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John Clay: On tragic day at PGA Championship, Scottie Scheffler became the story after the story

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Friday at the PGA Championship should have been all about John Mills. Instead, it was all about Scottie Scheffler.

Mills was the security guard working the championship at the Valhalla Golf Club who died after being hit by a shuttle bus at 5:09 a.m. along Shelbyville Road while attempting to enter the course.

Scheffler was ...Read more

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Marcus Hayes: Jailbird Scottie Scheffler shoots 5-under after his arrest Friday morning. Legend.

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PHILADELPHIA — It might be the greatest round of golf ever played.

Scottie Scheffler was arrested on a dark and rainy Friday morning outside of Valhalla Golf Club for allegedly ignoring traffic directions and dragging a police officer with his vehicle as Scheffler tried to enter the club by avoiding a traffic jam caused by a pedestrian ...Read more

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Could Louisville's mayor and Kentucky Gov. Beshear be stung politically by Scheffler incident?

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LEXINGTON, Ky. — Friday morning’s arrest of the world’s top golfer entering the PGA Championship complex in Louisville is quickly becoming a potential political headache for that city’s mayor and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.

A long-troubled police department, a city looking to regain its groove hosting the PGA Championship and Scottie ...Read more

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Scottie Scheffler arrested in alleged assault of officer outside PGA Championship. He still played and shot a five-under 66.

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Scottie Scheffler got to tee off Friday at the PGA Championship, hours after being arrested for allegedly injuring a police officer on his way to Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky.

The world’s No. 1 golfer was arrested after allegedly ignoring police who directed traffic caused by a bus hitting and killing a pedestrian earlier. Scheffler, ...Read more

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No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested after incident outside PGA Championship; returns to Valhalla for start of 2nd round

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A chaotic scene outside of the PGA Championship early Friday led to the arrest of top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler, who reportedly faces multiple charges.

The incident began when Scheffler attempted to drive around the scene of a crash near the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., according to ESPN’s Jeff Darlington, who witnessed the ...Read more

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No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested after incident outside PGA Championship; returns to Valhalla, Louisville, for start of 2nd round

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A chaotic scene outside of the PGA Championship early Friday led to the arrest of top-ranked golfer Scottie Scheffler, who reportedly faces multiple charges.

The incident began when Scheffler attempted to drive around the scene of a crash near the Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., according to ESPN’s Jeff Darlington, who witnessed the ...Read more

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World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested outside PGA Championship

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World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler was arrested Friday morning near Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., where he was scheduled to play in the second round of the PGA Championship.

Scheffler, who won the Masters last month, was booked by the Louisville Metro Police Department at 7:28 a.m. EDT on four charges: second-degree assault of a ...Read more

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No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested after incident outside PGA Championship

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Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked golfer, was arrested and reportedly hit with multiple charges, including second-degree assault of a police officer, after an incident early Friday outside of the PGA Championship.

The chaos unfolded when Scheffler allegedly attempted to drive around the scene of a crash near the Valhalla Golf Club in ...Read more

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Will Tiger Woods miss the PGA Championship cut after one-over-par first round?

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Tiger Woods bogeyed the last two holes and was tied for 55th after shooting a first-round 72 at the PGA Championship on Thursday.

The problem is, he played in the morning and a slew of golfers were early in their rounds when he finished. Many are expected to log better scores than his 1-over par, meaning he'll have to greatly improve in the ...Read more

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Xander Schauffele steals show as Valhalla crowds flock to see Justin Thomas, Tiger Woods

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When the tee times for the first round of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club were announced Tuesday, it was easy to see where the most fan attention would be directed.

Teeing off in back-to-back groups were Louisville native and two-time PGA Championship winner Justin Thomas and golfing legend Tiger Woods. ...Read more

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Who are the biggest long shots to have won the PGA Championship?

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LAS VEGAS — When Phil Mickelson became the oldest golfer ever to win a major at age 50 at the 2021 PGA Championship, he also became the biggest long shot to win the event in the 21st century.

Four of the five biggest long shots to win the PGA Championship have cashed tickets in the past 15 years, according to sportsoddshistory.com, which has ...Read more

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Who should you bet on for 2024 PGA Championship in Louisville? 5 picks we like at Valhalla.

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Less than two weeks after a thrilling 150th edition of the Kentucky Derby, another premier, annual American sports event is taking place in Louisville, Ky.

The 106th edition of the PGA Championship — the second men’s professional golf major of the year — will be played from Thursday to Sunday at Valhalla Golf Club.

This is the fourth ...Read more

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Ex-Augusta National employee pleads guilty to stealing Arnold Palmer's green jacket in $5.3 million Masters memorabilia scheme

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CHICAGO — An ex-employee of Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia pleaded guilty in federal court in Chicago on Wednesday to stealing golf legend Arnold Palmer’s green jacket as part of a 13-year scheme to illegally fence more than $5 million worth of Masters Tournament memorabilia.

Richard Brendan Globensky, 39, of Augusta, Ga., entered ...Read more

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Bryce Miller: PGA Championship gets its turn in spicy tussle between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

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SAN DIEGO — The spiciest of the mud-slinging, back-stabbing, greed-soaked reality shows hits overdrive this week. It's not the Real Housewives of Poway. Forget the 177th season of "Survivor."

It's golf, the supposedly refined, civilized and well-mannered game.

When the PGA Championship tees off at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky., on ...Read more

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What are sharp handicappers recommending as their PGA best bets?

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LAS VEGAS — Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka enter the PGA Championship in top form, with each of them winning their last start.

Scheffler and McIlroy are the only golfers in single-digit odds to win the year’s second major, which tees off Thursday at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Xander Schauffele and Koepka are ...Read more

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Jim Alexander: At PGA Championship, club pros get their moment

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The idea of a club pro teeing it up among the stars of professional golf isn’t quite a fish-out-of-water scenario. But it’s close.

There will be 21 such entrants in this week’s PGA Championship, the second of the year’s four majors, at Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Ky. Their existence, as day-to-day representatives of their sport, ...Read more

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Rory McIlroy files for divorce in Florida

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MIAMI — They haven’t been pictured together in months or appeared on each other’s social media.

And now, we hear Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll, who own a $10 million mansion at the Bear’s Club in Jupiter, are getting a divorce.

The pro golfer was the one who did the filing, on Monday, in Palm Beach County, according to court records. ...Read more

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Rory roars once more: McIlroy's monster Sunday nets him his 4th win at Wells Fargo

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On a gorgeous Mother’s Day Sunday at the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele staged one mother of a duel for two hours.

In the final twosome, in what felt like a match-play format, they entered the final nine holes dead even.

But then McIlroy showed why he’s the best player this golf tournament has ...Read more

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At Wells Fargo, Xander Schauffele in position for revenge, but Rory McIlroy is closing

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Xander Schauffele will sleep on the lead after three rounds of play at the Wells Fargo Championship, and he’ll have plenty to think about.

Schauffele shot a 1-under-par 70 Saturday at Quail Hollow but lost three strokes off the four-shot lead he began the day with. He leads World No. 2 Rory McIlroy by one shot.

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Xander Schauffele, Rory McIlroy battling it out at Wells Fargo Championship

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If Xander Schauffele has any intricate details about Quail Hollow Club that gives him an upper hand, he’s not ready to unveil them just yet.

“I don’t know,” Schauffele said Friday. “I wish I could tell you. It’s a big golf course. You’ve got to execute shots. I don’t know, maybe it’s so hard it makes you ...Read more