in the Bahamas for a few days.”
Habitually wrong paparazzi site X17Online agreed, “reporting” that over the weekend Woods was “flee[ing] the country” on his private yacht, and had “set sail… for a rumored cruise to the Bahamas.”
One tiny problem.
The yacht hasn’t budged.
Sources in Palm Beach assure Gossip Cop that the luxury yacht is still docked at the marina, exactly where it’s been, and add that multiple eyewitness accounts refute the widely disseminated rumor of Woods sailing from Florida to calmer waters abroad.
So we’re left with two possibilities.
1. Woods was so anxious to “flee” the country (and wife Elin Nordegren) that he “yachted” to the Bahamas without a yacht. (Maybe he swam?)
2. Under scrutiny, the story sinks.
Yeah, we’re going with #2.
Gossip Cop hasn’t seen a nautical tale so botched since Gilligan left on his three-hour tour.
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