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Tiger Woods spoke to the media Tuesday ahead of the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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SOUNDBITE: English, Tiger Woods, on losing a tooth at girlfriend Lindsey Vonn's record breaking race in Italy a few weeks ago:

"Lindsey (Vonn) had finished so I walked back up to the top. I still had my mask on so no one knew who I was. Trying to blend in because there's not a lot of brown dudes at ski races. Ok? (Aside: So hey, we can blend in won't we?) So that was the whole idea of why I wore the mask. So I came up above and I was looking down and all the camera guys were below me on their knees or standing, moving all around trying to get a picture because she's hugging people, saying congratulations to the other racers as their coming down - some had all ready finished, some are in the changing area. And the dude with one of the video cameras on his shoulder was kneeling right in front of me, stood up turned and caught me square in the mouth. So he chipped that one, cracked the other one. I'm trying to keep this thing (mask) on so the blood's not all over the place. Luckily he hit the one that I had the root canal on. That's the one that chipped. But the other one had to be fixed as well because it had cracks all through it.....Of geez, the flight home was a joke. I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink until he fixed them, until he put the temporary's on. I couldn't have anything touch it even breathing hurt, because any kind of air over the nerve of the tooth that was still alive, but was cracked......I had to fly home and get it done first thing in the morning which was nice.....(Did the cameraman know that he had done that?) He didn't care."