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Police: Officer dragged trying to stop Scottie Scheffler's car.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The police officer who attempted to stop world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler from entering Valhalla Golf Club on Friday morning was dragged to the ground and suffered "pain, swelling and abrasions" to his left wrist and knee after Scheffler's car accelerated, according to an incident report released by the Louisville Metro Police Department.The report, a copy of which was obtained by ESPN, said the officer, identified as Det. Gillis, was directing traffic at Shelbyville Road, near Gate 1 of Valhalla Golf Club, the site of this week's PGA Championship. Traffic outside the golf course had been stopped after a man was struck and killed by a shuttle bus around 5 a.m. ET.
The report said Gillis was standing in the middle of the westbound lanes when Scheffler's SUV pulled into the lanes to avoid backed-up traffic. The report said Gillis was wearing a full police uniform and a "high-visibility yellow reflective rain jacket."
Gillis stopped Scheffler's SUV and attempted to give instructions, according to the report.
"The subject refused to comply and accelerated forward, dragging Detective Gillis to the ground," the report said.
Gillis was transported to a hospital by emergency medical personnel for evaluation. The report said his uniform pants were also damaged beyond repair.
Scheffler faces charges of second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic. The assault charge is a felony; the others are misdemeanors.
An arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday morning at 9 a.m. ET.
Maj. Jason Logsdon of the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections told ESPN that Scheffler was released at 8:40 a.m. ET Friday without bail. He arrived at Valhalla less than an hour before he was scheduled to tee off at 10:08 a.m. ET.
"This morning, I was proceeding as directed by police officers," Scheffler said in a statement. "It was a very chaotic situation, understandably so considering the tragic accident that had occurred earlier, and there was a big misunderstanding of what I thought I was being asked to do. I never intended to disregard any of the instructions. I'm hopeful to put this to the side and focus on golf today.
Of course, all of us involved in the tournament express our deepest sympathies to the family of the man who passed away in the earlier accident this morning. It truly puts everything in perspective."
According to ESPN reporter Jeff Darlington, who witnessed the incident, Scheffler was trying to drive around the crash scene. At one point, according to Darlington, Gillis attached himself to the side of Scheffler's car. Scheffler stopped his car as he turned into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club.
After about 20 to 30 seconds, Scheffler rolled down his window to talk to the officer. The officer grabbed Scheffler's arm to pull him out of the vehicle, according to Darlington. The officer reached inside the vehicle to open the door, and once Scheffler was pulled out, he was pushed against the car and placed in handcuffs.
Darlington was standing at the entrance when Scheffler was detained. Darlington said Scheffler turned to him and asked, "Can you help?"
According to Darlington, an officer instructed him to back away.
Scheffler's attorney, Steven Romines, told ESPN that the golfer attempted to enter Valhalla Golf Club as he had been instructed to earlier, unaware there had been a fatal wreck just up the road.
"He was going into Valhalla to work out," Romines said. "He was getting ready for his tee time. They were directing traffic. He held his credential out and was going in like they'd been instructed to. Apparently, there had been a traffic accident, maybe even a fatality, down the road, and that had changed the traffic patterns, and he was unaware of that."
Romines, speaking outside the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections, said the officer who attempted to stop Scheffler wasn't part of the regular event-traffic detail at Valhalla Golf Club, "so that's where the miscommunication arose."
"They are allowed to go through, that's why they have the credential and the wave-through," Romines said. "He was unaware there had been a wreck, and he proceeded like they'd been instructed to. He did exactly as he was instructed to enter the premises."
Romines said Scheffler would cooperate fully with police, and "we'll deal with it as it progresses."
Tiger Woods misses cut at 2024 PGA Championship.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- After posting his 11th consecutive round of par or worse in a major championship with a 6-over 77 in the second round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club on Friday, Tiger Woods is headed home on the weekend again.With a 36-hole total of 7-over 149, Woods was well above the projected cut line of 1-under 141. In his past 22 starts in majors, he has missed the cut 10 times and withdrawn twice.
Still, the 15-time major champion says he's getting stronger from injuries suffered in a car wreck in February 2021 and believes his game will get better as well.
Woods, 48, said he plans to play in the next major, the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina on June 13-16.
