Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was nonetheless in competition to win the US PGA Championship, taking pictures a spherical of 66 simply hours after being arrested and charged by Louisville police.
The world No.1 was arrested on Friday morning on his solution to the course, with beautiful photos displaying him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders throughout a pedestrian fatality investigation.
Louisville Metro Police Division stated Scheffler was booked on 4 prices, together with second-degree assault of a police officer after his automobile dragged an officer to the bottom and injured him.
Scheffler was additionally booked on prices of third-degree legal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding site visitors alerts from an officer directing site visitors.
In a span of 4 hours, Scheffler was arrested sporting gymnasium shorts and a T-shirt, wearing an orange jail shirt for his mug shot, returned to Valhalla Golf Membership in golf garments and made his 10:08 am second-round tee time.
After placing out a press release that the incident was a “massive misunderstanding”, Scheffler, who later stated he been shocked and confused by the arrest, then went on to shoot his five-under par spherical amid cheers and help from the galleries.
“It was a chaotic state of affairs and a giant misunderstanding. I can’t get into what transpired, exterior of my coronary heart goes out to the household,” Scheffler stated post-round, providing his sympathy to the household of a match vendor John Mills, the pedestrian who had died within the accident.
“I can’t think about what they’re going by this morning.”
Police stated the pedestrian had been struck by a bus whereas crossing the street in a lane that was devoted to match site visitors. He was pronounced lifeless on the scene about 5:09am.
ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington witnessed the incident and stated Scheffler, who was to begin the second spherical at 8:48am, drove previous a police officer a bit of after 6am in his SUV with markings on the door indicating it was a PGA Championship automobile.
Scottie Scheffler with followers sporting Scottie Scheffler t-shirts as he walks off the ninth inexperienced throughout the second spherical of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Membership on Might 17, 2024 in Louisville. (Picture by Patrick Smith/Getty Photographs)
The officer screamed at him to cease after which grabbed onto the automobile till Scheffler stopped about 10 yards later, Darlington stated.
The officer, recognized within the arrest report as Detective Gillis, was dragged “to the bottom” and suffered “ache, swelling, and abrasions to his left wrist” after the automobile “accelerated ahead,” in response to Louisville police.
Scheffler was booked at 7:28am — about two-and-a-half hours earlier than his up to date tee time after the second spherical was delayed due to the fatality.
The officer was wearing a excessive visibility reflective jacket when he stopped Scheffler’s automobile to provide directions, the arrest sheet stated. Detective Gillis was taken to the hospital for his accidents.
Darlington stated police pulled Scheffler out of the automobile, pushed him up in opposition to the automobile and instantly positioned him in handcuffs.
“Scheffler was then walked over to the police automobile, positioned within the again, in handcuffs, very shocked about what was occurring, seemed towards me as he was in these handcuffs and stated, ‘Please assist me,’” Darlington stated.
“He very clearly didn’t know what was occurring within the state of affairs. It moved in a short time, very quickly, very aggressively.”
Scheffler stated later, “I used to be fairly rattled to say the least. The officer that took me to the jail was very form. He was nice. We had a pleasant chat within the automobile, that sort of helped calm me down.
“I used to be by no means indignant. I used to be shaking for like an hour, I’d say in shock and in concern. Popping out right here and attempting to play in the present day was undoubtedly a problem, however I did my finest to regulate my thoughts, management my respiration.
“After I was sitting in just like the holding cell or no matter, there was a TV there and I may see myself on ESPN.
“The officers downstairs, they have been discussing how lengthy it was going to take me to get launched.”
The 27-year-old is nine-under heading into the weekend, three photographs behind Xander Schauffele, who backed up his course-record nine-under with a strong three-under in his second spherical.
Former champion Collin Morikawa is one shot again at 11-under after carding a six-under for the day.
Tigers Woods had a horrible day, ending six-over to overlook the minimize.
After ending one-over on the finish of his first spherical, the 15-time main winner’s hopes nose-dived after two triple-bogeys inside his opening 4 holes to begin his second spherical.
In his final 22 begins in majors, he has missed the minimize 10 instances and withdrawn twice.
Regardless of his lean patch since getting back from one other damage, Woods was optimistic his type would return in time.
“It would — in time,” Woods stated. “I must play extra. Sadly, I simply haven’t performed an entire lot of tournaments, and never an entire lot of tournaments on my schedule both. Hopefully, the whole lot will by some means come collectively in my follow classes at dwelling and be prepared for Pinehurst.”
Aussies within the combine
Magical Min Woo Lee and Jason Day have made massive strikes to revive Australian hopes on the drama-charged PGA Championship in Kentucky.
Three sensible chip-ins helped Lee to a five-under-par 66 that despatched the Perth prodigy rocketing up the leaderboard throughout the second spherical at Valhalla.
He joined Day, who had a five-birdie 67, at 4 underneath for the championship to be trailing American clubhouse chief Collin Morikawa by seven photographs and with a combating likelihood of a weekend cost to the Wanamaker Trophy.
After beginning the day at over par, in eighty fifth spot and in peril of lacking the midway minimize, Lee birdied his first and third holes earlier than igniting his spherical along with his first hole-out from off the inexperienced on the par-4 sixteenth.
He additionally chipped in on the second and seventh holes after beginning on the again 9.
“It was simply a type of days the place it sort of went my approach. Yeah, they only dropped,” Lee stated.
“That undoubtedly helped the scorecard. However a bit extra strong than yesterday. Yesterday I simply had just a few missed iron photographs, and in the present day it was trending in the best route.
“Yeah, the chip-ins have been good, clearly, and people have been three birdies, so yeah, it was many of the rating – 16 was fairly particular.
“It was in deep tough into the grain and I used to be simply attempting to get it on the inexperienced shut, and it ended up stepping into.”
Champion in 2015 and runner-up in 2016, Day additionally gave himself an outdoor likelihood of contending on Sunday with a strong spherical containing only one bogey.
Lee and Day have been the main Australians in a tie for twenty fourth after the morning wave signed off.
