In a move that signals a desire to end his DUI case with as little fanfare as possible, golfing great Tiger Woods through his attorney on Wednesday took his first steps toward entering a 12-month program for first-time offenders.

Woods’ attorney, Douglas Duncan, and Palm Beach County Chief Assistant State Attorney Adrienne Ellis agreed to postpone Wednesday’s arraignment hearing, where Woods would have had to plead either guilty or not guilty to DUI and reckless driving charges. The case stems from his May 29 DUI arrest after Jupiter police found him asleep behind the wheel of his Mercedes while he was on a mix of prescribed doses of Xanax and Vicodin.

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Ellis afterward confirmed to reporters that Woods, 42, intends to participate in a Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office program that will allow him to plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving, which he later can get erased from his record as long as he attends classes, pays fines, performs community service and completes other tasks.

Duncan declined to comment on the move, and Ellis said any deal the two sides work out won’t be official until they come back to court on Oct. 25.

"Nothing is final until everyone signs on the dotted line," Ellis said.

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Woods, who had a back surgery about a month before his arrest, did not attend Wednesday’s hearing at the north county courthouse in Palm Beach Gardens. If Woods enrolls in the DUI program, local attorneys say, Duncan will likely ask a judge to allow the golfer to enter a plea to the reckless driving charge in absentia — meaning he wouldn’t have to come in to court to formally plead guilty. As part of the program, prosecutors will drop the more serious DUI charge.

Accepting the deal will make Woods the most famous participant in the DUI diversion program since Palm Beach State Attorney Dave Aronberg launched it in 2013, but defense attorneys say Duncan will likely work out a deal that will exempt Woods from some of its requirements.

Part of the program requires participants to serve 12 months on probation, which normally requires periodic check-ins at a local probation office. Defense attorney Barry Paul said that having a celebrity like Woods sit in the probation office waiting for an appointment might cause a commotion, so it is likely that Woods will be allowed to report to probation by mail.

"I’ve done it plenty of times with my (non-celebrity) clients for a variety of reasons," Paul said. "Depending on the case, it’s not difficult to get the state and the judge to agree, and in this particular case it makes sense."

His celebrity aside, the specifics in Woods case will likely allow him to skip what many believe is the most cumbersome requirement of the first-time offender program: the requirement to have an ignition interlock device installed on the offender’s car for three or six months. The device requires the driver to blow into a tube connected to a machine that measures blood-alcohol content before he or she can turn the key.

Woods on the night of his arrest submitted to two Breathalyzer tests, and the results of both revealed no blood-alcohol content in his system.

Because of this, and because the ignition interlock device only tests for alcohol and not prescription drugs like the ones Woods was taking, Paul said he believes the requirement will be eliminated for Woods.

Defense attorney Mitchell Beers, whose list of professional sports clients has included former major league pitcher Jeff Reardon and former Miami Heat center Mark Blount, agrees.

Beers says another benefit for Woods of entering the program is that evidence like the urine sample he provided won’t become public. Evidence becomes a matter of public record when prosecutors exchange it with defense attorneys through the discovery process, but they won’t be exchanging evidence through discovery if Woods enters the diversion program.

"Now no one has to see that, he does the program, puts it behind him and moves on," Beers said Wednesday.

Prosecutors would still likely require Woods to complete other parts of the program, including attending DUI school and a meeting of a drunken driver’s victim impact panel, along with random drug testing, community service and other requirements during the 12-month probation term.

In an emailed statement after the hearing, Aronberg praised the success of the program.

"The Program is an important effort to make our community safer by ensuring that drivers prosecuted for first-time DUIs (for both alcohol and drug use) have their underlying substance-abuse issues addressed," Aronberg said. "Defendants accept responsibility for their actions, our streets are safer, and taxpayers benefit from fewer trials and lower costs to our criminal justice system."

As for staying out of court to enter the guilty plea, both Beers and Paul agree that prosecutors wouldn’t be giving Woods special treatment by allowing him to do that because of the type of case it is. In fact, Paul said, it would raise questions if prosecutors fought his attorneys on such a move just because of his celebrity.

Florida law allows guilty pleas to misdemeanor crimes to be offered in absentia.

"They usually don’t object for anyone else," Paul said. "I’d be surprised if they had a problem with it here."

Wednesday’s events come a little more that two months after a Jupiter police officer said he had to wake Woods because he was sleeping at the wheel of his Mercedes, which was stopped in the right lane of Military Trail near the Indian Creek Parkway intersection.

A dashcam video showed Woods was unsteady on his feet, disoriented and slurring his words as he had a hard time following simple instructions from the officer attempting to give him a roadside sobriety test.

He initially told the officer he thought he was in California. Asked where he was going at the time the officer found him, Woods said he didn’t know.

"I like to drive," Woods says.

Woods also had no explanation for why both of the driver’s side wheels of his car were flat and why there was damage to his front and back bumpers. Police subsequently found no evidence in the area of what, if anything, Woods might have hit.