"It will -- in time," Woods said of the possibility of his game improving. "I need to play more. Unfortunately, I just haven't played a whole lot of tournaments, and not a whole lot of tournaments on my schedule either. Hopefully, everything will somehow come together in my practice sessions at home and be ready for Pinehurst."
The round couldn't have started much worse for Woods, who made par on the first and then made a mess of the par-4 second. After knocking his drive into the left rough, Woods hit his second shot into the rough and his third into a bunker. Then he skulled a shot across the green and into another bunker, chipped out to 20½ feet and two-putted for a triple-bogey.
After three-putting for a bogey on the par-3 third, Woods recorded his second triple-bogey in three holes on the short par-4 fourth. He was only 75 yards from the hole after his drive -- but didn't reach the green until his fifth shot. His third went into a bunker, and he couldn't get out of the sand with his fourth. He blasted his ball out and two-putted from 11½ feet. Woods was 7 over after four holes in the round.
It was the first time in Woods' 1,344 rounds in his PGA Tour career that he had multiple triple-bogeys, according to ESPN Stats & Information research.
Coming into Friday, Woods had carded just one triple-bogey in his previous 22 PGA Championship appearances -- on the sixth hole in the third round of the 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"Well, I got off to a bad start and the rough grabbed me at 2," Woods said. "No sand in the bunker as well. Just made a mistake there. I compounded the problem there at 4. Just kept making mistakes and things you can't do, not just in tournaments but in majors especially. And I just kept making them. I hung around for most of the day but unfortunately the damage was done early."
After that debacle, Woods settled down to card pars on his next two holes. On the par-5 seventh, he chipped to 8 feet and made a birdie putt. The highlight of the round came when he nearly aced the par-3 eighth -- his ball stopped 4 inches from the cup for another birdie to move him back to 5 over.
But Woods' momentum stalled quickly when he carded back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 11 and 12.
After so much damage early in the round, Woods went 1 under over the final 14 holes. He made a birdie on the par-5 18th, after pulling his approach shot into the fans. From 98 feet in the rough, he chipped to 4 feet and made the putt.
"Just keep fighting," Woods said. "Keep the pedal on, keep fighting, keep grinding, keep working hard at posting the best score that I can possibly post today. That's all I can do. It's going to be a lot, but I'm going to fight until the end."
Woods wasn't the only star headed home after 36 holes. Reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark (4 over), Phil Mickelson (4 over), Adam Scott (3 over), Sam Burns (3 over), Matt Fitzpatrick (even), Jon Rahm (even) and Ludvig Åberg (even) were also projected to miss the cut.
| Saturday, May 18, 2024 | |||||||
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| 720001 | Xander Schauffele | +275 | |||||
| 720002 | Scottie Scheffler | +305 | |||||
| 720003 | Collin Morikawa | +525 | |||||
| 720004 | Bryson DeChambeau | +1000 | |||||
| 720005 | Sahith Theegala | +1400 | |||||
| 720006 | Brooks Koepka | +1500 | |||||
| 720007 | Viktor Hovland | +2000 | |||||
| 720008 | Rory McIlroy | +3300 | |||||
| 720009 | Tony Finau | +4000 | |||||
| 720010 | Thomas Detry | +4500 | |||||
| 720011 | Hideki Matsuyama | +5000 | |||||
| 720016 | Dean Burmester | +7000 | |||||
| 720015 | Austin Eckroat | +10000 | |||||
| 720012 | Justin Thomas | +10000 | |||||
| 720014 | Mark Hubbard | +10000 | |||||
| 720013 | Robert MacIntyre | +10000 | |||||
| 720017 | Harris English | +12500 | |||||
| 720018 | Max Homa | +15000 | |||||
| 720019 | Taylor Moore | +15000 | |||||
| 720021 | Keegan Bradley | +20000 | |||||
| 720020 | Matt Wallace | +20000 | |||||
| 720022 | Byeong Hun An | +25000 | |||||
| 720025 | Cam Smith | +25000 | |||||
| 720023 | Jordan Spieth | +25000 | |||||
| 720024 | Patrick Cantlay | +25000 |
Leaders tee off at 1:40...1:30
I put 50 on Bryson DeChambeau at +1000
Lowry on fire
-9 on the day
Shane Lowry just matched the Men’s Major Championship scoring record with a 62.
-9 on the day
Shane Lowry just matched the Men’s Major Championship scoring record with a 62.
