Legendary golfer was at risk of terrorist attack in 2002 tournament

A new report has revealed that former world number Tiger Woods was at risk of terrorist attack in a 2002 tournament in New Zealand.

Trevor Mallard, a Labour MP in New Zealand, has divulged information about a cyanide-laced letter which was received just a month prior to a competition in January 2002.

The letter contained traces of a poisonous cyanide compound and was delivered to the US Embassy in Wellington in December 2001.

The letter contained a threat of a terrorist attack at the following month's New Zealand Golf Open - an event which Woods was scheduled to play at.

"It resulted in a pretty major alert. Much heavier both plain and uniformed police presence, and significant army presence at the golf but also on routes to the golf" Mallard told the New Zealand Herald.

Mallard was speaking in relation to one of New Zealand's biggest dairy provider’s announcement this that they had received anonymous letters threatening to poison milk formula.