"Sorry for partying." -Thorbjorn Olesen

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Danish golfer Thorbjorn Olesen was arrested Monday in London after allegedly sexually assaulting a female passenger on a British Airways flight, according to a report.

Olesen, 29, was busted on suspicion of sexual assault after fellow golf pro Ian Poulter tried to calm down the “slightly intoxicated” golfer while aboard a flight from Nashville to Heathrow Airport after both competed in the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational in Memphis last week, The Sun reports.

Poulter tried to pacify Olesen after he allegedly got verbally abusive with other passengers and flight crew, but Poulter then went to sleep – at which point Olesen allegedly molested the woman. He also urinated in the aisle of the airplane, one witness told The Sun.

“He started abusing some of the passengers and crew and then made a pass at one of the female passengers before taking a leak in the aisle,” the witness recalled. “It was shocking behavior. You would expect it maybe on a budget airline but not in the first-class cabin on [British Airways].”

Olesen, who turned pro in 2008, was later met by Metropolitan Police at Heathrow, where he was arrested on charges of suspicion of sexual assault, being intoxicated aboard an aircraft and failing to comply with the orders of cabin crew, according to the report.

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