The hole in Tiger Woods' grin isn't the only one that emerged in the last few days.
The pro golfer's gap-toothed smile at girlfriend Lindsey Vonn's record-breaking victory Monday caused a swirl of attention, and now some are raising questions about Woods' explanation.
As Vonn won her 63rd World Cup race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Woods kept a low profile by sporting sunglasses and a skeleton-themed face mask. Questions started being asked when he took down the face mask and he appeared to be missing his left front tooth.
Woods' agent, Mark Steinberg, said in a written statement that "a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth. Woods' tooth was knocked out by the incident."
But the story wasn't supported by an event staffer who reportedly was with Woods as he went from the area where he was celebrating with Vonn and her family to the tent where they remained for the rest of the race.
"I was among those who escorted him from the tent to the snowmobile and there was no such incident," Nicola Colli, the secretary general of the race organizing committee, told The Associated Press.
"When he arrived, he asked for more security and we rounded up police to look after both him and Lindsey," Colli said.
Besides Colli's seemingly contradictory story, there was no visible swelling, bruising or bleeding in any of the photos of toothless Tiger.
Dr. Joseph Banker, a cosmetic dentist based in New Jersey who does not treat Woods, said that if a cameraman had just forcibly knocked out a healthy tooth, there would have been visible signs.
"It would've been a bloody mess," Banker told ABC News. "There would have been a picture of him holding a bloody rag or something like that, because it would have been a mess."
Even so, Vonn stayed on message and posted a smiling photo of the pair (with their lips tightly closed).
A soldier's game
Chad Pfeifer, a 33-year-old teaching professional who lost his left leg in Iraq, is playing in the pro-am competition in the Humana Challenge at La Quinta, Calif.
Pfeifer started playing golf in 2007 while rehabbing at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. His leg was amputated above the knee after his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.
"Golf saved my life," Pfeifer said.
He's paired with Baltimore Orioles pitcher Bud Norris. They will play alongside PGA Tour players Scott Langley and Brendon de Jonge in the first round.
A contestant on Golf Channel's Big Break series, Pfeifer is a three-time Warrior Open winner, the 2011 National Amputee champion and was tied for fifth last year in the American Century celebrity event. He played college baseball at Northwest Nazarene in Idaho.
Pfeifer teaches at the Golf Club of Estrella in Goodyear, Ariz.
Same old, same old
Ohio State Coach Urban Meyer was at it again on CBS's Late Night with David Letterman, refusing to use the word "Michigan" when discussing his team's No. 1 nemesis.
But as Mike Bianchi pointed out in the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel: "Meyer used to do the same thing (during his Florida tenure) when asked about the Gators' biggest rival -- the Gainesville Police Department."
Sports quiz
Who holds the NFL record for the most career fumbles?
Answer
Warren Moon with 161
Sports on 01/22/2015