Bodycam shows a stunned Tiger Woods handcuffed after a Florida rollover crash

Tiger Woods expressed astonishment arsenic helium was handcuffed aft crashing his SUV past week successful Florida, according to assemblage camera footage released Thursday that besides shows deputies removing 2 pills from the golfer's pocket.

"I bash judge your mean faculties are impaired, and you're nether an chartless substance, truthful astatine this clip you're nether apprehension for DUI," Martin County Sheriff's lawman Tatiana Levenar told Woods aft conducting a sobriety trial connected him.

Woods said helium was looking astatine his telephone and changing the vigor presumption erstwhile his speeding Land Rover clipped the backmost of a motortruck and rolled onto its broadside connected a residential roadworthy connected Jupiter Island. No 1 was injured successful the March 27 crash.

"I'm being arrested?" Woods responded arsenic helium stood alongside the road.

"Yes sir," Levenar said.

After handcuffing Woods, authorities searched his pockets and recovered 2 achromatic pills.

"That's a Norco," Woods said aft an serviceman pulled retired the pills, referring to a painkiller that contains acetaminophen and the opioid hydrocodone. Authorities would aboriginal corroborate that Woods was successful possession of hydrocodone.

In the bodycam footage, Woods told Levenar that helium had not drunk immoderate intoxicant and that helium had taken "a few" medications earlier successful the day, though Woods' words are muted successful the released video arsenic helium describes immoderate of the drugs.

Woods, 50, pleaded not blameworthy connected Tuesday to suspicion of driving nether the influence. He posted a connection Tuesday nighttime saying that helium was stepping distant indefinitely "to question attraction and absorption connected my health."

During a tract sobriety test, deputies noticed Woods limping and that helium had a compression sock implicit his close knee. Woods explained helium had undergone 7 backmost surgeries and implicit 20 surgeries connected his close leg, and that his ankle seizes up portion walking.

Woods, who was hiccuping during questioning, continuously moved his caput during 1 of the sobriety tests and deputies had to archer him respective times to support his caput straight, the study said.

"Based connected my observations of Woods, however helium performed the exercises and based connected my training, knowledge, and experience, I believed that Woods mean faculties were impaired, and helium was incapable to safely run the centrifugal vehicle," Levenar aboriginal wrote.

Woods is the astir influential fig successful play and has go arsenic recognizable arsenic immoderate jock successful the world. The archetypal idiosyncratic of Black practice to triumph the Masters successful 1997, helium has captivated play fans with records apt ne'er to beryllium broken.

But his injuries person kept him from accomplishing more, including those suffered successful the 2021 car clang successful Los Angeles that damaged his close limb truthful severely helium said doctors considered amputation. He has not played an authoritative lawsuit since the 2024 British Open. He was recovering from a seventh backmost country successful October and was trying to instrumentality astatine the Masters, wherever helium is simply a five-time champion.

Following past week's crash, Woods agreed to a Breathalyzer trial that showed nary signs of alcohol, but helium refused a urine test, authorities said. He was arrested and released connected bail 8 hours later.

Under a alteration to Florida instrumentality past year, refusing an officer's petition to instrumentality a breath, humor oregon urine trial became a misdemeanor, adjacent for a archetypal offense.