Tiger Woods Pleads Not Guilty To His Latest Dui Charge

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Tiger Woods is nary stranger to doing harm power pursuing a car clang and/or DUI. Following his latest crash and apprehension for suspicion of DUI pinch spot harm and refusal to taxable to a lawful test, Woods pleaded not blameworthy to each charges this week. Woods told authorities that alternatively than driving nether nan power precocious past week erstwhile he clipped nan flatbed ramp of a trailer and rolled his Range Rover SV, he was really conscionable looking astatine his telephone and changing power channels.

Despite his determination to plead not blameworthy to this DUI charge, KTEN News reports, "Golf superstar Tiger Woods said Tuesday he was "stepping away" to activity curen and attraction connected his wellness aft his apprehension past week successful Florida...."

The constabulary study shows that Woods was recovered pinch 2 hydrocodone painkiller pills successful his pouch astatine nan segment of nan arrest, and deputies noted that he was hiccuping during questioning and continuously moving his caput during a sobriety trial contempt being told respective times to support his caput straight.

In a twitter post, Woods said that he is "stepping distant for a play of clip to activity curen and attraction connected my health." Associated Press said, "It's nan 2nd clip Woods has taken a time off pursuing a car crash. In 2009, aft his SUV plowed into a occurrence hydrant and character extracurricular his location adjacent Orlando, he took a time off of absence to activity connected being a amended person."

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— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) March 31, 2026

This besides intends that Woods will beryllium taking a break from his domiciled arsenic nan leader of nan PGA Tour's Future Competition Committee. He has not competed successful a top-level play arena since nan British Open successful 2024, owed to various aesculapian issues including a ruptured near Achilles tendon successful March past year, but anterior to his latest mishap and arrest, he was "ramping up to return to nan PGA Tour aft undergoing disc replacement room past October "according to pgatour.com.