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Tiger's choice: Elin...

Novelty betting fans alert! Online bookmaker Paddy Power has a line that just may be a lightning-in-a-bottle opportunity for punters to cash in on turgid odds for profit. Check out the Irish bookie’s “Tiger Specials,” a table due for adjustment at the end of the day today, December 1.

Whoa, does the Tiger Woods car accident story get weirder daily? In days, reportage has gone from The World’s Greatest Golfer having suffered minor injuries in the wreck that occurred in the wee hours of Friday night/Saturday morning; said injuries were enough to keep him out of a charity tournament on the weekend. Woods released a statement which described “injuries sustained in a one-car accident last week,” more specifically “some cuts, bruising and right now I’m pretty sore.”

TMZ and others were soon speculating that Woods’ messed up face was due not to the accident, but rather to receiving a beating from his extremely hot (in more ways than one, apparently) wife Elin Nordegren. The given reason: Tiger’s alleged affair with Rachel Uchitel, ubiquitously described as a “party girl” in online scandal sheets.

...or Rachel?

But enough background! Paddy Power’s “Tiger Specials” – these could easily be titled the “Tiger/Elin Specials” – are the following:

Gillette to discontinue Tiger Woods’ sponsorship deal before 2011: 6/1
Elin Nordegren to enroll in anger management classes before 2010: 25/1
Tiger to score more birdies than any other golfer in 2010: 66/1
Elin Nordegren to enter Women’s LPGA Tour event in 2010: 500/1

Money-making possibilities? Sure! Live Bets Direct’s thinking that Gillette backs off the endorsement deal as this scandal gets worse and worse. (I mean, hey, we’re only four days into this story and the revelations have been interesting already.) The “anger management” prop is somewhat titillating at 25-1 as well, but with less than a month left in 2010, this one doesn’t seem *very* likely to happen. What does seem more likely is a lot more novelty prop betting on Tiger Woods right through to 2010 and beyond.

Possibly the only ones happier than prop-bet fanatics right now are the online gossipmongers.