Yes, the cops are at fault for escalating what should have been a simple miscommunication issue with traffic control involving players vs public. But hey, at least that didn’t shoot him. So there’s that I guess.
The cops put him in an orange jumpsuit and charged him with a felony. A short time later he was released and the city of Louisville escorted him back to the course. He's about to tee off. So...yeah.
That jumpsuit BS was over the top for sure... but I was talking about the cops on the road, not the booking cops... or whatever they're called.
The big "knock" on Sheffler is that he is boring. He is just a straight forward, humble Clearly The Best player who just shows up and curb stomps the field on the course and won't say or do enough off of it so that people on this very thread have no idea that he is the best. Seriously doubtful that he is Dukes of Hazarding barricades and Mad Maxing cops on the hood.
ESPN was saying the cop "attached himself to the car" which seems like a completely psychotic thing to do to stop someone from entering a golf course
Apparently, there were some cops there for private event security and others were there to handle the traffic due to the earlier fatal accident. Players had been given instructions of how to enter the course which Scheffler was following and the police working as private security for the event were aware of. The arresting officer was not there for private security and was not aware of the procedures for players entering the course. Scheffler was not aware of the earlier accident. It is a bad miscommunication and the charges will almost certainly be quickly dropped.
As usual, you have the anti-police crowd weighing in heavily that it had to be the officer that was at fault. If traffic is backed up, as all you all know, officer's are tasked with traffic control management. NO ONE should be allowed to place other people, or themselves, in danger in order to get somewhere they need to be. If any vehicle, whether marked or not, by-passes a basic checkpoint, they automatically place themselves in a position of scrutiny. And it should not matter who is in the vehicle, as everyone stuck in traffic needed to get somewhere too, or they wouldn't have been on the road in the first place. I am a big Scheffler fan, but he could have easily called someone at the course to say he was stuck in traffic and was not going to get there in time. Hell, the golf course probably knew there was an accident and could have been communicating with local police to be on the look-out for golfers trying to get to the course. If they find out the officer was too aggressive once the stop was made, then he should be disciplined. However, Scheffler should also be held accountable for trying to by-pass traffic simply because he needed to get to the golf course.
Tiger was a household name before he even won his first major, which was at age 21. He was on TV shows when he was 2, like Bob Hope stuff. He was on multiple national shows before he hit double digits. He was a deserving phenom in the end, but it seemed a little hyperbolic at the time. Great, another preteen phenom. He did present as squeaky-clean off the course, but he also wore El Toro shirts, yelled and fist-pumped, theatrically twirled his club at the top when he killed one, popularized the "chase" move where he aggressively followed after a shot so that we all knew he had just pured another one, etc. And he could carry an interview. Sheffler is none of those things, other than the off the course boring. Ironically this may be just the thing that elevates his public stature. Bad Boy dragging the po-po son! OR, victim of overzealous KillBots. Perhaps he can have it both ways. Maybe sneak some Nike gear into a Chic-Fil-A ad or something.
Tiger was more famous, but most people thought of him as kind of nerdy and boring, until a particular Thanksgiving Day
The course did communicate with police. Players were allowed to bypass traffic and enter. Every other player got in without issue.
Agreed, but not ON the course. He was the biggest showman ever, that was actually good. Some other guys had the antics, but they couldn't win enough to be more than a gimmick. You tuned in to see what Tiger would do during the actual gameplay. I have never once made a point to get to a TV to see Sheffler. Reading the recap is just as exciting as seeing it happen.
I swear some people are absolutely incapable of even thinking about being critical of the police. I don’t understand it.
Unless players were told to show your credentials to the police working on the event security team and they would allow you to bypass event traffic and enter through the player's entrance. If you didn't know there had been an earlier accident you wouldn't know the difference from the event traffic. Then the officer you flashed your player credential to was not on the event security team but instead was there as an on duty cop working the accident and subsequent traffic. That is apparently what happened. Scottie thought he was doing the correct thing. The cop thought it was just an ordinary golf fan trying to get around traffic.
It's being reported that Scheffler drove onto a median to by-pass traffic. Not a smart move. So, I guess you're saying this one officer just decided to go after Scheffler for no apparent reason?
I figured a few might be like "damn if it can happen to a rich white guy, maybe it can happen to me."
