Scottie Scheffler praises police for being 'our protectors,’ describes interactions with them while in custody

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Scottie Scheffler was in unfamiliar territory early Friday morning, as he was arrested en route to the PGA Championship at Valhalla.

The ordeal had Scheffler feeling "pretty rattled, to say the least," and he admitted it took him a "few holes" to feel somewhat normal again.

But in a somewhat ironic twist (he is facing a felony charge of second-degree assault on a police officer), the officers who were involved in placing Scheffler in custody wound up playing a role in calming him down.

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Scottie Scheffler of The United States walks off the tee on his first hole, the par 5, 10th hole with his playing partner Wyndham Clark during the second round of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club on May 17, 2024, in Louisville, Kentucky.  (David Cannon/Getty Images)

"The officer that took me to the jail was very kind, he was great. We had a nice chat in the car, that kind of helped calm me down. I was sitting there waiting to go in, and I asked him, I was like ‘Can you just come hang out with me for a few minutes so I can calm down?…’" Scheffler said after his round. (He even joked that he had been stretching in a jail cell.)

"The officers inside the jail were tremendous."

Scheffler even said he was the butt of some jokes made inside the jail "when they figured out who I was and what happened and how I ended up there."

"This one older officer looked at me when I was doing my fingerprints and looks at me and goes ‘Do you want full experience today?’ I looked at him and go, ‘I don’t know how to answer that.’ He was like ‘Come on man, do you want a sandwich?’ I was like ‘sure, I’ll take a