Tiger Woods arrested for DUI

Tiger Woods arrested for DUI



One of Tiger Woods' ex-mistresses has emerged after his DUI arrest today, saying she feels sorry for the golfer.

'I saw the news, I only feel compassion for the guy. I think he's a good person, and it's kind of sad,' Cori Rist told the New York Post on Monday, just hours after Woods' 3am arrest.

The two met in 2006 at a night club, and went on to sleep together for about six months while Woods was still married to Elin Nordegren. Rist said that Woods never had problems with drugs or alcohol when they were together.

'I think he’s a good person, and clearly he’s a good father, and he’s going through a difficult time, and I think people should offer support instead of applauding his downfall,' Rist, a former lingerie model, said.

'I just wish him the best, and I hope to see a good outcome from all of this, and I think he’ll be OK.'

Woods was arrested early Monday morning in Florida on a charge of driving under the influence.  



The 41-year-old golfer was arrested around 3am on Military Trail, south of Indian Creek Parkway in Jupiter.

Arrest information from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office shows Woods was booked into jail at 7:18am and then released on his own recognizance at 10:50am, meaning he did not have to post bail.

He faces a charge of driving under the influence of either alcohol or drugs. Police have yet to specify which, if not both, though more details are set to be released on Tuesday.

Woods lives in the elite enclave of Jupiter Island, but was driving southbound, away from his home at the time. He was about seven to 10 minutes from The Woods, a restaurant he owns in the area.

Sources tell TMZ that Woods was 'driving erratically, all over the road'.



When they pulled him over, the officer smelled alcohol on Woods' breath and said that Woods became 'arrogant'.

The officer asked Woods to blow into a breathalyzer and he refused, which in Florida results in an automatic DUI arrest and license suspension.

The source added that Woods' team has been calling the police department all morning, asking if the cop had a body cam.  

TMZ reports that Woods was driving a 2015 Mercedes, and that cops were planning to tow the vehicle before a friend retrieved it.

This is the second time that Woods has been caught driving under the influence.



In November 2009, two days after the National Enquirer broke the story that Woods had been cheating on his then-wife Elin Nordegren with a New York City nightclub manager, Woods left home after taking an Ambien and crashed his Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant, a tree and several hedges.  However, he wasn't charged in that incident.

Following that incident, several other women came forward, saying they too had affairs with the professional golfer - tarnishing his previously pristine image.

A month later, he entered a 45-day therapy program and apologized for his actions, saying: 'I thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to'.

Woods and Nordegren divorced a little less than a year later, in August 2010. The former couple have two kids together - a daughter named Sam, born in 2007, and a son named Charlie, born in 2009.



Since the scandal, Woods' career has been in a free fall as he's failed to remain a major competitor and advertisers have stopped sponsoring him.

The 14-time major winner, and former world number one, has dropped to 876th in the world rankings after years of injury problems and has not played in any of the major tournaments for the past two years.

But he had fusion surgery to address the issue in April and said last week that he hasn't 'felt this good in years'.



'My surgeon and physiotherapist say the operation was successful.

'It's just a matter of not screwing up and letting it fuse. I'm walking and doing my exercises, and taking my kids to and from school. All I can do is take it day by day. There's no hurry.

'But, 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 said in a statement on his website on Thursday.

Woods was reported to be worth $740million by Forbes in 2016, making $100million annually during his peak in the late 2000s and has earned a reported $1.4billion in prize money and endorsements since his career began.