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Bachelor’s Degree in Sports Management, Marketing, Business or related field

Minimum 3 years related experience in marketing, events and/or experiential programs; sports entertainment, sponsorship, or agency experience a plus

Strong understanding and comprehension of industry leading event and experiential programs

Ability to travel internationally

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Activation Program Oversight 

• Comprehend PGA TOUR corporate partner experiential objectives and build strategic tournament solutions
• Manage client activation services process including discovery conversations, planning process, program build, vendor management, onsite implementation and success measurement
• Establish process and cadence with clients in advance of activations, including weekly status calls, project management and post-event recaps
• Lead execution of first-class tournament programs, which may include operational build-out of brand experience, technology integration, collateral and fan engagement activities
• Build a specialized Activation Services offering to be socialized and presented to new and existing corporate partners as an emerging incremental revenue source
• Serve as an extension of the tournament & corporate partnerships team on-site at tournaments for clients to service any needs and strengthen relationships for future revenue growth
• Oversee weekly communication and coordination with department and sponsor; manage metrics to identify areas of concern or growth

Championship Management Catering / Sponsorship

• Assist with the management and planning of food and beverage services across Championship Management
• Manage process and cadence with caterer(s) in advance of tournaments, including planning calls, planning around sponsorship integration with catering elements, on-site food and beverage strategy for concessions and hospitality, communication with sponsors with catering integration, post-event recaps, billing and data collection distribution
• Serve as central point of contact between partners, vendors, internal TOUR departments and tournament staff. This includes serving as an on-site point of contact which will require traveling to tournaments to be present from load in and throughout tournament week as needed  
• Maintain positive working relationships with vendors outside of TOUR who are involved from concept, build, execution and post-event needs
• Special projects or other duties as assigned.

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Want to join Valhalla Golf Club? Here’s what it will cost

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The host of this week's PGA Championship has been private since it opened in 1986, but ownership and membership policies have changed.

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If you’re hoping to gain entry to Valhalla , the eternal resting place of Norse mythology, you’ll need to die valiantly in battle. That’s one of the rules.

For access to that other Valhalla, in Louisville, Ky., where the PGA Championship is taking place this week, a different form of payment is required.

First opened for play in 1986, Valhalla Golf Club has been private since its inception. But its ownership has swapped hands on more than one occasion, and its membership policies have changed over time. 

A notable shift took place in 2022, when a small group of investors led by ISCO Industries CEO Jimmy Kirchdorfer purchased the club from the PGA of America, saying that their aim was to “protect Valhalla from profit-driven investors, who would likely develop the critical land surrounding our course.”

Shortly after the sale, new management announced a series of changes that did not sit well with everyone. In addition to eliminating corporate memberships and unaccompanied guest play, the club informed longtime members that they would have to forfeit their right to a refund of their initiation dues or be forced to leave the club.

A mini-uprising in the ranks ensued. Some members resigned.

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In a 2023 Golf Digest article about the controversy, one of those members lamented the direction the club had taken, saying that new ownership “wanted to turn Valhalla into a sort of Augusta. I don’t want it to be a showplace. For me, it’s just a golf club.”

However you describe it, Valhalla has long counted as the highest-profile club in the Louisville area, with major-championship pedigree adding to its prominence. This week’s PGA Championship marks the fourth time the club has welcomed the event.

That kind of prestige is one of many factors that can influence the price of a club membership. So, what does it cost to join Valhalla?

Club representatives did not respond to an inquiry from GOLF.com. But several sources with close knowledge of Valhalla, including a current member, told GOLF.com that initiation dues, which were formerly in the neighborhood of $75,000, are now $125,000, plus $1,000 in monthly dues. At last count, those sources said, Valhalla has roughly 275 Kentucky-based members and around 35 national members. A national membership, which sources said is limited to those living more than 100 miles from the club, costs $25,000 upfront, with approximately $500 in monthly dues.

