Judge Rules Tiger Woods Must Turn Over His Prescription Records to Prosecutors

In 2021, Woods was seriously injured in a car accident in California that left him hospitalized for multiple major leg injuries. Police said that single-car accident was attributed to excessive speed.

On Tuesday morning, Judge Darren Steele of the Martin County Circuit Court presided over a hearing regarding Woods’s prescription drug records.

Prosecutors had obtained a subpoena for “[a]ny and all prescription medication on file” for Woods, “to include date and time prescription was filled, type of prescription, number of pills in each prescription, the dosage amount, all special instructions on how to take the medication, date of next refill, all warnings including but not limited to operating a motor vehicle while taking the prescription from January 1, 2026 – March 27, 2026,” from his local pharmacy.

In a short two-page order, Steele noted that Woods had asserted his constitutional right to privacy in his medical records, but acknowledged this right was not absolute and he had “acknowledged that…the State would be able to show a compelling need and relevance to obtaining the prescription records.” (Specifically in this case, the pills found in Woods’s pocket and signs of impairment police allege he was showing after the accident, plus his refusal to submit to a urinalysis test, make what medicines he was prescribed relevant evidence.)

To balance the two, the judge ruled that Woods’s prescription records would be turned over subject to a Protective Order that would exempt them from the public court records and restrict access to the State Attorney’s Office, law enforcement, any experts the SAO hired for the case, and Woods’s legal defense team.

Steele’s order added that if either party wished to use any information in the prescription records at trial, “the party shall provide notice to opposing counsel and allow time for an objection to be made.”

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