Video taken immediately after the arrest of golfing great Scottie Scheffler showed Scheffler saying he was unaware it was a Louisville police officer attempting to stop him as the officer directed traffic in the pre-dawn hours of May 17.
Detective Bryan Gillis approached Scheffler, and the golfer tried to drive away. Gillis grabbed the vehicle Scheffler was driving and received minor injuries.
Scheffler was charged with assaulting a police officer, but the charges were dropped Wednesday.
Just after his arrest, Scheffler said he believed Gillis was overly aggressive.
Scheffler, in a PGA-marked vehicle on his way to the Valhalla Golf Club for the second round of the PGA Championship attempted to go around blocked traffic stemming from an investigation of a fatal accident earlier in the morning.
In a police bodycam recording posted on X, Scheffler can be heard saying he was unaware that he was being stopped by a police officer.
