Judge grants prosecutors access to Tiger Woods' prescription records

Tiger Woods pleaded not guilty to misdemeanors, driving under the influence and refusal to submit to a lawful test, after a rollover crash March 27 in Jupiter Island, Fla. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

On Tuesday, the parties agreed that the records would only be made available to prosecutors, law enforcement, expert witnesses and Woods' defense team. They will not be available through open records law and will be hidden from the public.

Woods pleaded not guilty March 31 to the DUI charge. He later announced he would step away from golf and received legal permission to leave the country for treatment. He did not attend Tuesday's hearing.

A Florida judge granted prosecutors' request for Tiger Woods' prescription drug records Tuesday in Stuart, Fla. File Photo by John Sommers II/UPI

Through the subpoena, prosecutors are seeking to find out the date and time Woods' prescriptions were filled, the number of pills, instructions, dosage, refill dates and all warnings for the prescriptions he took from Jan. 1 to March 27.

Lewis Pharmacy, where Woods allegedly filled prescriptions, is about 25 miles south of where Woods was arrested for his role in a rollover crash March 27 in Jupiter, Island, Fla.

Tiger Woods stepped away from golf to seek treatment and focus on his health after his March arrest. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI

An arrest affidavit from the Martin County Sheriff's Office said officers observed Woods "sweating profusely" and that he possessed hydrocodone pills after his crash.

They also said he had "bloodshot and glassy" eyes, was "lethargic and slow" and "limping and stumbling" between field sobriety tests. Woods told sheriff's deputies he took prescription medication on the morning of the crash.

Tiger Woods told sheriff's deputies he took prescription medication on the morning of his rollover crash March 27 in Jupiter Island, Fla. File Photo by John Sommers II/UPI

An officer found two hydrocodone pills inside his pants pocket during a search.

Woods, who also was arrested on a DUI charge in 2017, said then that he had an unexpected reaction to prescription medicine. A toxicology report found that he had Vicodin, Xanax, Ambien, Dilaudid and THC in his system during that arrest.

Woods pled guilty to reckless driving, and his DUI charges were dropped from that incident.

A status conference in the recent arrest is scheduled June 2.