Reading News for You: Golf great Tiger Woods has been arrested on a DUI charge in Florida on May 29th, 2017
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Golf great Tiger Woods has been arrested on a DUI charge in Florida. (May 29)
Doug Ferguson, Ap Golf Writer Updated 1:21 pm, Monday, May
29, 2017
Media: Associated Press
Tiger Woods was arrested early Monday on a DUI charge in
Jupiter, Florida, and spent nearly four hours in a county jail before he was
released.
Woods, the 14-time major champion who ranks second with his
79 career victories on the PGA Tour, has not played for four months. He is out
for the rest of the season while he recovers from his fourth back surgery.
Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI about 3 a.m. Monday
and taken to the Palm Beach County jail, Jupiter Police spokeswoman Kristin
Rightler said. He was arrested on Military Trail, south of Indian Creek
Parkway.
Jail records show that the 41-year-old was booked into Palm
Beach County jail at 7:18 a.m. and released on his own recognizance at 10:50
a.m. The jail released a booking photo of Woods in a white T-shirt.
Rightler said she did not have additional details about the
circumstances leading to Woods' arrest, nor did she have any information about
whether the arrest involved drugs or alcohol. She said an arrest report may be
available Tuesday.
His agent at Excel Sports, Mark Steinberg, did not
immediately respond to a voicemail from The Associated Press seeking comment.
PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said the tour would have no comment.
Notah Begay, a roommate of Woods when they played at
Stanford, could relate. Begay was arrested for aggravated drunken driving in
2000 when he ran into a car outside a bar in New Mexico. He was sentenced to 364
days in jail, with all but seven days suspended.
"It's embarrassing for Tiger, something that you can't
go back and change," Begay said on Golf Channel from the NCAA men's golf
championship, where he was working for the network. "I've been there
myself. ... But it was a turning point in my life. Hopefully, it's something
he'll learn from, grow from, take responsibility for and use it to make some
changes."
Woods has not been seen at a golf tournament since he opened
with a 77 at the Omega Dubai Desert Classic, withdrawing the next day because
of back spasms. He was in Los Angeles for the Genesis Open, run by his Tiger
Woods Foundation, but he did not come to the course at Riviera because of his
back.
He was at the Masters, but only to attend the dinner for
past champions. Woods, who had been No. 1 longer than any other golfer, has
not been a factor since his last victory in August 2013 as he battled through
back surgeries from a week before the 2014 Masters until his most recent fusion
surgery on his lower back a month ago.
In an update Friday on his website, Woods said the fusion
surgery provided instant relief and he hasn't "felt this good in
years."
It was the first time Woods has run into trouble off the
golf course since he plowed his SUV into a tree and a fire hydrant outside his
Windermere, Florida, home in the early morning after Thanksgiving in 2009,
which led to revelations that he had multiple extramarital affairs.
A police report then showed that a Florida trooper who
suspected Woods was driving under the influence sought a subpoena for the
golfer's blood test results from the hospital, but prosecutors rejected the
petition for insufficient information.
A witness, who wasn't identified in the report, told the
trooper he had been drinking alcohol earlier. The same witness also said Woods
had been prescribed two drugs, the sleep aid Ambien and the painkiller Vicodin.
The report did not say who the witness was but said it was the same person who
pulled Woods from the vehicle after the accident. Woods' wife has told police
that she used a golf club to smash the back windows of the Cadillac Escalade to
help her husband out.
He eventually was cited for careless driving and fined $164.
Woods and wife Elin Nordegren divorced in 2010. He later had
a relationship with Olympic ski champion Lindsey Vonn that lasted two years.
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