Why won't Tiger Woods attend the 2026 Masters Champions Dinner?

The 2026 Masters Champions Dinner will be the second year in a row Tiger Woods will have missed the annual event at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia, and it has nothing to do with defending champion Rory McIlroy’s choice of seared salmon as an entrée option. Woods missed the 2025 Masters Champions Dinner because he was recovering from a leg injury. Charles Coody, winner of the 1971 Masters, said at the time, "We were putting our jackets away and the guys said that Tiger still can’t put weight on his foot.

They said his weight tolerance just isn’t there to climb up those stairs. " LIVE: See what Masters competitors are saying about Tiger Woods' DUI arrest, absence from Augusta Woods — a five-time Masters champion — will miss the 2026 iteration of the annual soiree on Tuesday night for health problems, this time of a perhaps even more serious kind. Woods was arrested March 27 after he was involved in a two-car collision on a residential street near his home on Jupiter Island, Florida.

The Land Rover that Woods was driving flipped and came to rest on its side, with Woods reported to have climbed out of the skyward-facing passenger window. Nobody was injured in the accident, and Woods declined health care after having been taken to a local hospital. It was the fourth high-profile driving incident for the 15-time major champion.

The responding sheriff’s office stated in a report the next day that Woods showed signs of impairment after the accident. The golfer told officers he had looked down at his phone and at his radio at the time of impact. Woods passed a breathalyzer with a 0.