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Tiger Woods was arrested successful Florida pinch medicine opioids recovered successful his pouch aft nan 15-time awesome victor was progressive successful a rollover clang connected Friday, according to tribunal records.
The five-time Masters victor was arrested connected charges of driving nether nan influence pinch spot harm and refusal to taxable to a blood-alcohol (BAL) trial aft rule enforcement said his conveyance collided pinch different conveyance Friday day while he was driving impaired.
Golfer Tiger Woods stands by his overturned conveyance successful Jupiter Island, Fla., connected Friday, March 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Jason Oteri)
According to an apprehension affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital, deputies pinch nan Martin County Sheriff’s Office reported watching respective signs of impairment astatine nan scene, noting that nan play fable was "sweating profusely" and that his movements appeared "lethargic and slow."
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During nan investigation, Woods explained to deputies that he was distracted anterior to nan crash.
"Woods stated he was looking down astatine his compartment telephone and changing nan power position and did not announcement nan conveyance successful beforehand of him slowing down," deputies noted successful nan affidavit.
Law enforcement proceeded to execute section sobriety tests because of their suspicions. Woods was instructed to region his eyeglasses, and nan lawman conducting nan tests stated that his eyes appeared to beryllium "bloodshot and glassy" and "extremely dilated."
Tiger Woods was arrested connected a DUI complaint aft getting into a car clang connected Friday. (Associated Press)
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Woods was placed nether arrest, and during a search, rule enforcement recovered "two achromatic pills wrong Woods’ near broadside sound pocket." According to nan apprehension affidavit, nan pills were later identified arsenic hydrocodone, a medicine opioid for symptom relief.
Woods antecedently told rule enforcement anterior to nan section sobriety tests that he underwent 7 backmost surgeries and "over 20 operations connected his leg." He told rule enforcement that "I return a few" medicine medications.
At nan jail, Woods submitted to a breathalyzer, wherever he provided 0.00 results connected some samples. He declined to taxable to a urine test, resulting successful different charge.
Tiger Woods of Jupiter Links Golf Club looked connected aft a lucifer against Los Angeles Golf Club astatine SoFi Center connected March 24, successful Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. (Adam Glanzman/TGL/TGL Golf via Getty Images)
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Friday’s apprehension marked Woods' 2nd DUI apprehension wrong nan past decade. In 2017, he was taken into custody, besides successful Jupiter Island, aft taking medicine narcotics and being dormant down nan instrumentality of a moving car astatine 3 a.m.
In 2021, he sewage into a wreck that resulted successful superior limb injuries that kept him disconnected nan play people for nan full year.
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