Scottie Scheffler, the highest golfer on the planet, was arrested Friday and charged with felony assault on a police officer and reckless driving exterior of a PGA championship occasion in Kentucky.

Scheffler, 27, was detained after he was seen driving on a median towards the doorway to Valhalla Golf Membership, the positioning of the occasion, and initially failing to heed an officer’s order for him to cease, in keeping with an ESPN reporter who witnessed the incident.

Site visitors exterior the doorway was reportedly stopped after a person was hit and killed by a shuttle bus earlier that morning.

Scheffler was launched from the Louisville facility with out bail shortly earlier than 9 a.m. ET, in keeping with native NBC affiliate WAVE.

“We’ll simply let all of it play out, that is the extent of what we all know. It is shifting fairly quick presently, however we’ll litigate the case because it comes,” Scheffler’s lawyer, Steve Romines, advised reporters after the golfer’s launch.

Scheffler is ready to tee off at 10:08 a.m. ET from the tenth gap for the second day of the championship, in keeping with the PGA’s web site for the occasion.

Scheffler arrived at Valhalla round 9:10 a.m. ET, giving him lower than an hour to organize earlier than his scheduled tee time.

A spokesperson for the PGA didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.

The ESPN reporter, Jeff Darlington, mentioned Friday morning that he noticed Scheffler “detained by cops, positioned behind a police automobile in handcuffs after he tried to tug round what he believed to be safety.”

“When he did not cease the police officer connected himself to the automobile, Scheffler then traveled one other 10 yards earlier than stopping the automobile,” Darlington mentioned on ESPN’s “Sports activities Heart.”

“The police officer then grabbed at his arm trying to tug him out of the automobile earlier than Scheffler ultimately opened the door at which level the police officer pulled Scheffler out of the automobile pushed him up in opposition to the automobile and instantly positioned him in handcuffs,” Darlington mentioned.

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