Tiger Woods’ personal jet lands in Zurich as golf legend, 50, prepares for rehab in wake of DUI and automotive crash
The private jet owned by golf legend Tiger Woods landed in Zurich, Switzerland on Friday, according to reports.
Woods, 50, revealed in a statement this week that he would be ‘seeking treatment and focusing on my health’ after his DUI arrest, and a judge granted him permission to leave the country in order to do so with more privacy than in the United States.
It is as yet unclear whether Woods was on the plane as it headed to Europe, but Switzerland is believed to be home to some of the most expensive and luxurious private treatment facilities in the world.
TMZ reports that some facilities in Zurich even have ‘one-client admittance’, meaning that only Woods would be at the facility, granting him the privacy he desires.
The plane – said to be worth in the region of $50 million – touched down in Switzerland in the early hours of Friday morning ET, and is now flying back towards the United States, per TMZ.
Woods is a week on from his car crash and subsequent arrest near his home on Jupiter Island in Florida, after he attempted to overtake a truck and trailer at high speed but hit the back of it and flipped his own SUV onto its side.
Tiger Woods yawns in the back of the police car on his way to jail in Florida last Friday
After cops found him ‘dazed and sweaty’ with two opioid pills in his pocket, he was arrested for DUI, property damage and failure to submit to a lawful test.
The police affidavit said Woods was ‘limping and stumbling’ during a field sobriety test. After completing a number of exercises, Woods was deemed unfit to be driving his car.
He had been traveling at ‘high speeds’ on a residential road and after the crash showed ‘signs of impairment,’ Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek said, adding that investigators believe he had taken some kind of medication or drug.
He described Woods as lethargic and said he agreed to a breathalyzer test that showed no signs of alcohol, but he refused a urine test and was arrested.
Budensiek said Woods attempted to pass a pressure cleaner truck while driving on a two-lane road with a 30mph speed limit. He said authorities could not determine how fast Woods was going.
The Land Rover swerved to avoid a collision as he was passing the truck but clipped the back end of the truck’s trailer, Budensiek said. Woods’ car then rolled onto its driver’s side and he crawled out.
In police bodycam footage released on Thursday, Woods was seen in the back seat of a cop car, yawning wildly, struggling to contain a bout of hiccups, and briefly falling asleep.
Earlier footage from the crash scene showed the remarkable moment he walked away from police officers and then claimed to have been on the phone to President Trump.
Woods’ potential arrival in Switzerland for treatment comes just hours after his girlfriend Vanessa Trump broke her silence on the arrest, posting a supportive message to Tiger on her Instagram account.
Alongside a photo of the pair sharing an embrace, she wrote – quite simply: ‘Love you’.
The Daily Mail understands that behind the scenes Vanessa, 48, has been pushing Woods to get the best care possible and that she won’t stand for another repeat of the troubles that have blighted Woods’ life away from sport.
