What some golfers at 2024 PGA Championship said about Scottie Scheffler arrest, fatal car crash at Valhalla Golf Club

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.