Scottie Scheffler looked somber while wearing an orange jail shirt in a mugshot photo after the world’s No. 1 golfer was arrested outside of Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., ahead of the second round of the PGA Championship on Friday.
The 27-year-old pro was booked and processed at 7:28 a.m. ET into metro corrections on four charges — assault of a police officer, criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding signals from officer directing traffic, according to jail records.
Scheffler was arrested “after refusing to stop at a traffic barricade trying to get into Valhalla. That traffic barricade was set up after a pedestrian was hit and killed by a shuttle bus,” a reporter for WDRB, a local Louisville outlet, wrote on X.
“The officer who asked Scottie Scheffler to stop at a police barricade has minor injuries after Scheffler refused to stop and dragged the officer with his car,” the reporter added in a follow-up post. “The barricade was set up after a pedestrian was hit and killed outside of Valhalla golf course at 5am.”
Scheffler was detained by police around 5:45 a.m. while trying to get into the golf course amid a separate, unrelated incident involving an accident and a fatality.
Scheffler was originally scheduled to play round two at 8:48 a.m. ET. The tournament was pushed back over an hour due to the accident and traffic.
His tee time now is shortly after 10 a.m. ET.
