Scottie Scheffler Released After Arrest, Set To Play Second Round At PGA Championship

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Scottie Scheffler was arrested on a number of charges on Friday morning ahead of the second round of the PGA Championship, but has been released and is expected to tee it up on day two of the year's second major championship.

Early Friday morning, news broke that Scheffler had been put in handcuffs and detained in the back of a police car after he reportedly drove past a police officer who was telling him to stop as he made his way toward the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club. A list of charges, as well as a mugshot of the World's No. 1 player, was later released by the Louisville Metro Police Department.

Scheffler was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic.

Traffic was a major issue on Friday morning after a man was tragically struck and killed by a shuttle bus just outside the gates of the venue. 

Given the circumstances, it was unclear if Scheffler would make his 10:08 AM ET tee time, but as ESPN reported a little before 9:00 AM, he is expected to arrive in plenty of time and play on Friday.

ESPN's Jeff Darlington witnessed the Scheffler incident take place, and broke down exactly what he saw during Friday's edition of SportsCenter.

"Scottie Scheffler tried to enter Valhalla Golf Club by a side media, to which point a police officer instructed him to stop," Darlington explained. "Scheffler attempted to continue to go, the police officer then attached himself to the side of Scheffler's car. Scheffler stopped the vehicle as he turned into Valhalla Golf Club at the entrance about 10-20 yards from where the police officer first told him to stop."

"At that point, the police officer instructed Scheffler to get out of the car. There was probably 20-30 seconds where Scheffler sat in the car and did not move. He rolled down the window, and when he did roll down the window, the police officer grabbed (Scheffler's) arm and started pulling at it," Darlington said describing the officer approaching Scheffler's car.

"I believe he reached inside, opened the car door, pulled Scheffler out, immediately placed him in handcuffs at which point Scottie Scheffler seeing me behind him said ‘can you help.’"

"The police officer instructed me to step back, I told them I was a member of the media. A police officer turned to me and said ‘there’s nothing you can do, Scottie Scheffler is going to jail.'"

As we now know, the cop meant exactly what he said, as Scheffler did end up being booked.

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