PGA Championship LIVE: Scottie Scheffler plays on despite arrest for ‘assaulting police officer’

Scottie Scheffler has spoken of his shock, confusion and worry after being arrested on his approach to the US PGA Championship on a surreal and tragic Friday morning.

Scheffler was detained by Louisville Metro Police after making an attempt to drive into the golf membership in heavy site visitors attributable to an earlier unrelated accident by which a pedestrian died after being struck by a shuttle bus.

Tournament officers stated they have been “devastated” by the demise of native man John Mills, who was working for an on-site vendor at Valhalla.

Scheffler, the world primary, faces expenses of second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree felony mischief, reckless driving and disregarding site visitors indicators from an officer directing site visitors.

-9: Scheffler, Detry, Hubbard, DeChambeau

-8: Hovland, Eckroat, Finau

-7: Koepka, MacIntyre, Matsuyama, Wallace, English

Darkness has known as a halt to the second-round motion on the PGA Championship, that means many should come again tomorrow morning to complete off their rounds.

DeChambeau, although, shortly wraps up his last gap with a par to get within the clubhouse at -9. An excellent six-under-par 65 from the LIV Golfer who isn’t one to disregard this weekend.

An actual kicker of a end for the one Scot within the subject as he finishes with two bogeys to drop out of the highest ten. It’s a heavy-handed putt from a downhill lie which races previous the outlet and he’s unable to make the putt again up the slope to avoid wasting par.

Still, a productive day and he’s nonetheless on course for an ideal end heading into the weekend.

Theegala -10 (67), Finau -8 (69)

A wild tee shot from Theegala thwarts his efforts of a closing birdie nevertheless it’s been an outstanding spherical from the American who is true within the thick of it. Finau, in the meantime, showcases some nice short-game contact to allow him to complete with a birdie and transfer again as much as -8.

A topsy-turvy spherical for him however don’t depend him out simply but.

A topsy-turvy spherical involves and finish with a birdie on the final for Koepka. It may have been so a lot better for the defending champion, however a slew of brief missed putts means he has to settle for a three-under-par 68 which leaves him 5 photographs off Schauffele on the high of the leaderboard.

The Scot is making an attempt to hold on down this closing stretch however is making life tough for himself. He’s wildly out of place on the seventh gap however in some way will get up and down from the thick tough to avoid wasting his par.

He can’t stop a dropped shot on the subsequent gap, although, and he drops again to -8 as he heads him his final.

A birdie on the final for Hovland and it’s an extremely encouraging second-round show from the Norwegian who has vaulted himself into competition after such a disappointing begin to the season.

The defending champions’ woes with the putter proceed. A bogey on 16 is compounded by one other on 17, the latter courtesy of a horrible brief miss.

On one other day, Koepka may have fired a six-under-par spherical and be proper within the thick of it, however his placing has let him down large time. He’d love a birdie on the final.

Like Woods, McIlroy finishes with a birdie on the par-5 18th. It’s a pleasant ending to what has in any other case been a totally irritating day for the Northern Irishman.

A level-par 71 is ok, however within the contest of this PGA Championship, the place the scores are low, it’s an enormous backward step. He’ll seemingly begin tomorrow seven photographs again of the lead and in want of an unbelievable weekend show if he’s to finish his main drought at Valhalla.