Woods' front tooth knocked out by camera

A camera has struck Tiger Woods' in the mouth, knocking out one of his teeth in Italy as he celebrated his girlfriend Lindsey Vonn's World Cup skiing win.

A Toothless Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods has had a front tooth knocked out after a photographers' camera struck him in the mouth. (AAP)

Tiger Woods has another reason not to like cameras - it cost him a tooth.

Woods made a surprise visit to Italy on Monday to watch girlfriend Lindsey Vonn capture her record 63rd World Cup skiing title.

The photo that generated all the buzz was Woods missing his front tooth.

The culprit, according to his agent, was a camera.

"During a crush of photographers as the awards podium at the World Cup event in Italy, a media member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Tiger Woods in the mouth," Mark Steinberg of Excel Sports said in an email.

"Woods' tooth was knocked out by the incident."

Woods had been wearing a scarf with a skeleton pattern over the lower part of his face, sunglasses and a stocking cap.

The photo was taken when the scarf was lowered.

Steinberg was travelling and did not say when Woods would have the tooth replaced.

Golf's biggest - and most photographed - star returns to competition next week in the Phoenix Open, and his smile is sure to produce a stream of shutters from the cameras.

Woods has a long history with cameras, often frustrated when shutters go off in the middle of his swing.

One notable episode came during the Skins Game in 2002 when a corporate photographer clicked his camera as Woods was hitting a shot from the bunker on the final hole.

His former caddie, Steve Williams, took the camera and set it on a steep bank of a pond so that it tumbled into the water.

Another time, Woods was on the verge of his first bogey-free tournament at a World Golf Championship in Ireland when a camera clicked at the top of his tee shot.

He made bogey, but still won.


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