{"id":483185,"date":"2024-05-17T11:14:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483185"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:14:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T15:14:07","slug":"scheffler-arrested-before-the-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/scheffler-arrested-before-the-pga-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler arrested before the PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top-ranked golfer, Scottie Scheffler, was arrested by Louisville Metro Police today after trying to drive into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic outside the venue had been stopped after a man was struck and killed by a shuttle bus in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>The world number 1 faces charges of 2<sup>nd<\/sup>-degree assault of a policeman, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals.<\/p>\n<p>The city major revealed Scottie was released without bail after that and that the golfer had arrived at Valhalla minutes before he was scheduled to play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the morning morning, I was doing what the police officers told me to,&#8221; the world number 1 announced. &#8220;It was not an easy episode, understandably because of the tragic accident that happened before that, and there was a miscommunication about what I believed I was being told to do. It was not my intention to disregard any of the instructions. I will do everything possible to put this to the side and focus on playing at the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cRight now, he\u2019s going to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Truly extraordinary video of Scottie Scheffler being arrested this morning at Valhalla Golf Club. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g7983d54g5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/g7983d54g5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daniel Hussey (@DanielHussey2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielHussey2\/status\/1791429226593198530?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top-ranked golfer, Scottie Scheffler, was arrested by Louisville Metro Police today after trying to drive into the entrance of Valhalla Golf Club. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":483186,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18544,16988,17434],"news_category":[16713,14084],"gn_keywords":[18616,22858,7308],"acf":{"announce":"The world number 1 golfer was arrested before the 2nd round.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483187,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483185\/revisions\/483187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483185"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483185"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}