Regardless of Getting His Fees Dropped, Scottie Scheffler Will get Dragged Into LPGA Professional’s Hilarious Dig: ‘Identical Yellow Jackets’

The banter round Scottie Scheffler’s arrest refuses to die down. After his PGA Tour friends, now an LPGA Professional joked concerning the notorious Might 17 fiasco. Jenny Shin was touring from her place to the Lancaster Nation Membership for the third spherical of the U.S. Ladies’s Open. The LPGA Professional had an 8 AM tee time, so by 6, she deliberate to reach on the course. 

Nonetheless, the safety officers in Yellow Jackets gave an odd Deja Vu. Shin tweeted, “It’s 5:36 am and I’m driving into our lot, A LOT of popos and safety guards sporting the identical yellow jackets, I had a momentary panic and forgot the place to go”. She additionally added two hashtags – ‘straighttojail’, and ‘iobeybecauseimnotscottie’ (I obey as a result of I’m not Scottie Scheffler). 

Notably, on Might 17, the day Scottie Scheffler was arrested, Shin requested, “Can somebody clarify to me what’s occurring with Scheffler” The ten-time PGA Tour winner was handcuffed exterior the gates of Valhalla for allegedly breaking a visitors blockade. Arresting officer Bryan Gillis famous in his police report, that Scheffler dragged him along with his automobile refusing to cease. Gillis suffered ‘ache’ and ‘abrasion’ on his knee and wrist. 

Nonetheless, all the costs had been dropped on Might 29. Jefferson County Lawyer Mike O’Connell accepted that his staff couldn’t transfer on with the proof out there. Bryan Gillis didn’t activate his bodycam whereas arresting Scheffler. 

On Might 29, Scottie Scheffler in an official assertion mentioned, “I maintain no sick will towards Officer Gillis. I want to put this incident behind me and transfer on, and I hope he’ll do the identical.” Gillis, in his assertion, maintained that he was injured, however quipped, “Sure, the division has us shopping for freaking $80 pants. To these involved, they had been certainly ruined. However Scottie, it’s all good. I by no means would’ve guessed I’d have essentially the most well-known pair of pants within the nation for just a few weeks due to this. Take care and be protected.”

Though Scheffler’s arrest stirred up the golf neighborhood, his friends appeared much less involved. Earlier, PGA Championship winner, Xander Schauffele too mentioned that Scheffler was topic to a variety of jokes on their Whatsapp group.

Scottie Scheffler was topic to ‘enjoyable’ poke by his PGA Tour friends

Xander Schauffele thought all the incident was only a imply prank. As a result of “The one factor he (Scottie Scheffler) hurts is a golf ball and different opponents’ emotions more often than not,” the 30-year-old mentioned at Golf’s Subpar podcast. Regardless, none had been keen to let it go with out a little pleasant banter. 

Schauffele, Scheffler, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth, and some different high PGA Tour execs share a standard physio, Marnus Marais. Sure, the identical one who massaged Scheffler’s neck at THE PLAYERS Championship. Schauffele revealed “It wasn’t like a imply poke. It was enjoyable. I imply, the mug shot was posted, you realize, after which somebody modified the title of the group chat, like, ‘Please make it tomorrow, Scottie,’ or one thing like that.”

Within the wake of Scheffler’s arrest, the social media channels had been flooded with memes. In reality, inside just a few hours of his detention, just a few followers arrived on the course with his mugshot printed on their tee shirts. Jenny Shin stored that development alive yet another week.

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