Asked whether there was a waiting list, one source told GOLF.com, “You could join right now if you wanted.”

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“We’re always interested in methods that may help improve the flow of play during our Championships,” said Jim Richerson, then the president of the PGA of America. “The use of distance-measuring devices is already common within the game and is now a part of the Rules of Golf. Players and caddies have long used them during practice rounds to gather relevant yardages.”

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Scottie Scheffler: 2024 PGA Championship Press Conference

THE MODERATOR: Welcome back to the 106th PGA Championship where the reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler joins us. Welcome to Valhalla in what is your fifth PGA Championship. Congratulations. How have the first few days of fatherhood been?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: First few days have been nice. It was good to get some time at home. It's pretty wild. A lot of fun. It's a pretty exciting time for Meredith and me.

As far as this week goes, yeah, excited to be here, excited to play, be here and compete. This is a major championship week, and this is what I practice and prepare for is to play my best at these events, and hopefully that trend will continue.

Q. Anything about the whole process surprise you at all?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Of what?

Q. Childbirth.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah. A lot. (Laughing).

I think it's just wild watching Meredith go through that. It's just nuts. I don't really know how to describe it, watching the little dude come out of Meredith, and we waited, and it was a surprise for us whether it was going to be a boy or girl, so being able to tell my wife that it was a boy, yeah, it was a wild ride.

Extremely proud of Meredith after watching her go through that. It's nuts. I'm glad it was her going through it and not me because I don't know if I could have done it. It was pretty nuts.

Extremely proud of her, and the look on her face right after birth, she was just glowing, so proud of herself and so excited to have our little boy.

Q. My wife wanted to insist that I ask about your wife. How is Meredith doing with the last week and specifically celebrating her first Mother's Day?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Her first Mother's Day was fun. Her first Mother's Day was Sunday and then her birthday Monday, so it was a fun five, six days for us. She's doing well, recovering nicely. We're very fortunate to be in this position with a healthy mom and healthy baby. Hopefully that will continue.

Q. Is this your first time in Louisville?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I think it is, yeah. I think it's my first time here.

Q. What are your overall thoughts on Valhalla and the community in general?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well, to be honest, I haven't seen much of the community. I doubt that I'll see much of it this week. Typically the majors are just me going to the house and here. That's pretty much the whole two things that I'll see.

The support around this event seems to be tremendous. There's a lot of people there for the practice rounds and they're fighting through the rain and elements today to be here and watch us. The practice rounds have been fun.

As far as the golf course goes, it's a good track. It seems to be in good shape. We'll see how much rain we get over the next day or two and as the tournament goes on, but the course seems to be in good shape.

Q. I know this is the largest corporate build, it's close to Ryder Cup level. As a golfer, having all the different tents and things like that, does that ever serve as a distraction, or is it something where you just learn -- you walk around and get comfortable with the course and go from there?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I didn't really notice any extra tents or anything like that out there. Not really sure what to say. It's nice to have the support of our tournament here, and I'm excited to be here and compete. But as far as the grandstands and stuff go -- if there was none I'd probably notice it, but since there's a lot, maybe it all just kinds of blends in together.

Q. You were already at the point where people are starting to count up how many majors you might win, how many weeks you might be at No. 1. Staying in the moment is one thing when you're in a tournament, but how do you stay in the moment between tournaments? How do you avoid looking forward and looking out into the future years and decades?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, I think it's pretty easy. I don't really try to look that far ahead. If I listen to the narratives around myself, if it was two months ago it would probably look significantly different than it does now. I'm sure that wasn't a conversation y'all were having two months ago and all of a sudden now it's like, Oh, he's going to win this many tournaments or do that and do this. I don't really pay attention to it, I don't really care about it. I'm trying to do the best I can out there each and every week, and as far as anything else, I'm not really too concerned with it.

I may win a lot of major championships, I may be stuck at two the rest of my career. It doesn't really concern me in the moment. I'm just trying to prepare as best as possible for this week.

