Scottie Scheffler back at PGA Championship for second round after arrest
Scottie Scheffler has made it back to the PGA Championship in time for his second-round tee time following his stunning arrest Friday morning.
He arrived back at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville at 9:13 a.m. and was scheduled to tee off at 10:08 a.m.
“Love you, Marty,” Scheffler said to ESPN reporter Marty Smith as he entered the course.
Scheffler was detained by police over a traffic flow misunderstanding around 5:45 a.m. and then booked into jail.
He was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, criminal mischief and reckless driving.
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He was initially scheduled to tee off at 8:48 a.m., but play was pushed back an hour and 20 minutes due to a fatal accident.
Scheffler was trying to move around the traffic caused by the crash and enter the course to start preparing for his second round when police stopped him and the situation escalated quickly.
ESPN’s Jeff Darlington witnessed the incident as he was entering the course himself.
“Scheffler was then walked over to the police car, placed in the back in handcuffs. Very stunned about what was happening. Looked toward me as he was in those handcuffs and said, ‘Please help me.’ He very clearly did not know what was happening in the situation — it moved very quickly, very rapidly, very aggressively,” Darlington said Friday on “SportsCenter.”
“He was detained in that police vehicle for approximately 20 minutes. The police officers at that point did not understand that Scottie Scheffler was a golfer in the tournament nor, of course, that he is the No. 1 player in the world.”
Scheffler opened the tournament with a 4-under 67 and was five shots back of leader Xander Schauffele.
