After car crash, Tiger Woods told officer he was ‘talking to the president’

iger Woods is taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies following a car crash in Jupiter Island, Florida, in March.

Photo: Martin County Sheriff’s Office via AP After crashing his SUV last week in Florida, Tiger Woods took out his phone and told a deputy, “I was just talking to the president,” according to body camera footage released Thursday showing Woods’ arrest on a DUI charge.

The phone conversation was not captured on video, but Woods could be heard saying, “Thank you so much,” as he hung up and the deputy approached.

It was not clear if Woods was referring to US President Donald Trump, whose former daughter-in-law, Vanessa Trump, is dating Woods.

Shortly after the golfer’s March 27 arrest, Trump was asked about Woods and told reporters: “I feel so badly.

He’s got some difficulty.

Very close friend of mine.

He’s an amazing person.

Amazing man.

But, some difficulty.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Trump spoke to Woods after the crash.

The footage also shows how Woods appeared to be astonished as he was handcuffed after failing a sobriety test and a video from the back of the patrol car shows the handcuffed golfer hiccupping, yawning and repeatedly appearing to nod off during the 15-minute ride.

Vanessa Trump walks by as Donald Trump Jnr (centre) hugs his father, Donald Trump, in Cleveland, Ohio, in July 2016.

Photo: Reuters Woods told authorities he was looking at his phone and changing the radio station when his speeding Land Rover clipped the back 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,” Woods told an officer as he knelt on a lawn, before his arrest.

Body camera footage shows Martin County Sheriff’s Deputy Tatiana Levenar then conducting a roadside sobriety test and telling Woods: “I do believe your normal faculties are impaired, and you’re under an unknown substance, so at this time you’re under arrest for DUI.” “I’m being arrested?” Woods responded. “Yes, sir,” Levenar said.

After handcuffing Woods, authorities searched his pockets and found two white pills. “That’s a Norco,” Woods said after an officer pulled out the pills, referring to a painkiller that contains paracetamol and the opioid hydrocodone.

Authorities would later confirm that Woods was in possession of hydrocodone.

Tiger Woods is strapped into a police vehicle following a car crash in Jupiter Island, Florida,

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