{"id":569677,"date":"2026-03-28T09:24:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569677\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T09:24:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:24:26","slug":"tiger-woods-arrested-for-suspicion-of-dui-following-car-crash-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/569677\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods arrested for suspicion of DUI following car crash in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods<\/a> was released on bail on Saturday (AEDT), hours after his Land Rover clipped a truck, rolled onto its side and he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to officials.<\/p>\n

Woods, who was not injured in the crash, was released on bail, according to Christine Weiss, a spokesperson for the Martin County Sheriff’s Office. Florida law required that he spend at least eight hours in jail before he could post bail.<\/p>\n

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said Woods had been travelling at “high speeds” on a residential road and after the crash showed “signs of impairment,” adding that investigators believe he had taken some kind of medication or drug. He described Woods as lethargic and said he agreed to a Breathalyzer test that showed no signs of alcohol, but refused a urine test and was arrested.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods at the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

This was the fourth time Woods has been involved in a car crash, most recently in February 2021 when his SUV ran off a coastal road in Los Angeles at a high rate of speed<\/a>, leading to multiple leg and ankle injuries.<\/p>\n

Woods said later doctors considered amputation. He also previously sustained multiple injuries to his left knee and his back during his golf career.<\/p>\n

It was the second time Woods has been arrested for a DUI not as a result of the influence of alcohol. He said he took a bad mix of painkillers when authorities found him in 2017 asleep behind the wheel of his car, the engine still running and its driver’s side damaged. Woods pleaded guilty then to reckless driving.<\/p>\n

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Golfer Tiger Woods stands by his overturned vehicle in Jupiter Island.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a>, whose former daughter-in-law is dating Woods, was asked about the golfer when he landed in Miami on Friday afternoon for an investment summit.<\/p>\n

“I feel so badly. He’s got some difficulty,” Trump said. “Very close friend of mine. He’s an amazing person. Amazing man. But, some difficulty.”<\/p>\n

The crash occurred just before 2pm not far from where Woods lives on Jupiter Island.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods leaves the Martin County Sheriff’s Office jail facility following his involvement in a car crash.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

Budensiek said Woods attempted to pass a pressure cleaner truck while driving on a two-lane road with a 30mph (48kph) speed limit. He said authorities could not determine how fast Woods was going.<\/p>\n

The Land Rover swerved to avoid a collision as he was passing the truck but clipped the back end of the truck’s trailer, Budensiek said. Woods’ car then rolled onto its driver’s side.<\/p>\n

The sheriff said Woods was “cooperative, but he’s not trying to incriminate himself.” He said Woods has the right to refuse the urine test and that authorities “will never get definitive results with what he was impaired on.”<\/p>\n

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The scene of the accident.\u00a0WPTV<\/p>\n

Woods’ manager at Excel Sports did not immediately respond to a text message seeking comment.<\/p>\n

Woods returned from multiple back surgeries to win the 2019 Masters for his 15th major. His 82 titles on the PGA Tour is tied for the career record with Sam Snead. Since that LA crash, he has played 11 tournaments without being closer than 16 shots to the winner the four times he was able to finish 72 holes.<\/p>\n

The arrest comes as Woods was trying to decide if he was fit enough to play the Masters, which starts on April 9.<\/a> He also was to be in Augusta, Georgia, on April 5 to unveil a golf course project with Masters chairman Fred Ridley.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods hits a practice iron from a grass pad before the TGL finals golf tournament in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., Tuesday, March 24, 2026. (AP Photo\/Reinhold Matay)\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

Woods also was days away from what was described as a “soft deadline” to decide whether to be the US Ryder Cup captain for the 2027 matches in Ireland.<\/p>\n

Woods, 50, had been working his way back to golf from a seventh back surgery in September.<\/p>\n

His last official tournament was the British Open in 2024. Woods ruptured his Achilles tendon in March 2025 and that kept him off the course all season even before the back surgery. He managed to play in his indoor TGL golf league on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

He has remained deeply involved in PGA Tour affairs as chair of the Future Competition Committee that is restructuring the model of the tour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods was released on bail on Saturday (AEDT), hours after his Land Rover clipped a truck, rolled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-569677","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\/569677","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=569677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}