{"id":27767,"date":"2026-04-03T01:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tiger-woods-police-release-body-camera-footage-of-golfer-straight-after-florida-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T01:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T01:01:20","slug":"tiger-woods-police-release-body-camera-footage-of-golfer-straight-after-florida-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/tiger-woods-police-release-body-camera-footage-of-golfer-straight-after-florida-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Woods: Police release body camera footage of golfer straight after Florida crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the full video, Woods, who was wearing a blue polo shirt, shorts and dark sunglasses, was filmed calmly kneeling on one knee and telling the officers: &#8220;I looked down at my phone, and all of a sudden, boom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After an initial search, an officer left Woods and went to speak to witnesses at the scene on Jupiter Island, with one saying: &#8220;He kept coming. I was getting ready to turn in, he was coming fast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he was looking, that&#8217;s the thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nobody was injured in the crash, but Woods had to crawl out of the passenger door to free himself. He passed a breathalyser test but refused a urinalysis test for other drugs, according to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the arrest affidavit, an officer wrote Woods was &#8220;sweating profusely&#8221;, his pupils were &#8220;extremely dilated&#8221; and his movements were &#8220;lethargic and slow&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woods told officers he had not drunk alcohol that day but when asked if he had taken any prescription medication, Woods replied &#8220;I take a few&#8221;, while adding he had done so earlier in the morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then listed the medication, which was redacted from the footage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was told officers suspected his &#8220;normal faculties are impaired&#8221; by an &#8220;unknown substance&#8221;. Authorities then found two white pills in his pocket, which were identified as hydrocodone &#8211; an opioid used to treat pain. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Woods, who remained still while officers searched him and placed him in handcuffs, was asked if he had anything else on his person. He said he did not. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, it was announced that Woods had turned down the role of United States Ryder Cup captain when the biennial tournament takes place in Ireland in 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/golf\/articles\/c393zx19xemo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the full video, Woods, who was wearing a blue polo shirt, shorts and dark sunglasses, was filmed calmly kneeling on one knee and telling the officers: &#8220;I looked down at my phone, and all of a sudden, boom.&#8221; After an initial search, an officer left Woods and went to speak to witnesses at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27769,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27767\/revisions\/27769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}