At home it was a nice time to reflect a little bit on my career so far and where my life has gone. I married my high school sweetheart and I always wanted to play professional golf and now I'm here. I was sitting there with a newborn in my arms and the green jacket in the closet. It was a pretty special time I think at home.

But at the same time, I think the competitiveness in me doesn't let me reflect too much and I was trying to do my best to get ready to play this week.

Q. Do you just not look at media, not watch TV, keep an eye on what's being said about you?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, pretty much. I did watch golf actually last weekend for the first time in a while. I got to watch the tournament on Sunday, watched a little bit of the golf on Saturday, as well, just because we were sitting around and it was nice to have something in the background. I got to see a little bit of the golf and saw some really nice golf being played. Part of me wanted to be out there competing with these guys. It's nice to be back out this week.

Q. With this being an Olympic year, have you given much thought to that yet, and are you planning to play in Paris this summer?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I definitely plan on playing. I think becoming an Olympian would be a dream come true, for sure. Be a nice little thing to be able to trash talk to my buddies about when they say golfers aren't athletes. I can claim I'm an Olympian. I think it's definitely a tournament that has been on my schedule, and I'll definitely be playing there if I'm able.

Q. I was talking to Ted a minute ago. You're six days into this fatherhood business. He's got a 17-year-old graduating high school this Saturday. How are you going to handle that one?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well, me, Teddy is going home Friday night, coming back Saturday evening after the graduation -- or probably Saturday late night, I'm sure they'll do a little celebration afterward. That's something we talked about from the beginning of our relationship was family always comes first, and it's the same thing for me as it is for my caddie. It was a pretty easy decision. He told me at the beginning of this year that that was the date that it was, so I got a backup caddie lined up. One of my buddies is going to carry the bag on Saturday, and then Ted will be back for Sunday's round.

Q. Is it one of your buddies who was staying with you at Augusta this year?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: No, no, it's one of my older friends who travels week to week out here. He's the TOUR chaplain. His name is Brad and he's caddying for me on Saturday. I trust him to rake a bunker more than my buddies.

Q. You had a big break at the end of last year, but in terms of three weeks off in the course of a season, that's kind of rare for you. What is your frame of mind coming off reflections, special time you hadn't golfed, competed in three weeks.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I was able to practice and play plenty at home. Obviously the last week was a bit different with our son coming. But yeah, I would say three weeks is probably a bit of a longer break than I would usually take. I'm sure on a normal year I probably would have been playing at the Nelson.

But yeah, definitely rested going into this week for sure. I don't really feel like any rust has accumulated. I was able to practice and play a lot at home. I'm able to do stuff at home to simulate tournament golf, especially on the greens, competing and gambling with my buddies, I don't really want to lose to them, either, so I was able to simulate a little bit of competition at home.

Q. Over the past couple weeks, what's been the best piece of advice you've gotten on becoming a dad, and what's the strangest piece of advice?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I feel like I haven't really gotten too much unsolicited advice, which I'm a bit thankful for. Every kid, I'm sure, is a lot different, so I think you manage them each differently. Right now I'm literally just standing there changing diapers and handing him back to Meredith so he can feed, and just letting him sleep on me.

It's exciting. I couldn't imagine it being the way that it is, and it's a lot of fun. I miss him like crazy. It was not easy to leave the house Monday morning.

But like I said, I told my son as I was leaving, I was like, I don't want to leave you right now, but I need to. I'm called to do my job to the best of my ability, and I felt like showing up Wednesday night wouldn't really be doing myself a service this week when it comes to playing and competing in the tournament, so I had to show up, especially with the weather forecast, showing up, being prepared and ready to play and being back home as quick as I can.

