Charges against world's top golfer Scottie Scheffler dropped after arrest outside PGA Championship

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Criminal charges against Scottie Scheffler have been dismissed, ending a legal saga that began with images of the world’s top male golfer being arrested and handcuffed in Louisville during the PGA Championship.

Jefferson County Attorney Mike O’Connell asked a judge Wednesday afternoon to drop the four charges against Scheffle, who was not required to be in the courtroom. The prosecutor said his team reviewed the case in a “thorough and expeditious manner.”

“Based upon the totality of the evidence, my office cannot move forward in the prosecution of the charges filed against Mr. Scheffler,” O’Connell said during the hearing that lasted less than 10 minutes. “Mr. Scheffler’s characterization that this was ‘a big misunderstanding’ is corroborated by the evidence.”

Scheffler was charged with a felony for assaulting a police officer with his vehicle, along with three misdemeanors. The arresting officer, Detective Bryan Gillis, was outside the gate of Valhalla Golf Course May 17 directing traffic after a pedestrian death when he encountered Scheffler.

https://apnews.com/article/scottie-scheffler-police-arrest-louisville-cf7f59fc48d223083bb71d272d139050

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1. Link to BBC

https://www.bbc.com/sport/golf/articles/c977gnrnyqpo

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2. MAGA Golfer MAGA Police MAGA Prosecutor MAGA Judge? My reckless speculation

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3. Gag a friggin maggot......

“The reason why I play golf is I’m trying to glorify God and all that He’s done in my life,” he said. All I’m trying to do is glorify God, and that’s why I’m here, and that’s why I’m in [this] position.”

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4. Thanks for posting this: self-righteous Christian Nationalist murcan golfers

The PGA has more born-again fundies & Christian nationalists than any other sport, and they are more likely to throw their "faith" in your face than other Christian athletes.

(Gag warning for this article):
https://www.independent.ie/sport/golf/loves-quartet-of-born-again-christians-eager-to-rejoice-in-us-victory/28814524.html

Simpson, alongside Bubba Watson, Matt Kuchar and Zach Johnson, props a quartet of born-again Christians who sustain a rich seam of evangelism in this competition, manifested most vividly when former captain Tom Lehman decided to wear a bracelet marked WWJD -- 'What would Jesus do?' The rump of America's established golf constituency can roughly be summarised thus: ardently Republican, gun-toting good ol' boys whose political inclinations make Mitt Romney look like Woody Guthrie.

So overwhelmingly right-wing is the make-up that Padraig Harrington, an Irish Democrat by nature, once told me there was nobody on Tour with whom he could sensibly debate the state of the nation. It is the naked religiosity of many US golfers, though, that can occasionally grate.

When the Lehman-led Ryder Cup brigade descended upon the K Club in 2006, CBS commentator David Feherty suggested: "I think a lot of Europeans find that conservative Christian thing as frightening as conservative Muslims."

The invocation of God, by Simpson and those of similar conviction, is relentless. In the aftermath of a victory last summer in North Carolina, Simpson declared: "I'd be stupid not to thank my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, because it was tough out there and I was nervous." Johnson, likewise, chose the moment of his Masters triumph in 2007 to offer this: "It being Easter, my goal was to glorify God, and I hope that I did that today."

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5. Annoys Me, Too

I love watching him play, but the proselytizing is sickening. And, boring.
It's golf, not international humanitarian work.