{"id":569443,"date":"2026-03-28T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569443\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:45:11","slug":"tiger-woods-arrested-on-dui-charge-after-car-crash-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569443\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods arrested on DUI charge after car crash in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods was arrested and booked into the Martin County Jail on a DUI charge, among other charges, after being involved in a rollover car crash on Friday afternoon in Jupiter Island, Florida.<\/p>\n

The two-car crash occurred shortly before 2 p.m. ET near the 280 block of South Beach Road in Jupiter Island, Florida, not far from Woods\u2019 home in Hobe Sound, Martin County sheriff John Budensiek said in a press conference a few hours after the incident.<\/p>\n

Budensiek said that a pickup truck pulling a pressure-cleaning trailer was traveling northbound on South Beach Road, where the sped limit is 35 mph, before attempting to pull into a driveway. At that time, the driver of the pickup looked in his rearview mirror and saw an SUV, determined to be a Range Rover driven by Woods, overtaking him at high speed, Budensiek said. He added, as the pickup driver tried to evade the fast-approaching SUV on the small, two-lane road, Woods\u2019 SUV swerved left, though still clipping the trailer. The collision caused Woods\u2019 SUV to rollover onto the driver\u2019s side and slid some distance before coming to a rest.<\/p>\n

There were no injuries to either driver, and Woods was able to climb out the passenger door, according to Budensiek. There were no other occupants in either vehicle.<\/p>\n

However, DUI investigators were called to the scene and determined that Woods, per Budensiek, was \u201clethargic\u201d and \u201cdid exemplify signs of impairment.\u201d Several in-depth, roadside tests were conducted, taking into account Woods\u2019 injury history and physical limitations, and Woods was then placed under arrest and booked into the Martin County Jail.<\/p>\n

Budensiek stated that alcohol was not involved, as Woods blew \u201ctriple zeroes\u201d on a breathalyzer test, but Woods refused to take a urinalysis. Budensiek added that investigators believed that Woods was under the influence of \u201csome type of medication or drug.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was cooperative, but he was not trying to incriminate himself,\u201d Budensiek said. “… The urine [analysis], he wanted no part of. … We will never get definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chamblee on Woods: ‘You have to wait for the facts to play out’<\/p>\n

Brandel Chamblee joined Rich Lerner on “Golf Central” to discuss Tiger Woods’ DUI arrest. Chamblee was adamant that “you have to wait for the facts to play out.”<\/p>\n

In addition to DUI, Woods was also charged with property damage and a refusal to submit to a lawful test. Florida law requires persons to be incarcerated at least eight hours following a DUI arrest. Woods is not being kept with other inmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cHad there been somebody moving in the opposite direction, we would not be having a conversation saying there were no injuries,\u201d Budensiek said. \u201cThis could\u2019ve been a lot worse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Golf Channel has reached out to Woods\u2019 manager at Excel Sports and is awaiting a response.<\/p>\n

In February 2021, Woods was severely injured in a rollover crash outside of Los Angeles. Woods had to be removed from the vehicle after the one-car, high-speed crash, and he underwent multiple surgeries on his right leg and ankle. Four years prior, he was arrested on a DUI charge near his Jupiter home after police found him asleep behind the wheel of a parked vehicle.<\/p>\n

Before Friday\u2019s crash, Woods had been contemplating whether he would compete in the Masters in two weeks. He hasn\u2019t competed since the 2024 Open Championship after undergoing his seventh back operation last October, though he did play Tuesday night\u2019s TGL finals match for his Jupiter Links team. He also entered this summer\u2019s U.S. Senior Open, it was reported earlier Friday, but had not officially committed to play in the PGA Tour Champions\u2019 major.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods was arrested and booked into the Martin County Jail on a DUI charge, among other charges,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569444,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-569443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}