https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/05/17/scottie-scheffler-police-pga-championship/
This is a developing story
Scottie Scheffler, the top-ranked golfer in the world, was handcuffed and detained by Louisville police Friday morning, for a traffic-related incident as he was attempting to enter Valhalla Golf Club for the second round of the PGA Championship.
Tournament officials delayed the start of Friday’s round by an 1 hour, 20 minutes, but Scheffler’s status was uncertain and it wasn’t clear Friday morning whether the world’s most dominant player would be on the tee box for the second round of the year’s second major championship.
Traffic entering the golf club was backed up because of an overnight fatal traffic accident. Scheffler attempted to navigate around traffic and bypass a heavy police presence to reach the course, according to an ESPN report. ESPN aired video of Scheffler wearing handcuffs being escorted by two officers to a police cruiser.
“Right now he’s going to jail,” an officer told ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington on the scene.
According to the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections, Scheffler was booked at 8:28 a.m. Eastern time and assigned inmate No. 00654436. There was no immediate information on pending charges of his release. A mug shot posted online Friday morning depicted an unsmiling Scheffler wearing a jail-issued orange jumpsuit.
A Louisville police spokesman did not immediately respond to a request to comment. The shocking morning detainment started with an accident around 5 a.m. In a statement, police say they responded to a call of a vehicle collision involving a pedestrian and a bus.
“Our preliminary investigation found that an adult male pedestrian was crossing Shelbyville Road south to north when he was struck by a shuttle bus that was traveling eastbound in the compulsory center lane dedicated for buses,” the statement said.
The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
Vehicles, pedestrians and police near the entrance of the Valhalla Golf Club before the delayed start of the second round of the PGA Championship.
The accident caused a backup entering the course. Darlington reported that Scheffler drove past a police officer who had asked the golfer to stop. An officer attached himself to the side of Scheffler’s car. After the car stopped, an officer banged a flash light on car, Darlington reported, before pulling Sheffler out of the vehicle, putting him against the vehicle and placed him in handcuffs.