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Scottie Scheffler starts day in jail, now has chance to win in midst of chaos

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Perspective was even harder to come by than birdies through all the raindrops, bourbon and cigar smoke that streamed across golf’s biggest stage Friday during one of the sport’s most bizarre mornings ever.

By the time the world’s best player, Scottie Scheffler, had been booked into jail, had his mug shot taken, his police statement recorded, his release secured, entrepreneurs near Valhalla Golf Club were already selling “Free Scottie” T-shirts outside. Fans, some of them self-proclaimed Scottie lovers, were already wearing them inside.

And by the time Scheffler walked off the course, remarkably tied for third place at the PGA Championship after a round that looked as efficient as any he’s played of late, he had chipped away, birdie by birdie, at the notion that the pre-dawn scuffle with police, the trip downtown, that jail-issued orange shirt, or any of the endless snark and commentary that surrounded all of this would slow him down.

Was it a classic case of mind over matter? Or another illustration of the public’s ever-growing thirst for a round-the-clock reality-show life? Depends on who you ask.

“It’s just amazing how you come out here after something like that, put that all aside and make a birdie on the first hole,” said Dean Adams, a golf fan who drove up from Nashville, Tennessee, with friends and was waiting for the world’s top-ranked golfer near the 14th green.

Scheffler made five more birdies after that and shot 5-under 66.

Every time a putt dropped, or a shot was hit, chants of “Scott-eee, Scott-eee” and “Free Scott-eee” pierced across the drizzle-dampened, mud-caked country club. Two fans lifted their bourbon drinks after a nice approach to the 12th green at around 11 a.m. and shouted “Here’s one for Scottie.”

“As far as best rounds of my career, I would say it was pretty good,” said Scheffler, who has won four times already this year, including at the Masters. “I definitely never imagined ever going to jail, and I definitely never imagined going to jail the morning before one of my tee times.”

Amazing as Scheffler’s ability was to separate his off-course trouble from his on-course performance, this was more than a story about a great athlete’s mindset or a remarkable day on the links.

The episode was triggered when a worker for a PGA vendor, 69-year-old John Mills, was hit and killed by an oncoming bus as he tried to cross through traffic outside the golf course in the slickened, pre-dawn darkness.

Police reported that the officer who tried to stop Scheffler as he hurried to the course ended up in the hospital after he was dragged to the ground when the car Scheffler was driving “accelerated forward.”

Scheffler called it “a chaotic situation and a big misunderstanding.” He used some of his time in the holding cell to stretch.

“That was a first for me,” he said.

To see that this was about more than golf was to take a stroll through the Kentucky rain and mix in with the umbrella-toting, neck-craning crowd that lined up 10 deep in spots.

Fans wore orange jumpsuits and another popular T-shirt selection, these ones plastered with Scheffler’s freshly taken mug shot.

Scottie Scheffler arrested before the start of PGA Championship Round 2

Scottie Scheffler arrested before the start of PGA Championship Round 2

They checked their phones for the latest hot take in what quickly became a second-by-second battle across social media to be fresher, funnier, more inappropriate.

Almost all the memes — like the photoshopped image of Scheffler wearing his green jacket from the Masters over his orange jumpsuit from jail — were some level of tasteless.

They spoke more about the world we live in than Scheffler’s travails, which are likely to drag past Sunday when the tournament ends and this circus leaves town.

“The conclusion you can draw is that any time you have a famous person involved in any incident that’s outside the norm of, like, eating three meals a day, it’s fodder for the most outrageous claims that can be made or things that can be said,” said Dennis Deninger, a sports communication professor at Syracuse University.

“They are almost always based on little or no facts.”

One beautiful thing about sports is how that ever-present scoreboard displays only the facts. As he left the course on Friday, the fact was that Scheffler has a very good chance to win this thing.

And yet, this was another one of those days when a sports story cascaded well beyond a scoreboard spelling things out in black and white.

“He’s the best guy out there right now, both as a player and a person,” said John Glenwood of Louisville, as he waited for Scheffler to pass on the 17th fairway. “We’re here to support him.”

His friends standing next to him, who didn’t want their names used, agreed. They said they were big Scheffler fans.

One was wearing an orange jumpsuit he bought that morning; the other two were in their brand-new “Free Scottie” T-shirts that might become the 2024 PGA Championship’s most-remembered souvenir.

Reporting by The Associated Press.

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