{"id":834363,"date":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834363\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","slug":"tiger-woods-pleads-no-contest-in-march-crash-drivers-license-suspended-for-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/834363\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods pleads no contest in March crash, driver’s license suspended for five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tiger Woods changed his plea to no contest for the reduced charge of careless\/reckless driving on Wednesday in a south Florida court.<\/p>\n

Woods initially plead not guilty to the charge of driving under the influence and refusal to submit to testing following a crash in March near his home in Jupiter, Fla.<\/a>, that involved another vehicle.<\/p>\n

Neither Woods \u2013 who attended Wednesday\u2019s hearing with his girlfriend, Vanessa Trump, President Donald Trump\u2019s former daughter-in-law \u2013 nor the driver of the second vehicle were injured. Woods agreed to take a Breathalyzer test, which was negative, but refused to take a urine test.<\/p>\n

The minutes from Wednesday\u2019s hearing note that this is Woods\u2019 second reckless driving offense and his driver\u2019s license was suspended for five years. Woods also had to pay $1,961 in court fines and fees.<\/p>\n

Woods has been involved in multiple car crashes, including a 2021 accident in Los Angeles when he flipped his SUV and was severely injured.<\/p>\n

At the time of his arrest in March, Martin County Sheriff\u2019s deputies noted Woods\u2019 movement was \u201clethargic and slow\u201d and his eyes were \u201cbloodshot and glassy.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to court records, Woods left the United States to seek treatment at an inpatient treatment facility.<\/a> In a statement released on social media, he said he was \u201cstepping away for a period of time to seek treatment and focus on my health.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woods last played a PGA Tour event in 2024 at The Open Championship, although he has been an active member of the circuit\u2019s Future Competitions Committee and attended a press conference in June alongside Tour CEO Brian Rolapp<\/a> to announce the circuit\u2019s new competitive model.<\/p>\n

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Tiger Woods\u2019 arrest Friday for a car crash in Florida was at least the fourth auto-related incident involving the golfer and the second in which he was charged with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods changed his plea to no contest for the reduced charge of careless\/reckless driving on Wednesday in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-834363","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\/834363","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=834363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}