An attorney for professional golfer Scottie Scheffler said on Friday that the case against his client will either be dropped or they will take it to trial to fight it because his client “didn’t do anything wrong.”
The world’s No. 1 ranked golfer was booked into jail on multiple charges — including a felony — on Friday morning while trying to get into Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky, for the second round of the PGA Championship after there was an alleged misunderstanding with a police officer.
He was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving, and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic, according to a court document. The second-degree assault charge is a felony while the others are misdemeanors.
“Scottie was advised to go around and turn left into the facility to come and do his pre-round preparation. The officer who charged him obviously didn’t know that,” said Steve Romines, Scheffler’s lawyer. “And so, he did what he was instructed to do. And the officer who arresting didn’t think he was supposed to be doing that. And so that’s where the miscommunication occurred.”
Romines noted that Scheffler was in a marked courtesy vehicle with his credentials out when he drove up to the facility.
“I’ve got to talk to prosecutors,” he said. “[The charges will] either be dropped or we’ll go to trial because he didn’t do anything wrong. So we’re not interested in any sort of settlement negotiations or anything like that. He didn’t do anything wrong. It was just a big miscommunication.”
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He added that there was a “perfect storm of circumstances” in the area that heightened tensions, including a fatality that was down the road.
“One thing needs to be clear, he didn’t drive through any accident scene or any investigation,” he said. “None of that happened. That kind of misinformation is out there and that did not occur.”
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Scottie Scheffler’s lawyer, Steve Romines, clears up his client’s current legal situation following the events of Friday morning.
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