Tiger Woods arrested for drunk driving in Florida, released after few hours

This is a spanner in the works for Woods, who is recovering from a surgery he had earlier this year in April.

Golf great Tiger Woods is once again in news for the wrong reasons as he was arrested for drunk driving in Florida on Monday. According to reports, Woods was arrested at 3 am (US time) and later was booked at around 7 am. He was also released a few hours after the arrest.

The local police also released a mugshot of the golfer on arresting him. This is a spanner in the works for Woods, who is recovering from a surgery he had earlier this year in April.

Woods had recently wrote after his surgery, “I want to say unequivocally, I want to play professional golf again. Presently, I’m not looking ahead. I can’t twist for another two and a half to three months. Right now, my sole focus is rehab and doing what the doctors tell me. I am concentrating on short-term goals.”

He further wrote, “I did everything I could to play at Augusta and was ready to go. Unfortunately, it was kind of like the 2008 U.S. Open. The pain was post-impact when I swung the club. I figured, ‘Can I handle it?’ This time the answer was, ‘Probably not.’ That shows the effect that nerve pain can have.”