An accident on the access road to Valhalla has led to the decision of the PGA of the United States to delay the start of the second day of the PGA Championship by more than an hour (it will be 80 minutes). According to Louisville municipal police, an individual was fatally hit by a bus while crossing Shelbyville Road around 5 a.m.
Meanwhile, it rains on the stage of the second big event of the season and the risk of stoppages due to electrical storms is latent. Jon Rahm was scheduled to leave at 2:37 p.m. Spanish peninsular time.
In the midst of the chaos, ESPN journalist Jeff Darlington wrote in X that Scottie Scheffler, the world number 1, had been detained and handcuffed next to the sheriff’s car for not following the rules: “Scottie Scheffler has been detained by police, handcuffed after a misunderstanding led him to try to pass a police officer towards the Valhalla Golf Club. The police officer He attempted to harness himself to Scheffler’s car, but Scheffler stopped his vehicle in the driveway of Valhalla. The officer then began yelling at Scheffler to get out of the car. When he got out of the vehicle, the officer pushed him against the car and immediately handcuffed him. detained in the back of a police car.”