Q. Are there some commonalities in this amazing run you've put together, things maybe you notice that other people don't necessarily, whether it's unique in putting or any part of your game or the mental approach that stand out to you? It's been an exceptionally hot run.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I've been playing pretty good. I've had some weeks where my swing didn't feel 100 percent and I was able to make up for it with the putter. Then I had some weeks where maybe I wasn't holing a ton of putts and I was able to make up for it with my ball-striking. I feel like I'm in a good head space.

Does anything stand out to me? I'm not really sure. I think I've just been playing some really good golf. This game is funny. Sometimes you get good breaks and sometimes you get bad breaks. I think it's just a really difficult sport, and sometimes it can seem really easy, and then sometimes it can seem pretty tough.

The last couple months it seems like it has felt fairly easy at times. I think, as a professional, I think that's always what you're striving for, and it's been nice to see some of the benefits of the work that I've put in and see some results on the course, as well.

Q. You're going to expect some changes obviously in how you've done things. Can you talk about what you envisage coming in the future, whether it's changing practice time, reduced time at certain times. The call and the pull of home is going to be greater obviously from now on.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I think just the continued efficiency. Just continuing to get more efficient in the way I do things.

Actually, I was at home working out on Sunday and it was like the fastest workout I ever did at home, just because I was ready to go back in the living room and hang out with Mer and our son. I think a lot of that will come naturally, just being as focused as I can and trying to stay present. When I'm out here at the golf course doing my job, I'm able to focus on that. Then when I get home, I'm able to leave the golf course there and focus on being with my wife and son.

Q. You said you're playing and gambling with your mates back home. How often do you lose to those guys with strokes involved?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Not too much I would say. Depends on the game. I like to challenge myself as much as possible.

A decent amount, but I try not to lose too much.

Q. Is there any backstory on the name for your son?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: No. Not really. It's just a name that we liked. Yeah, just a name we liked.

Q. Do you feel there might be a good thing here in terms of a good distraction that you've had here lately, instead of having to focus and get asked questions about your golf and keeping this run going, that you were kind of away from it, you had a life issue to deal with which was great and do you see that helping you in any way?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I'm not really sure. I think throughout my career, I think I've learned a little bit of how to compartmentalize things, and I think as my career has gone on, I've been able to do a better job of that.

I try to do my best to keep my personal life out of kind of the public eye. I think that's something that my wife and I -- we like having almost two separate lives. I have my life out here in public where I'm out here competing and playing in front of fans, then we have our life at home where we really just want to go home and hang out with our friends and go out to dinner and just be kind of regular old normal people and live our lives because that's really who we are I feel like.

It's kind of a tough balance because it's such an exciting time that I want to be able to share it with everybody, but there's also the balance of wanting to keep our private life private and at home. I think that's something that I'll learn, as well, is kind of striking a balance between being able to share the joy of being a parent with everybody while also keeping our kids' lives as private as possible.

Q. You said during the break and the birth of your son that you reflected a lot. When it comes to your career, what did you think about?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, as far as my career goes, I think there was just a little bit of just kind of thankful times mostly. Like I said, I'm sitting there with Meredith, and we started dating in high school, and I think a lot of the time we still feel like children. So to be sitting at home awaiting the birth of our child and then bringing our child home was definitely a very interesting feeling because I think sometimes we both see just the kid in each other, and being responsible for another life form is a pretty interesting thing for us to be responsible for.

I think that's mostly what it was, just being thankful for where our lives have gone and where this game of golf has taken us. It was definitely nice. I can't really describe the feeling of, you know, dreaming of just coming and playing on the PGA TOUR, to be sitting at home with the girl I dated in high school with our child and then the Green Jacket sitting in the closet is a pretty insane feeling, and I just wanted to be as thankful as possible.

But I think the human heart is always striving for more, and the competitiveness in me, it doesn't really allow me to reflect really that much.

