Body camera video released Thursday shows Tiger Woods telling a deputy after his March 27 SUV crash in Florida that he had "been talking to the president." The actual call is not on the footage; Woods can be heard saying "Thank you so much" as he ended the call and the deputy approached. It was not clear whether he was referring to President Donald Trump. After the incident, Trump told reporters he felt badly for Woods and called him "an amazing person."
The footage captures Woods appearing surprised as deputies handcuffed him following a failed field sobriety test and as officers removed two pills from his pocket. Separate patrol-car video shows him hiccuping, yawning and repeatedly nodding off during the roughly 15-minute ride to the station.
Woods told authorities he had been looking at his phone and changing the radio when his Land Rover, traveling at speed, clipped the rear of a truck and rolled onto its side on a residential road on Jupiter Island. No one was injured. "I looked down at my phone, and all of a sudden — boom," he told an officer while kneeling on a lawn.
Martin County Deputy Tatiana Levenar conducted roadside sobriety testing and told Woods she believed hi
