Tiger Woods has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence, property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test after being involved in rollover crash in Jupiter Island, Florida on Friday March 27, 2026. This is coming five years after near-fatal accident left him fearing he’d lose leg.
According to Sky sports News, the Martin County Sheriff’s office said Woods was not injured.
Sheriff John Budensiek, from the Martin County Sheriff’s office in Florida, told reporters Woods showed “signs of impairment” after the incident in Florida, which happened shortly after 2pm on Friday and happened in the same town where Woods lives.
Tiger Woods took a breathalyser test at the scene which returned negative, but refused to submit to urine sample, Budensiek said.
It was the third time Woods was said to have been involved in a car crash, most recently in February 2021.
After the DUI investigators did some in-depth roadside tests, Woods was placed under arrest and taken to the Martin County jail.
“At the Martin County jail, and even on scene, we were really not suspicious of alcohol being involved in this case and that proved to be true,” Budensiek said.
He added that Woods has been driving at ” high speed” and his vehicle tripped on to its side and then “slid for a pretty decent space before he came to a stop.”
Woods will be kept in in jail for at least eight hours before being eligible for release on bond. The offences are said not to be felonies. And the driver of the other vehicle was said to be unhurt also.
Police were quoted as saying Woods was alone in the car and that the vehicle Woods hit was a truck towing a pressure cleaner trailer, the driver of which spotted Woods’ Land Rover overtaking at speed. The trunk driver tried to “edge off” the side of road to get out of the way but there was not enough room, the Sheriff explained.
In a stellar golfing career, Tiger Woods has won 15 major tournament. Woods spend a record 683 weeks as world No.1 and is the only player to hold all four major titles at the same time, a feat achieved across the 2000-2001 seasons and known as the “Tiger Slam.”
Woods won the 2000 US Open by 15 strokes, the largest winning margin in major championship history.
