CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Scottie Scheffler is not someone who likes to rate anything over the other, whether it’s a tournament he won, a round he played or a shot he hit.
He can let the facts speak for themselves on the craziest day of his golf career, which occurred at the PGA Championship last year.
Scheffler was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car outside the gates of Valhalla Golf Club in the morning darkness in Louisville, Kentucky. He had his fingerprints taken, stared into a camera wearing an orange jumpsuit for his mug shot and was put in a jail cell. He was released, then returned to the golf course 56 minutes before his tee time for the second round of year’s second major tournament.
All this in just more than three hours. He shot a 66 and was three strokes out of the lead.
“Pretty good,” Scheffler said with a smile. “It was definitely one of my best performances, for sure. I think it would have been a really easy scenario to get frustrated with the situation or have a ‘woe is me’ type of moment and be like, ‘I can’t believe this has happened.’