Lindsey Vonn stands by Tiger Woods’ version of his missing tooth

Tiger Woods definitely, certainly, absolutely lost his infamous front tooth when a videographer knocked him in the mouth, according to the golfer’s girlfriend, Lindsey Vonn.

A day after Internet buzz about Woods’ missing tooth overshadowed Vonn’s record 63rd World Cup victory, the skier went to Facebook to say how pleased and stunned she was to see Tiger after the race and to support his version of the event that was bizarre even by Tiger standards.

“I feel terrible that his tooth got knocked out though,” wrote Vonn, who did not say if she actually witnessed the scrum that reportedly resulted in Woods’ lost ivory.

Woods arrived at the scene wearing shades, a ski cap, and a skull-patterned scarf that Vonn called a mask over his nose and mouth. The photo that had the world on tenterhooks was snapped when he took the scarf down to kiss Vonn.

Woods’ manager, Mark Steinberg, said his client lost his tooth when “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.’’

Race officials refuted Steinberg’s account.

“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.”