Golfer’s driving licence shall be suspended for 5 years below the phrases of a plea settlement that dropped DUI expenses.
Printed On 2 Sep 2026
Tiger Woods has entered a plea settlement to a reckless driving cost after a rollover crash in March close to his residence in Florida.
Woods appeared in a courtroom in Martin County on Wednesday and agreed to a decreased cost after he was initially charged with driving below the affect (DUI). A choose ordered his driving licence be suspended for 5 years.
Woods, 50, mentioned little through the listening to and beforehand sat on the defence desk, trying again on the courtroom gallery. He arrived on the courthouse together with his girlfriend Vanessa Trump, President Donald Trump’s former daughter-in-law.
She sat behind him through the listening to.
The golf legend beforehand pleaded not responsible to a driving below the affect cost. Woods was arrested after his SUV clipped a truck and rolled over on its facet on a beachside residential highway on Jupiter Island.
A sheriff’s report mentioned deputies discovered two ache drugs in his pocket and he confirmed indicators of impairment. He did a breathalyser check, which got here out destructive, however refused to take a urine check.
Neither Woods nor the individual within the different automobile was injured within the crash, in response to officers. However his Land Rover brought on $5,000 in harm to the truck, in response to a police report. Woods had advised a deputy that he was trying down at his telephone and altering the radio station when he hit the truck.
Woods is among the many most influential figures in golf, however his profession has been derailed by a number of again and knee surgical procedures, automobile crashes and a dependence on ache treatment.
Woods has been concerned in 4 crashes through the years. He took a depart from the golf tour after a 2009 crash and once more after the most recent crash and has but to return to event play.
He left the USA to hunt remedy at an inpatient remedy facility, in response to court docket information.
Woods made his first public look since getting back from remedy on June 23 when he launched the PGA Tour’s plans to revamp its schedule for 2028. Woods remained as chairman of the tour’s Future Competitors Committee after his arrest. He didn’t take questions throughout that look.
