re: World Number 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested UPDATE: Arresting officer is former NOPD

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Valhalla can forget hosting a a major for a few decades now.

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I think this is probably my biggest takeaway.

From what I’ve read, traffic control/access was already a shite show. You have a pedestrian killed by a shuttle bus right outside the entrance to the club. Chances are pretty good that the pedestrian, the shuttle bus, or (more likely) both were there because of the event.

Then a cop who is directing traffic - but apparently hadn’t been directing traffic for the event up to that point - arrests the number one player who is trying to enter the event in a marked PGA courtesy car based on the instruction he had received previously about going around the traffic. The cops double down and actually book him.

Now it’s a national news story, an embarrassment for the city, and an even bigger shite show that ultimately leads to the PGA having to push the event’s start time.

When you add it all up, I would think the PGA is going to seriously consider whether the city is capable of handling this event in the future. Regardless of whether Scheffler handled the situation appropriately, the whole thing will be a black eye for Louisville. The economic impact to the city will be much larger than whatever Scheffler winds up having to pay his attorney to make it go away.