Tiger Woods fights subpoena for medical prescription records

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Tiger Woods’ legal team is fighting prosecutors’ efforts to subpoena the golfer’s prescription records following his DUI rollover crash in Florida last month.

Attorney Douglas Duncan in response to prosecutors’ request argued that providing such records would violate Woods’ privacy, TMZ reported. He also requested a hearing to determine whether the prescription records — on file at Lewis Pharmacy in Palm Beach — are actually relevant to case.

“This right is admittedly not absolute should the State show the relevance of the records to its criminal investigation and thus warrant intrusion into Mr. Woods’ privacy,” Duncan wrote in the motion, per ESPN.

The golf great was charged with driving under the influence, property damage, refusal to submit to testing, and careless driving after his rollover crash on March 27 in Hobe Sound, not far from where he lives in Jupiter Island. Woods later told authorities he’d been looking down at his cell phone and changing the radio station in his Range Rover SUV, causing him to miss the fact the truck in front of him had slowed.

Wood’s clipped the back of a trailer attached to truck, causing his vehicle to flip, according to police. He had to climb through his driver’s side window to escape the wreck.

He was taken into custody at the scene, after stumbling through several sobriety tests, police said. Authorities also said he appeared impaired — despite blowing 0.00 on the breathalyzer — and that he had a pair of hydrocodone pills in his pocket at the time.

Woods, who later refused to take a urine test, has since pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.

Prosecutors asked that Woods turn over “copies of any and all prescription medication on file” from Jan. 1 through March 27, specifically medications prescribed and their dosages as well as whether they come with warnings about driving while using.