Q. You built a nice record in the PGA Championship already. You hadn't seen Valhalla, but as you come here, what are you expecting of a PGA test?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I think with the weather forecast this week, it may not be -- the scores may not be as close to par as some other major championships. We'll see how the golf course plays. Like I said, I only played nine holes yesterday and today, so as the tournament goes on we'll see how the course plays. But with soft greens and soft fairways, I'd imagine the scores would be fairly low here. I don't know exactly what the winning score will be like, but I think it'll be -- scores would be a little bit lower, I think, than the last major.

But with any major championship, there's a lot more pressure. The golf courses are always a bit tougher. This is a place where I feel like when you're hitting it really well, the golf course can open up for you, and there's definitely a lot of holes where you've got to put the ball in play, just with the thick rough. A lot of good elevation change around this golf course. After playing 18 holes, it seems like a really good fair test of golf. Par-3s seem pretty difficult. There's a couple par-5s you can get after, and then there's some par-4s that are the same way, but then there's also a couple par-4s that are pretty challenging.

I think around this golf course you've got a good mix of holes, and as players we look for the best test of golf, not necessarily what the winning score is going to be. Just because it's even par doesn't mean it was a great test of golf. I think what we're looking for is be rewarded for good shots and punished for bad ones, and from what I've seen around this golf course, it seems like an appropriate test.

Q. Max Homa was in here earlier mentioning he feels like the types of courses and the way the PGA Championship is played over the years has almost formed an identity, almost maybe like an old U.S. Open-style setup, lots of drivers, lots of long irons. Have you noticed a trend in the way this championship is set up?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: To me it's always seemed pretty challenging. I think the major championships have leaned into trying to be the toughest tests. I think at a lot of major championship golf courses it eliminates a lot of the shorter hitters out here, with how long the golf courses are and how firm they try and get them for majors, it's extremely challenging for a shorter hitter to be able to compete.

Is that necessarily the best test? I'm not really sure. But I think it's kind of finding the balance between still challenging the longer hitters, while also giving all the guys opportunities for scoring. It's a tough balance really, and it all depends on weather conditions, and there's a lot of different factors that go into that.

I think this week with the greens probably being a little bit softer, we'll see how the course plays, but I think the PGA especially has leaned into wanting to be a little bit more difficult test. You look at Oak Hill last year, that was pretty challenging, and the courses before that I think were pretty challenging, as well.

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Tiger Woods made a highly anticipated return to action on Friday for the second round of the 2024 PGA Championship . He finished Round 1 with a 1-over-72 and looked to improve as many golfers did on Friday.

"I think that I've made a few cuts in a row, what was it, 140-some odd," Woods said to PGA after Round 1. "So you have to just grind it out. It's a marathon. Major championships are a long grind. It's just plotting along. It's not a sprint. It's just a grind."

But that long grind started very badly on Friday morning. Woods bogeyed on three of the first four holes of the day and was 8-over by the fifth hole. Birdies at the seventh, eighth, and 18th holes couldn't overcome his early struggles and Woods missed the cut for the PGA Championship.

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• No. 1: Xander Schauffele (-12)
• No. 2: Collin Morikawa (-11)
• No. 3: Sahith Theegala (-10)
• T-No. 4: Mark Hubbard (-9)
• T-No. 4: Thomas Detry (-9)
• T-No. 4: Scottie Scheffler (-9)
• T-No. 4: Bryson DeChambeau (-9)
• T-No. 8: Viktor Hovland (-8)
• T-No. 8: Robert MacIntyre (-8)
• T-No. 8: Austin Eckroat (-8)
• T-No. 11: Brooks Koepka (-7)
• T-No. 11: HIdeki Matsuyama (-7)
• T-No. 11: Matt Wallace (-7)
• T-No. 11: Harris English (-7)
• T-No. 11: Tony Finau (-7)

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Jimmy dunne resigns from pga tour board.

Jimmy Dunne, one of the architects behind the PGA Tour’s stunning reversal to strike a deal with the Saudi backers of LIV Golf, abruptly resigned Monday from the PGA Tour board with a letter that expressed frustration at the lack of progress that no longer included his input.

