Scottie Scheffler returns to Valhalla after being released from jail
No one saw what happened on Friday morning outside of Valhalla Golf Club. After a pedestrian fatality caused a huge traffic jam outside of the PGA Championship, world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler attempted to navigate his way through traffic by traveling on a median. That move ended with him being arrested at 6:01 a.m. ET.
Scottie Scheffler was charged with felony assault of a police officer, criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding signals from officers directing traffic. The 27-year-old was booked by Louisville Metro Department of Corrections at 7:28 a.m. ET and released at 8:40 a.m. ET. Scheffler has a court date on Tuesday, May 21.
ESPN’s Jeff Darlington has reported that the Louisville Metro Police Department did not know who they were arresting and that Scheffler told the arresting officers that he did not know that they were police officers.
Now it looks like Scheffler will continue playing at the 2024 PGA Championship. The two-time Masters champion arrived at the course on Friday morning at 9:12 a.m. ET and has had his 8:48 a.m. ET tee time postponed to 10:08 p.m. ET thanks to a specific PGA rule giving him an exemption for missing his original tee time.
“He’s charged with assault second and criminal mischief and disregarding an officer’s signals,” Scheffler’s attorney Steve Romines said about the charges on Friday. “The assault second is actually a felony.”
KSR will provide full coverage of the PGA Championship and have updates throughout the day for this developing story.
PGA Championship Leaderboard
| Place | Player | Score |
| 1 | Xander Schauffele | -9 |
| T-2 | Tony Finau, Mark Hubbard, Sahith Theegala | -6 |
| T-5 | Tom Hoge, Joohyung Kim, Thomas Detry, Collin Morikawa, Maverick McNealy, Rory McIlroy, Robert MacIntyre, | -5 |
| T-12 | Alex Noren, Austin Eckroat, Scottie Scheffler, Ben Kohles, Brooks Koepka, Taylor Moore, | -4 |
| T-18 | Aaron Rai, Andrew Putnam, Harris English, Jason Dufner, Rasmus Hojgaard, Jesper Svensson, Alejandro Tosti, Martin Kaymer, Adam Hadwin, Viktor Hovland, Cameron Smith, Max Homa, Kurt Kitayama, Bryson DeChambeau | -3 |
| T-32 | Shane Lowry, Billy Horschel, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Luke List, Cameron Young, Thorbjorn Olesen, Patrick Reed, Seonghyun Kim, Doug Ghim, Lucas Herbert, Justin Thomas, Keegan Bradley, Jordan Spieth, Jeremy Wells, Dean Burmester | -2 |
| T-47 | Jordan L. Smith, Jesse Mueller, Nicolai Hojgaard, Jon Rahm, Brendon Todd, Patrick Cantlay, Luke Donald, Matt Wallace, Stephan Jaeger, Russell Henley, Adam Svensson, Justin Rose, Corey Conners, Hideki Matsuyama, Sami Valimaki, Patrick Rodgers, Adrian Otaegui, Tim Widing | -1 |
| T-65 | Keita Nakajima, Charley Hoffman, Talor Gooch, Jason Day, Francesco Molinari, Gary Woodland, Wyndham Clark, Keith Mitchell, Will Zalatoris, Emiliano Grillo, Braden Shattuck, Lucas Glover, Ryo Hisatune, Eric Cole, Byeong-Hun An, Alexander Bjork, Adam Schenk, Lee Hodges, Tyrrell Hatton, Sepp Straka, | E |
| T-85 | David Puig Currius, JT Poston, Min Woo Lee, Jimmy Walker, Rickie Fowler, Beau Hossler, Brian Harman, Brice Garnett, Sam Burns, Evan Bowser, Vincent Norman, Wyatt Worthington, Grayson Murray, Ryan Fox, Ludvig Aberg, Taylor Pendrith, Tiger Woods, Adam Scott, Peter Malnati, Tommy Fleetwood, Nick Taylor, Erik Van Rooyen, Kyle Mendoza | +1 |
| T-108 | Sebastian Soderberg, Kazuma Kobori, Josh Bevell, Denny McCarthy, Si Woo Kim, Chris Kirk, Joaquin Niemann, Sungjae Im, Brad Marek, CT Pan, Tyler Collet, Dustin Johnson, Zac Blair, Ben Polland, Akshay Bhatia, Jared Jones, Ben Griffin, Andy Ogletree | +2 |
| T-126 | Y.E. Yang, Phil Mickelson, Mackenzie Hughes, Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Chris Gotterup, Adrian Meronk, Alex Smalley, Josh Speight, Nick Dunlap, KH Lee, Andrew Svoboda | +3 |
| T-137 | Thriston Lawrence, Tracy Phillips, Jake Knapp, Ryan Van Velzen, Takumi Kanaya, Preston Cole | +4 |
| T-143 | Matt Dobyns, Matthieu Pavon, John Somers, Michael Block, Shaun Michael | +5 |
| T-148 | Padraig Harrington, Zac Oakley | +6 |
| 150 | Cameron Davis | +7 |
| T-151 | Rich Beem, Camilo Villegas, Larkin Gross, Victor Perez | +8 |
| 155 | John Daly | +11 |
| 156 | Jeffrey Kellen | +16 |
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