{"id":498959,"date":"2026-03-27T21:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:35:10","slug":"tiger-woods-arrested-after-being-in-rollover-car-crash-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/498959\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods arrested after being in rollover car crash in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tiger Woods<\/a> was involved in a rollover car crash<\/a> in Florida on Friday afternoon and has subsequently been arrested and charged with a DUI, police have confirmed.<\/p>\n

The Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office said the incident took place on Jupiter Island, in the same town where Woods lives, just after 2pm local time.<\/p>\n

A photograph has been shared of the scene which shows a vehicle laying on its driver\u2019s side. Authorities say it was a two-car collision, with Woods\u2019 Land Rover clipping a pressure-washer vehicle at speed and flipping over.<\/p>\n

Sheriff John Budensiek confirmed that there were no injuries from the crash and admitted \u201cthis could have been a lot worse\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"TigerTiger Woods has been involved in a car crash in Florida (Zac Goodwin\/PA). (PA Archive)<\/p>\n

The Martin County Sheriff\u2019s Office was not immediately available for comment when contacted by The Independent.<\/p>\n

Woods was previously involved in a high-profile rollover crash in California in 2021, which left him with serious injuries. Authorities said he was driving at least twice the 45mph speed limit when he SUV struck a tree, causing the vehicle to fly through the air and land on its side.<\/p>\n

At the 2021 Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, Woods said: “I’m lucky to be alive and also have a limb,\u201d revealing it was 50-50 as to whether part of his right leg would require amputation.<\/p>\n

\"WoodsWoods has been involved in three high-profile car accidents (REUTERS)<\/p>\n

The American was also arrested for driving under the influence in Florida in 2017, after which he checked himself into a clinic for prescription medication.<\/p>\n

Woods had been working his way back to golf from a seventh back surgery last September and his status for next month\u2019s Masters remains unclear.<\/p>\n

He admitted he got his \u201ca*** kicked\u201d after returning to golf in the virtual league with his team Jupiter Links, who lost in the TGL Finals.<\/p>\n

\"WoodsWoods has only just returned to competitive action for the first time in over a year (Reinhold Matay\/AP) (AP)<\/p>\n

His last official tournament was The Open in 2024, rupturing his Achilles tendon in March 2025 which that kept him off the course all season prior to back surgery.<\/p>\n

And while the 15-time major champion has lifetime eligibility to play at The Masters, as a previous five-time winner of the green jacket, US president Donald Trump suggested a decision had already been made<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love Tiger, but he won\u2019t be there,\u201d Trump said while appearing on \u201cThe Five\u201d on FOX News. \u201cHe\u2019ll be there, but he won\u2019t be playing in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-498959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}