Dunne, a power broker on Wall Street and in golf circles, was not included on the PGA Tour Enterprise’s new “transaction subcommittee” that will be handling the direct negotiations with the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia.

Dunne and Ed Herlihy, an attorney specializing in mergers and acquisition and chairman of PGA Tour Inc., were whom PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan leaned on when he first met with Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the PIF governor, that led to the June 6 agreement.

The immediate result of the deal was an end to antitrust lawsuits neither side wanted and had already cost the PGA Tour in the neighborhood of $50 million. The tour has since brought on Strategic Sports Group as a minority investor in a deal initially worth $1.5 billion.

“As you are aware, I have not been asked to take part in negotiations with the PIF since June 2023,” Dunne said in his letter to the board first obtained by Sports Illustrated.

“Since the players now outnumber the independent directors on the board, and no meaningful progress has been made towards a transaction with the PIF, I feel like my vote and my role is utterly superfluous,” he wrote.

The tour, feeling pushback and resentment for the secrecy behind the June 6 deal, appointed Tiger Woods to the board with no term limit. The board now has six player directors — Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Jordan Spieth, Webb Simpson, Adam Scott and Peter Malnati — and five independent directors.

Dunne is the second independent director to resign following the June 6 announcement. Randall Stephenson, former AT&T chairman, resigned in July over objections to the agreement with the Saudis. — AP

Rory McIlroy resigned from the board in November, and player directors appointed Spieth to finish his term.

The move signals the tour in a state of disarray as it tries to work out a deal with PIF and start the process of unifying a sport that has been divided since LIV launched in June 2022.

The June 6 agreement included a deadline to complete a deal by the end of 2023. By then, the tour had private equity suitors and LIV Golf signed reigning Masters champion Jon Rahm and eventually Tyrrell Hatton.

Dunne said along with the lawsuits being dismissed — often overlooked as a key point in the agreement with PIF — the agreement did not contain an exclusivity clause that allowed players “a full range of options to seek outside investors.”

“That resulted in a multi-billion-dollar commitment from the Strategic Sports Group,” Dunne wrote. “I believe that history will look favorably on this outcome and the very real opportunities now afforded the tour.”

Monahan and the player directors eventually met with Al-Rumayyan for the first time in March, though there has been no clear progress on any deal — PIF as a minority investor or how to bring back the best players together more than four times a year at the majors.

Simpson, meanwhile, offered to resign from the board contingent on McIlroy replacing him. That never happened, with McIlroy saying last week “there was a subset of people on the board that were maybe uncomfortable with me coming back on for some reason.”

Instead, McIlroy was added to the transaction subcommittee along with Woods; Scott; Monahan; liaison director Joe Ogilvie; Joe Gorder, the CEO of Valero Energy Corp. and chairman of PGA Tour Enterprises; and John W. Henry of Fenway Sports Group, a principal in SSG.

“It is crucial for the board to avoid letting yesterday’s differences interfere with today’s decisions, especially when they influence future opportunities for the tour,” Dunne wrote. “Unifying professional golf is paramount to restoring fan interest and repairing wounds left from a fractured game. I have tried my best to move all minds in that direction.”

According to the tour’s bylaws, the four independent directors choose Dunne’s replace after consulting the player directors and John Lindert, the PGA of America president who is a nonvoting board member.

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Scottie Scheffler stretches in jail cell, shoots 66 following arrest at PGA Championship

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Few days in PGA Tour history have been as bizarre and surreal as Friday.

With a steady rain casting a gloomy backdrop for the second round of the PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club, Scottie Scheffler stepped onto the tee box at the 10th hole to a loud ovation, chants of "Scottie, Scottie, Scottie …"

And an occasional "Free Scottie."

The world's No. 1 golfer, a man guided by his Christian faith, was arrested about three hours before hitting that first tee shot about 300 yards into the thick, soupy air, his situation triggering a chain of events as unexpected as one of the club pros winning this event.

