{"id":231278,"date":"2026-03-28T07:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/sports-star-tiger-woods-charged-with-dui\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T07:55:18","slug":"sports-star-tiger-woods-charged-with-dui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/sports-star-tiger-woods-charged-with-dui\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports star Tiger Woods charged with DUI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-03-28\" datetime=\"1774684518\" pubdate=\"\">28 March 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/tiger-woods\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,tiger-woods\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiger Woods<\/a> has been charged with DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test after being involved in a rollover car crash.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Tiger Woods has been charged with DUI<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old golf legend was involved in the incident in Jupiter Island, Florida, on Friday (27.03.26) afternoon, and Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek subsequently confirmed the charges at a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Budensiek alleged that Woods was driving his Land Rover at high speed behind a pickup truck when he clipped the back of a trailer, causing his vehicle to roll over onto the driver&#8217;s side door and slide down the road. Nobody was injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Woods was able to climb out of the vehicle, but Budensiek alleged that the sports star appeared &#8220;lethargic&#8221; and showed &#8220;signs of impairment&#8221; before being placed under arrest and taken to the Martin County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Woods did not consume alcohol \u2014 blowing &#8220;triple zeroes&#8221; on a breathalyser test \u2014 but allegedly refused a urinalysis. Authorities believe he was &#8220;not impaired by alcohol but possibly by medication or another substance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBudensiek said: &#8220;We know we arrested a high-profile figure, but the law applies the same to everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe crash is the second rollover car accident Woods has been involved in, having previously been seriously injured in February 2021 when his vehicle struck a sign and travelled several hundred feet from the centre divider before landing by the roadside.<\/p>\n<p>\nWoods underwent emergency surgery following that incident, but was not charged in connection with the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe latest incident is not Woods&#8217; first brush with the law \u2014 in 2017, he was involved in a crash that led to him pleading guilty to reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sheriff confirmed that Woods &#8211; who is one of the highest-earning athletes of all time &#8211; would not receive preferential treatment in custody, but would not be placed in the general prison population, either.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/sports-star-tiger-woods-charged-dui-1439865.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28 March 2026 Tiger Woods has been charged with DUI with property damage and refusal to submit to a lawful test after being involved in a rollover car crash. Tiger Woods has been charged with DUI The 50-year-old golf legend was involved in the incident in Jupiter Island, Florida, on Friday (27.03.26) afternoon, and Martin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5598],"class_list":{"0":"post-231278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-tiger-woods"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}