{"id":223870,"date":"2026-04-08T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223870\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:42:08","slug":"tiger-woods-officially-charged-with-dui-after-rollover-crash-in-florida-records-show-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/223870\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods officially charged with DUI after rollover crash in Florida, records show \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following a rollover crash last month in Jupiter Island, Florida that led to the arrest of Tiger Woods<\/a>, on Wednesday, the golf superstar was officially charged with driving under the influence, records showed. <\/p>\n

According to court documents, Woods was charged with DUI and for refusing to take a chemical or physical test. <\/p>\n

The crash happened on March 27 along South Beach Road near Hobe Sound Beach, Martin County Sheriff’s Office officials said.<\/p>\n

Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said Woods was trying to overtake a pressure cleaner truck at a high rate of speed when he clipped the back end of the truck and rolled over his Land Rover.<\/p>\n

Woods was able to crawl out of the passenger door of the Land Rover and wasn’t injured, Budensiek said. The driver of the truck also wasn’t injured.<\/p>\n

But when authorities arrived, Woods appeared to be impaired, Budensiek said.<\/p>\n

Body camera footage showed Woods taking out his phone and telling a deputy, \u201cI was just talking to the president,”<\/p>\n

Deputies said Woods took a breathalyzer test that didn’t detect alcohol, but he refused to give a urine sample. No drugs or medications were found in his SUV.<\/p>\n

An arrest affidavit said Woods was asked if he’d had any alcohol, and he replied “none,” and when he was asked if he consumed any prescription medication, he said, “I take a few.”<\/p>\n

When he was told he was under arrest and searched, two white pills were found in his pants pocket that had “identifying marks revealed to be Hydrocodone,” the affidavit said.<\/p>\n

After his arrest, Woods was granted bond, and a judge granted his request to seek treatment outside the United States.<\/p>\n

In a statement on social media, hours after he pleaded not guilty, the 50-year-old golfer wrote, \u201cThis is necessary in order for me to prioritize my well-being and work toward lasting recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods is the most accomplished professional golfer of his generation, but has been hampered by injuries in recent years and underwent a\u00a0seventh back surgery last year.<\/p>\n

This was the fourth time\u00a0Woods has been involved in a car crash<\/a>. He was seriously injured in a car crash in February 2021 that shattered his right leg and ankle, which Woods has said nearly led to a decision to amputate.<\/p>\n

He was also arrested for DUI<\/a>\u00a0in Jupiter back in 2017 and later pleaded guilty to reckless driving in the incident.<\/p>\n

Woods competed for the first time in more than a year when he played in the TGL final Tuesday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He is set to be arraigned on April 23, court records showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following a rollover crash last month in Jupiter Island, Florida that led to the arrest of Tiger Woods,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1219,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-223870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime-and-courts","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}