Or as unexpected as a man shooting a 66 in a major championship after his opening tee shot came about 90 minutes after he was released on his own recognizance from police custody.

That bizarre scene was the result of a tragedy that Scheffler and every golfer referenced and made sure was not overlooked when asked about the morning's events.

Scheffler was attempting to enter the grounds about an hour after a man heading to his job as a vendor was struck by a shuttle bus while crossing the road. John Mills, of Louisville, was pronounced dead. He was 69.

Before he said anything about his situation or his round, Scheffler offered his sympathies to the Mills family.

"I can't imagine what they're going through," he said. "My heart … I feel for them. I'm sorry."

Recent: Here's what Scottie Scheffler said of 'chaotic' misunderstanding in PGA Championship arrest

Scheffler used the word "chaotic" eight times during his post-round news conference, and said the situation was a "misunderstanding" and would be "handled."

And chaotic also described the scene on the course as Scheffler was followed around by thousands of loud fans all day, some already sporting T-shirts with Scheffler's mugshot, others having used black marker to inscribe "FREE SCOTTIE" on their shirts.

Unfazed by that chaos, Scheffler stuck his third shot of the day within 3 feet of the pin. He opened with a birdie on that par-5 10th hole,.

Then, after a bogey on No. 11, he drained a 27-footer for his second birdie.

When the round ended, his card included six birdies and that bogey on his second hole.

"It probably took a few holes to feel normal," Scheffler said. "As far as best rounds of my career, I would say it was pretty good.

"I definitely never imagined ever going to jail, and I definitely never imagined going to jail the morning before one of my tee times for sure."

This is a rare athlete who has mastered the art of compartmentalizing since his meteoric rise that started just two years ago and now has him firmly in the No. 1 spot in the world ranking.

That being said, he did play with a heavy heart for John Mills.

"Coming out here and trying to play today was definitely a challenge, but I did my best to control my mind, control my breathing," he said.

Scheffler offered "numerous" apologies, telling the police he was just trying to get to his tee time. And he said he never used his name. "At no point did I try to name-drop myself to defuse the situation," he said.

While he knew there was an accident as he was pulling into the club, at that time he did not know there had been a fatality.

"My main focus after getting arrested was wondering if I could be able to come back out here and play," he said. "And fortunately I was able to do that."

Scheffler finally arrived at the course about an hour before his tee time, which was pushed back 80 minutes because the main access road was closed for more than an hour after the accident. After a quick breakfast, he walked through the gathering crowd to the range.

Every step was met with cheers, shouts of encouragement and a few snarky comments comparing his mugshot to Tiger Woods' from Tiger's 2017 arrest in Jupiter on DUI charges.

Scheffler appeared loose and even smiled a few times while talking with his caddie, Ted Scott. He gladly accepted a fist bump from Rickie Fowler on his way to the range.

His memories of his trip to jail were trying to get loose in the cell by stretching — "a first for me," he said — and watching himself on the television in the holding cell.

He said it took about an hour to stop shaking.

"I was pretty rattled, to say the least," Scheffler said. "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 kind of go in and I asked him … 'Hey, excuse me, can you just come hang out with me for a few minutes so I can calm down?' I was never angry. I was just in shock, and I think my body was just … I was shaking the whole time. I was shaking for like an hour. It was definitely a new feeling for me."

The decision to play was left up to Scheffler and there never was a doubt.

"My manager asked me if I wanted to, and I was like, 'Of course,'" he said. "Then we just came here and got ready to go play."

Tom D'Angelo is a senior sports columnist and golf writer for The Palm Beach Post. He can be reached at [email protected].

PGA Championship

Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville, Kentucky

Saturday, 10 a.m., ESPN, 1 p.m., CBS; Sunday, 10 a.m., ESPN, 1 p.m., CBS

Defending champ: Brooks Koepka