{"id":231211,"date":"2026-04-14T13:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231211\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:07:23","slug":"man-faces-dui-charge-after-driving-on-jacksonville-golf-course-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231211\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces DUI charge after driving on Jacksonville golf course: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t the kind of driver that is welcome on a golf course, as a Springfield man found out Saturday when Jacksonville police arrested him.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called at 5:03 a.m. Saturday to The Links Golf Course, 321 Holkenbrink Drive, and arrived to find a 2019 Hyundai Elantra leaving the course and heading into Nichols Park, according to a police report.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old driver was stopped, but not before hitting the patrol car of one of the officers who responded, according to police. Both vehicles sustained\u00a0minor front-end damage, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence and booked into the Morgan County jail before later being released on his own recognizance, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing date has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Employees were out Monday assessing the\u00a0severity of any damage to the golf course.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn\u2019t appear he was trying to tear anything up,&#8221; Jacksonville Police Lt. Sean Walker said. &#8220;He was just inebriated and did not know where he was.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn&#8217;t the kind of driver that is welcome on a golf course, as a Springfield man found&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,4614,278,3285],"class_list":{"0":"post-231211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-breakingnews","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","11":"tag-jacksonville-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pubnow","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-weird"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231211","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=231211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}