{"id":549285,"date":"2026-03-27T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549285\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T22:35:11","slug":"tiger-woods-in-jail-after-being-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-following-car-crash-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/549285\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods in jail after being arrested on suspicion of DUI following car crash in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Tiger Woods is in jail Friday after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek.\n <\/p>\n

\n Woods was driving a Land Rover and clipped a pickup truck pulling a small trailer, Budensiek told reporters. The collision caused Woods\u2019 Land Rover to roll onto its side.\n <\/p>\n

\n When police arrived on scene, Woods showed signs of impairment, Budensiek said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOur DUI investigators came to the scene here. And Mr. Woods did exemplify the signs of impairment,\u201d Budensiek said, adding that Woods will face charges of driving under the influence, property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The investigation showed that Woods appeared to be driving erratically in the moments before the crash.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOur investigation revealed as follows: Shortly again, before 2 (p.m.), the pressure cleaner truck pulling a trailer, a small trailer, was northbound on South Beach Road and was pulling kind of to turn into a driveway,\u201d Budensiek said. \u201cIt was slowing down, starting to turn into a driveway and the driver of that vehicle looked in his mirror and saw a Land Rover, a dark-colored Land Rover, overtaking him at high speeds. And I don\u2019t know those speeds.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

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\n He added, \u201cThe Land Rover kept overtaking him. He saw it coming, so he tried to edge off to the side of the road. But, this is a small, two-lane road, and there was no shoulder for this pressure-cleaner gentleman to get off the side of the road. As he was trying to move to the side of the road, the Land Rover overtook him (and) at the last minute swerved to avoid a collision, but clipped the back end of the trailer of the pressure-cleaner apparatus, listed to the side and then rolled on to the driver\u2019s door north past the truck that had just avoided the crash.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe individual driving that Land Rover was able to crawl out the passenger door of the car and was identified to be Mr. Tiger Woods.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Budensiek said Woods was cooperative but was \u201cnot trying to incriminate himself.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe was careful in what he said and didn\u2019t say. When it came time for the test \u2013 urine test at the jail, he stopped that,\u201d Budensiek continued.\n <\/p>\n

\n Budensiek added that Woods was not under the influence of alcohol.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWoods did a breathalyzer test, blew triple zeros, but when it came time for us to ask for a urinalysis test, he refused, and so he\u2019s been charged with DUI,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n CNN has reached out to Woods\u2019 representatives for comment on Friday\u2019s crash.\n <\/p>\n

\n Woods was uninjured in the accident and has been taken to jail where policy states he will be held for at least eight hours.\n <\/p>\n

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\n Budensiek downplayed if Woods would get \u201cpreferential treatment\u201d while in custody.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWe are the Sheriff\u2019s Office. We know we arrested a high-profile figure, I am not trying to dramatize but it doesn\u2019t matter who you are. If you break the law, we are going to follow the law. Thats a really easy path to take,\u201d Budensiek said.\n <\/p>\n

\n However, Budensiek added they will make sure Woods is \u201csafe\u201d and will not put him in general population.\n <\/p>\n

\n The 50-year-old Woods is currently on the golf comeback trail after rupturing his Achilles just over a year ago and then undergoing his seventh back surgery late last year.\n <\/p>\n

\n Amid speculation that Woods would mark his comeback by participating in his 27th Masters next month, the 15-time major winner made his debut in TGL earlier this week.\n <\/p>\n

\n Woods hasn\u2019t participated in a golf tournament since July 2024, when he missed the cut at the Open Championship at Royal Troon Golf Club in Scotland.\n <\/p>\n

\n When asked about a return to competitive golf, Woods said he is \u201ctrying\u201d but his \u201cbody doesn\u2019t recover like when I was 24\/25.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cDoesn\u2019t mean I am not trying. Been trying for a while. I\u2019ve had a couple bad injuries here in the past year,\u201d Woods told reporters after the TGL match. \u201cI\u2019ve had to fight through, it\u2019s taken some time. But I keep trying. I want to play.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s not the first car accident, nor the first arrest for allegedly driving under the influence, the 82-time PGA winner has been involved in. He was previously arrested in 2017 for DUI and before that, was cited for careless driving in 2009.\n <\/p>\n

\n Woods\u2019 most recent car accident before Friday occurred in 2021 in Los Angeles. Since then, Woods has played in 11 tournaments the last five seasons, finishing only four of those tournaments.\n <\/p>\n

\n Upon arrival in Miami, President Donald Trump expressed concern for Woods, who he called his \u201cgood friend.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI feel so badly,\u201d Trump told reporters. \u201cHe\u2019s got some difficulty. There was an accident and that\u2019s all I know. \u2026.(He\u2019s a) very close friend of mine. He\u2019s an amazing person, amazing man. \u2026 I don\u2019t want to talk about it.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods is in jail Friday after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-549285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}