A potentially explosive news conference with an alleged mistress was canceled and more details trickled out about the car accident that started all the trouble for Tiger Woods. Woods was lying shoeless and snoring on a neighbors lawn with wife Elin Nordegren by his side when Jarius Adam, who called 911, arrived on the scene, according to a CNN report. "I saw Tiger lying on the ground. Elin was talking to him," Adam said on the audio recording released by Florida Highway Patrol. He said she asked "'Can you please help me, can you please help me?'" After that, he says, "She was actually very quiet. Just kind of in shock, you know, just kind of sitting there." When an officer arrived and asked if Woods was unconscious, Adam replied, "At that point, he was, uh, he was snoring." Meanwhile, the news conference in Los Angeles for Rachel Uchitel, the woman who denied a tabloid report about an affair with Woods, was canceled about an hour before it was to begin Thursday. High-profile attorney Gloria Allred, who was to make a statement about Uchitel's relationship with golf's No. 1 player, said it was called off because of "unforeseen circumstances." Allred said she would have no further comment. The Associated Press also obtained an audio recording of the interview the Florida Highway Patrol conducted with Woods' neighbors after the accident, Adam, who called 911, and his sister, Kimberly Harris. Harris told troopers that Woods' mother, Kultida, and mother-in-law, Barbro Holmberg, were at the scene, but the AP could not confirm that. A voice that strongly resembles Woods' mother is heard in the background during the 911 call saying loudly, "What happened?" downlevel descriptionThis video requires the Adobe Flash Player. Download a free version of the player. A spokeswoman for Holmberg, mother of Nordegren, didn't know if she was in Florida when the accident happened. "I don't know for sure, but I don't think so," spokeswoman Ewa Malmborg said. "I have not been informed about that. She was here again working on Monday again anyway." In the FHP interview, a trooper asked Harris about the women and if they talked to anyone at the scene. "The cops came, the Windermere cops came first, then the security guards came," Harris said. "And then it appears Mr. Woods' mom, and Tiger's wife's mom came out after the fact. I don't know if they heard the commotion, I don't if she, his wife, left and came back. But they walked across the grass and were outside as well." Woods' peers, meanwhile, went from talking about him to playing in his $5.75 million golf tournament. He previously pulled out of the Chevron World Challenge at Sherwood Country Club, an 18-player event that pays $1.35 million to the winner. Participants spent most of the week taking questions on their sport's biggest star, most offering support and curious about details and some of the allegations. More criticism came from Jesper Parnevik of Sweden, who once employed Woods' wife as a nanny and told reporters Wednesday that he owed her an apology for introducing them. "I have lost all respect for him, primarily as a man and a father," Parnevik said in the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet on Thursday from the PGA Tour qualifying tournament in West Palm Beach, Fla. "It doesn't even feel like it matters what he has done on the golf course. My respect for him as a person is gone. We have been nice to Tiger before, but now he only has himself to blame. "We thought better of him, but he is not the one we thought he was." Among star athletes Woods considers a close friend is Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. They had dinner in Orlando, Fla., during the NBA finals this year. When he heard the word "Tiger" in a question Wednesday, Bryant said, "Man, get off that. I knew there was going to be one," and he ended the interview. The crowd was smaller than usual at Sherwood, where Woods isn't playing for the second straight year. He was recovering from knee surgery in 2008, although he was still on the property. Players knew they would be peppered with questions when they arrived, but by Thursday, it was back to birdies and bogeys. "We haven't talked about it," Zach Johnson said. "It hasn't even been a thought." ---
