At 8.30 on a Wednesday morning in Martin County, Florida, Tiger Woods walks into a circuit courtroom before Judge Darren Steele — and the plea he entered months ago is about to go. Court documents filed on Tuesday confirm that the 50-year-old golf legend plans to change the not-guilty plea he had been maintaining since his arrest following a rollover crash near his Jupiter Island home on 27 March. The crash itself reads like a scene from a police procedural.

Woods was driving a Land Rover on a narrow two-lane road in Hobe Sound when he approached a truck — which was slowing to turn into a driveway — at what Sheriff John Budensiek described as "a high rate of speed" on a road posted at just 30mph. His vehicle clipped a trailer, veered hard, and came to rest on its driver's side. Woods crawled out through the passenger door, physically unhurt. Officers on the scene were less certain about his mental state.

Roadside tests flagged signs of impairment. A breath test returned zero alcohol, but Woods refused to provide a urine sample for drug testing — one of the charges he now faces. He told investigators he had taken several medications that day: blood-pressure drugs, cholesterol medication, ibuprofen, and the prescription opioid painkiller Vicodin. Then came the stranger details in the court filings: at the scene, he mentioned ten to fifteen drones hovering over his home, and told an officer he had "just been talking to the president" — a claim that Donald Trump appeared to corroborate later that same day.

Tuesday's filing does not specify what new plea Woods intends to enter, and no deal has been confirmed publicly.