On the morning of May 17, Ted Scott discovered the biggest golf news of 2024 in much the same way as the rest of us.
Someone texted him to let his boss, World No. 1 Scottie Scottie Scheffler know, was arrested outside the Valhalla Golf Club while on his way to his second round match at the PGA Championship.
Scott shared his take on events on this week’s episode of GOLF Subpar with co-hosts Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz.
He and Scheffler were actually staying together just a mile away from the PGA Championship site. Scheffler left before his caddy, and just as Scott was getting ready to leave, he received a strange text from a friend.
“When I woke up, maybe 30 minutes after he was gone, I got a text from one of my friends and I said, ‘I’m sorry,'” Scott said. His first thought was that his friend felt sorry for Scott unable to play during the third round while returning home to attend his daughter’s high school graduation.
“I thought, it’s just a graduation. It’s not a big deal. So I put it in the text and he says, ‘No, Scottie.’ And I said, ‘Scottie, what?’ And he said, ‘Scottie was arrested.’
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“And I thought, yeah, right, you know, what are you talking about?
That’s when Scott said he saw the text from the PGA warning him for the accident that happened outside the golf course which eventually led to the dispute that landed Scheffler in prison.
“And I thought, ‘Oh my god, Scottie hit and killed somebody, like in his car,'” Scott recalled. “That was my first thought trying to put the two together. He accidentally hit someone. Oh my god, this is terrible.”
Fortunately, Scott soon learned that Scheffler was not involved in the accident that resulted in the death of a salesman while walking to Valhalla that morning. But he said it was still stressful making calls to Scheffler’s family and friends trying to figure out what he could do to help.
The thought crossed Scott’s mind that they wouldn’t end up making Scheffler’s late at 10:08 am tee time.
But thankfully, Scheffler was released just before 9 a.m. by Lousiville Metro PD and made it to Valhalla in time to play his second round, where he shot an incredible 66 and even said afterward that he lay in a jail cell .
Scheffler backed up during Round 3 and finished T8. His charges, which included three misdemeanors and one felony for allegedly assaulting a police officer, they were removed 12 days later.
The whole ordeal was just another example for Scott how strong Scheffler’s character is.
“It was really interesting to see his character shine through that situation and the truth came out,” he said. “And you know he had a good enough heart to not sue the city, you know, for what happened, which is very easy to do in that situation, to be emotional, because he knew he was going to affect the citizens of Louisville. .”
For more from Scott, including why he bets with Scheffler on the coursewatch the full episode of Subpar below.