Louisville PD confirms no bodycam video of Scheffler arrest.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department confirmed to ESPN on Saturday that the officer who arrested world No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler outside the gates of Valhalla Golf Club early Friday didn't have his bodycam video recorder activated during the incident.Earlier Saturday, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told the Louisville Courier-Journal that he wasn't certain if Detective Bryan Gillis was wearing a bodycam at the time of the traffic stop, but that it wasn't turned on if he was. Greenberg said there was footage captured from a fixed camera across the street, which would be released in the coming days.
In a response to ESPN on Saturday, a public information officer for Louisville police said Greenberg's statement was accurate.
There is no body-worn camera footage of the initial encounter," the police spokesman said in an email. "The incident is under review internally and will proceed through the judicial process. We would like to restate that all parties involved are fully cooperating. LMPD is committed to a thorough investigation for all involved."
The public information officer also emailed a copy of the department's standard operating procedures for body-worn cameras (BWC), which were revised in December 2022. Section 4.31.6 of the procedures states that officers are required to "maintain their BWC in a constant state of operational readiness."
"The BWC will be used to record all calls for service and law enforcement activities/encounters (e.g. arrests, citations, stops, pursuits, Code 3 operations/responses, searches, seizures, interviews, identifications, use of force incidents, collisions, transports, warrants, official conversations on departmental smartphones, etc.)," the procedures said. "Members are mandated to adhere to the following procedures in order to capture law enforcement-related activity."
The procedures further state that officers "will immediately activate their BWC in recording mode prior to engaging in all law enforcement activities or encounters."
When ESPN asked if Gillis was supposed to have his BWC activated when he encountered Scheffler, the spokesman replied, "What we have shared with you is what is available at this time."
There is a dispute to what happened in the minutes before Scheffler was arrested. Traffic was backed up following a fatal accident around 5 a.m. ET Friday, in which an employee of a vendor was struck and killed by a bus while trying to cross the road to Valhalla, the site of this week's PGA Championship.
A police incident report said Gillis was standing in the middle of the westbound lanes when Scheffler's SUV pulled into the lanes to avoid traffic. The report said Gillis was wearing a full police uniform and a "high-visibility yellow reflective rain jacket."
Gillis stopped Scheffler's SUV and attempted to give him instructions. The report said Scheffler "refused to comply and accelerated forward, dragging Detective Gillis to the ground."
Gillis was transported to a hospital by emergency medical personnel for evaluation. According to the report, he suffered "pain, swelling and abrasions" to his left wrist and knee. His pants were also damaged beyond repair.
Scheffler, 27, faces charges of second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic. The assault charge is a felony; the others are misdemeanors.
Scheffler was booked into jail Friday morning and released without bail at 8:40 a.m. ET. An arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET.
When a Courier-Journal reporter asked Greenberg whether the charges against Scheffler would be dismissed, the mayor said, "Right now, the case is in the hands of our county attorney, and we'll let the legal process play out."
Scheffler returned to Valhalla and played in the second round. After shooting a 66, he called the incident a "big misunderstanding" and a "chaotic situation."
"That'll get resolved, I think fairly quickly," Scheffler said Friday.
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| 6988 | The Field | +109 |
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| 730101 | Xander Schauffele | -450 | |||||
| 730102 | Collin Morikawa | -350 | |||||
| 730104 | Sahith Theegala | -150 | |||||
| 730106 | Bryson DeChambeau | -140 | |||||
| 730103 | Viktor Hovland | -125 | |||||
| 730105 | Shane Lowry | +125 | |||||
| 730107 | Justin Rose | +300 | |||||
| 730108 | Robert MacIntyre | +300 | |||||
| 730109 | Dean Burmester | +400 | |||||
| 730110 | Justin Thomas | +450 | |||||
| 730112 | Tony Finau | +650 | |||||
| 730111 | Rory McIlroy | +800 | |||||
| 730113 | Harris English | +900 | |||||
| 730115 | Austin Eckroat | +1100 | |||||
| 730116 | Thomas Detry | +1100 | |||||
| 730117 | Lee Hodges | +1400 | |||||
| 730114 | Scottie Scheffler | +1500 | |||||
| 730118 | Keegan Bradley | +1800 | |||||
| 730119 | Taylor Moore | +2000 | |||||
| 730120 | Jordan Spieth | +2200 | |||||
