One year: Scottie Scheffler’s arrest and return to PGA championship

Charlotte, NC – Scottie Scheffler is not someone who likes to assess anything over the other, whether it’s a tournament that won or he played or shot.

It can allow the facts to speak for themselves for the wildest career day, who happened at the PGA championship last year.

Scheffler What handcuffs and placed in the back of the police car Outside the golf club of Valhall in the morning darkness. He took his fingerprints, stared at the camera that wore an orange jumpsuit for a shot and placed in a prison cell. He came out of jail and returned to the Golf Course 56 minutes ahead of time on time.

All of this in just over three hours. Shot 66.

“Pretty good,” Scheffler said with a smile. “It certainly was one of my best performance. I think it would be a really easy scenario to frustrate the situation or to be” Jao “the guy and be”, I can’t believe it happened. “

“Hit a few balls, in the course, bird the first hole and entered the circle,” he said. “I used everything I had in a good tank.”

A year later, the scene is no less surreal.

Red-blue lights from police cars flash like machines in dark rain. Pictures on ESPN – courtesy of journalists Jeff Darlington, who are also stuck in traffic – showing the master champion and no. 1 a handcuff player.

Police researched a traffic mortal bone, which includes a pedestrian, 69-year-old tournament volunteer John Mills. Scheffler was arrested because he does not follow the police instruction. He later is forged for an attack on the attack on the police officer and three violations.

Scheffler said when his circle ended up, “I feel like my head continues to spin.”

They were also in disbelief Brian Harman and Wyndham Clark, who played next to him. Harman fixed that the ice switch was fine.

“I said,” Yesterday was your first round like a father. Today, your first round is like a convict, “Harman said.” He laughed. We had fun to facilitate the mood. When something like that happens, I can’t imagine how stressful it is. “It’s bizarre.”

He may not have seen 66 coming from Scheffler.

“And that was a pure 5 underneath,” Harman said. “He returned him in touch.”

At four o’clock from his arrest, which included a rainy delay, some viewers have already wore “free Scottie” T-shirts. The best player in Golf Scheffler never had so much attention or heard so much support.

“He was visibly shaking on the first team,” Clark said. “And then the perfect Scottie fashion, the pipe in the middle and birds of the first hole. I just remember the friends with Scottie and we knew it was a modest situation – ‘, pull it out of the way.’ He told us 10. hole. I think he made her nerves for him.

“It was a crazy golf day.”

Scheffler collapsed the next day, which should be expected. He fell with 73 – his first round across the Status all year round – and in the end he was tied to the eighth.

“The craziest thing that day is that I didn’t eat basically all day,” Scheffler said. “I didn’t feel the need to eat. I had a couple of eggs for breakfast, but at that moment I couldn’t really put him down, just got him in my mouth.”

What about a sandwich offered to him in prison?

“No, I didn’t mean to eat that,” he said with laughter.

“I’m a big eater. I eat a lot of food,” Scheffler said. .

Scheffler likes to say what happened in the past has no impact on what is working today, although it usually refers to the results and results usually. Only a smooth weekly week in Charlotte can be hoped, especially out of the course.

A year ago, he entered PGA Championship by winning four of the last five tournaments, including the trailers of the players and masters. But he took three weeks before Valhalla is at home for the birth of his first child, boy named Bennett.

This year, it is completely different on so much level – miraculous hands on the Christmas day, not winning the master. But at least he arrives in Prepeal hollow gets off the victory – instead of a three-week break – when he Won eight shots in Dallas Two weeks ago.

“It will definitely vary in terms of preparation,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to take so much time before the big tournament, especially in the middle of the year. My preparation will be more in my normal routine.”

Normally. After last year in Valhalli, that’s all he should want on this PGA championship.