Scottie Scheffler was arrested by Louisville Metropolitan Police early Friday morning and faces four charges after a misunderstanding while trying to enter Valhalla Golf Club, the host of this week’s 106th playing of the PGA of America’s flagship event.
Scheffler was booked at 7:28 a.m. ET, released at 8:40 a.m. ET and finally made it to the course less than an hour before his tee time and still managed to shoot a 5-under 66 to walk off the course at 9 under, T-3 on the leaderboard, at the PGA Championship.
“It was just a huge misunderstanding this morning,” he said during his post-round session with the media. “That’ll get resolved I think fairly quickly. I came here for a golf tournament. I was driving in this morning, trying to get to my warmup time and get ready for the round of golf. I didn’t really have an understanding of what had transpired this morning. My main focus after getting arrested was wondering if I could be able to come back out here and play, and fortunately I was able to do that. It was nice to put together a solid round today for sure.”
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Here’s what some of his competitors said at Valhalla on Friday.