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Eyes might have been on Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, however Xander Schauffele has come out because the star of the 2024 PGA Championship.
Schauffele, 30, achieved his first main championship victory by outperforming his opponents throughout the closing spherical on the Valhalla Golf Membership in Louisville, Kentucky on Sunday, Might 19.
The San Diego native began the spherical tied for co-lead with two-time main winner Collin Morikawa earlier than defeating fierce rivals Bryson DeChambeau and Viktor Hovland.
Scheffler, 27, who was arrested exterior the Valhalla Golf Membership on Friday, Might 17, closed out his efficiency with 6-under 65.
McIlroy, 35, additionally attracted consideration throughout the event after submitting for divorce from spouse Erica Stoll on Monday, Might 13, days earlier than the event commenced. He closed out his efforts within the PGA Championship with 67.
Schauffele’s successful efficiency got here throughout his twenty eighth look in a significant competitors, giving him his eighth PGA Tour win and breaking a 39-start winless streak whereas on the tour.
The glowing outcome comes after per week of surprising international controversy attributable to Scheffler’s arrest.
Us Weekly confirmed Scheffler was detained by the Louisville Metro Police after an accident involving a struck pedestrian led to native regulation enforcement stopping the street exterior the Valhalla Golf Membership.
“At about 5:07 this morning, in entrance of Gate 2 at Valhalla Golf Membership, a pedestrian was fatally struck by a shuttle bus. LMPD expresses its honest condolences to the household of the person who died because of that collision. All lanes of visitors on the scene had been closed whereas the fatality investigation occurred,” LMPD stated in a press release to Us on Might 17. “LMPD personnel had been additionally directing visitors across the scene. Whereas an officer was directing visitors, an encounter with a motorist trying to make entry right into a restricted space in the end led to the driving force being arrested. We’re within the strategy of conducting an intensive investigation. We’re appreciative that each one events concerned are absolutely cooperating,”
Rory McIlroy and spouse Erica Stoll sparked a romance after years of friendship. The professional golfer initially met Stoll in 2012 whereas he was nonetheless courting tennis participant Caroline Wozniacki. (The exes cut up in 2014 after three years and had been briefly engaged.) “The factor I like about it’s that we had been buddies earlier than something […]
The golfer addressed the incident throughout a press convention after he competed within the second spherical of the competitors. “I really feel like my head continues to be spinning. I can’t actually clarify what occurred this morning,” he stated. “I did spend a while stretching in a jail cell. That was a primary for me. That was a part of my warmup. I used to be simply sitting there ready and I began going by way of my warmup, I felt like there was an opportunity I might be able to nonetheless come out right here and play.”
As for McIlroy, Us confirmed the athlete filed for divorce from Stoll in Florida and divorce docs reportedly state that their marriage was “irretrievably damaged” and that he and Stoll had a prenup, in keeping with The New York Publish.
Information of the couple’s cut up additionally comes practically one month after they reached their seventh wedding ceremony anniversary, although McIlroy didn’t commemorate the event through social media.
