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FILE - Robert Allenby, of Australia, talks to the media at a practice round for the Phoenix Open golf tournament, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, in Scottsdale, Ariz. Scottie Scheffler's arrest hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship in Louisville will go down as one of the most shocking in professional golf history. It certainly wasn't the first, though. Allenby was arrested outside of a casino in Rock Island, Illinois, hours after he missed the cut in the 2016 John Deere Classic. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri, File)

Scottie Scheffler isn't the first pro golfer to be arrested during a tournament

Scottie Scheffler’s arrest hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship in Louisville will go down as one of the most shocking in pro golf history

By Eric Olson
Published - May 17, 2024, 01:44 PM ET
Last Updated - May 27, 2024, 12:31 AM EDT

Scottie Scheffler's arrest hours before his second-round tee time at the PGA Championship in Louisville, Kentucky, will go down as one of the most shocking in professional golf history. It certainly wasn't the first, though.

Tiger Woods and John Daly are probably the highest-profile golfers to wear handcuffs, but Scheffler’s arrest is very different because it happened while he was competing in a tournament — a major championship, no less.

Woods was arrested in 2017 on suspicion of driving under the influence when he was found asleep in the driver’s seat of his Mercedes-Benz while he was recovering from back surgery. Daly was taken into custody in North Carolina in October 2008 after he was found drunk outside a Hooters restaurant and held until he could get sober.

At least five other pro golfers — Robert Allenby, Steven Bowditch, Matt Every, Joe Ogilvie and Jack McGurn — have been arrested either during or around a tournament.

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