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For the first time since his recent DUI arrest, Tiger Woods has been seen in a newly released mugshot by the police, capturing the golf icon in a less-than-flattering moment.
The 50-year-old Woods found himself in legal trouble last Friday afternoon. Attempting to overtake a truck and trailer at a high speed on Jupiter Island, he inadvertently clipped the back of the vehicle, causing his SUV to tip over onto its side.
Once he managed to exit his vehicle through the passenger window, Woods declined to provide a urine sample to law enforcement officers. This refusal led to his arrest, facing charges of DUI, property damage, and noncompliance with a lawful test.
Subsequently, Woods was taken to the Martin County Public Safety Complex, where he was officially booked around 3 p.m., and the latest mugshot was taken to document the incident.
The police released the photograph to the public later that evening, just after 10 p.m. In the image, Woods is seen wearing a blue golf polo, with his eyes noticeably puffy and bloodshot, reflecting the severity of the situation.
The 15-time major champion remains behind bars in Florida, with Sheriff John Budensiek earlier confirming that he would be required to spend at least eight hours in prison before being allowed to leave on bail, likely some time after 11pm.
Tiger Woods stares down the lens in his police mugshot after being arrest for DUI on Friday
Woods stands alongside his Range Rover SUV after clambering out of the passenger side
Speaking to reporters, the sheriff said of Woods’ jail time: ‘It doesn’t matter who you are, if you break the law we’re gonna follow the law. That’s a really easy path to take.
‘Now as far as being in the jail, we’re gonna make sure he’s safe. We’re not gonna put him in general population, he’s not gonna be with other inmates that can try and hurt him or try to capitalize on what he did.
‘He’ll pay the price, but he’s not gonna pay the price by getting punished in jail. He was not injured. He was lethargic on scene, but we believe that was because of what he was intoxicated on.’
At the scene of the accident, Woods passed a breathalyzer test after showing ‘triple zeros’, but then refused to give a urine sample twice, once on the roadside and then again at the jail.
‘He is cooperative, but he was not trying to incriminate himself, so he was careful in what he said and didn’t say,’ Sheriff Budensiek explained. ‘When it came time again for the test, the urine test at the jail, he stopped that.
Woods flipped his SUV onto its side after clipping a trailer (right) while attempting to overtake
Woods is seen in a police booking photo after his arrest on suspicion of DUI on May 29, 2017
‘On scene, we had [Drug Recognition] experts evaluating him and they believed from on scene that he was not impaired with alcohol, but they believe it was some type of medication or drug. And again, at the jail he cooperated with the breathalyzer, and then the urine [test] he wanted no part in.
‘He has a right to refuse that test. There is a statute that he will be charged with for refusing to take that test, but we will never get definitive results as to what he was impaired on at the time of the crash.’
Woods, who lives on Jupiter Island around two miles from where the incident occurred, was involved in a similar crash in 2021 in California, which shattered his right leg after he was trapped under the vehicle. He needed multiple surgeries in order to recover from his injuries.
The accident, the third crash he has been involved in in recent years, comes just days after Woods made his hugely anticipated return to golf at an event on Tuesday night, where girlfriend Vanessa Trump was watching him play.
Woods was previously pictured in a police mugshot in 2017 after being arrested for his first DUI, when police found him slumped in his car in Florida with five drugs in his system, including two painkillers.
The golf legend kisses girlfriend Vanessa Trump on the cheek on his return to golf on Tuesday
Woods pictured with his two kids Sam (center) and Charlie (left) in Florida in 2023
He subsequently checked into rehab for painkiller addiction.
He was involved in another high-profile crash in 2009 when he hit a fire hydrant after being chased from his home by then-wife Elin Nordegren, which led him to admit to multiple affairs and drug use.
Woods and Nordegren eventually divorced in 2010 but have remained friends while co-parenting their children.
‘Having the relationship that I have now with her is fantastic,’ Woods told Time in 2015. ‘We both know that the most important things in our lives are our kids. I wish I would have known that back then.’
Their 17-year-old son, Charlie, is an aspiring golfer and the former couple often reunite to support him at events. They also have a daughter, Sam, who is 18.
Woods has been dating Vanessa Trump for over a year – their relationship was first reported by the Daily Mail in March 2025 after they started seeing each other around Thanksgiving 2024.
Vanessa filed for an uncontested divorce from ex-husband Donald Trump Jr. in March 2018.