Tiger Woods' Mugshot

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About

Tiger Woods' Mugshot is a police booking photograph of American professional golfer Tiger Woods following his arrest for suspicion of DUI, which was widely mocked online after it began circulating in late May 2017.

Origin

On May 29th, 2017, police found Woods asleep at the wheel of his 2015 black Mercedes-Benz on the side of the road in Jupiter, Florida. After failing several sobriety tests, Woods was arrested on suspicion of DUI.

Spread

That day, Redditor GDML submitted a GIF of a golf cart speeding over a sand trap titled "Tiger Woods spotted driving to the next hole" to /r/funny,^[2] where it gained over 23,400 points (87% upvoted) and 230 comments within 18 hours.

Shortly after, Redditor FruiSlamCanJam posted a photoshop of Woods' mugshot as a Kendrick Lamar's "Damn" album cover to /r/KendrickLamar^[3] (shown below). Meanwhile, Redditor the_trashman_devito posted the mugshot with the caption "when you've seen all the meme and nothing is funny anymore" to /r/dankmemes^[4] (shown below, right).

Also on May 29th, Instagram user insta_comedy^[6] posted the mugshot as a reaction image to someone repeatedly asking questions while watching a movie, garnering upwards of 115,000 likes over the next day (shown below, left). Meanwhile, the shitheadsteve^[7] Instagram feed posted the mugshot with the caption "When you've been day drinking for 3 days and suddenly remember you gotta go back to work tomorrow" (shown below, right).

Woods' Statement

That evening, Woods' released a statement saying that he experienced an "unexpected reaction prescribed medications" following a recent back surgery.^[1]