Scottie Scheffler, the golfer arrested in Louisville, talked about the arrest and whether it's a distraction to him and whether he thought about suing the Louisville Metro Police.

Police arrested Scheffler near a fatal accident scene in Louisville on May 17th during a PGA tournament.

Police said Scheffler ignored traffic directions and ended up dragging an officer, causing some injuries.

The Jefferson County attorney later dropped the charges, saying evidence backed up.

Scheffler claimed that it was all of us understanding before the PGA Memorial tournament in Ohio.

Reporters asked Scheffler if he was ready to move on when prosecutors dropped the charges.

I definitely had moved past it.

And you know, I would say that I still, you know, wouldn't have 100% move past it because, yeah, the charges are dropped.

But I still now it's almost more appropriate for people to ask me about it and ask me about the situation.

And to be honest with you, it's not something that I love reliving just because it was fairly traumatic for me being arrested going into the golf course.

And so it's not something that I love talking about.

It's something that I'm hoping to move past.

But when the charges are dropped, that's kind of only the beginning of kind of getting past it.

That makes sense.

So kind of, you know, operating through that now.

And that was definitely a bit of a relief, but not not to a relief because that's something that always I think, you know, kind of stick with me.

I mugshot.

I'm sure he's not going anywhere any time soon.

And we'll go.

Reporters asked Scheffler whether he and his attorney, Steve Romans, considered suing the Louisville Metro Police, and they've asked Scheffler whether this has changed his attitudes toward other people accused of wrongdoing.

If we needed to if it if I kind of became like, I don't really know how to describe it, but basically, if I had to show up in court, I think Steve was more than prepared to to pursue legal action.

But at the end of the day, you know, I did not want to have to pursue legal action against Louisville because at the end of the day that the people of Louisville or they're going to have to pay for the mistakes of their police department, that just don't seem right.

And so at no point did I ever want to sue them.

But if it came there, I think my lawyer was more than prepared to use that as more of like a bargaining chip type thing more than anything.

You know, I think I try to believe in people are innocent until proven guilty.

And so when somebody is accused of something, I can't really remember some I never really try to I never really see someone or I try not to see people for kind of their bad sides.

You know, just because somebody is accused of something doesn't mean that they actually did it or maybe they did do it and maybe they just made a mistake.

I think forgiveness is something that's that's lost in our society.

And, you know, just because somebody made a mistake at one point in their life doesn't mean that they're a bad person.

I think sometimes in society, people are expecting perfection out of everybody.

And just because somebody will make one mistake, you know, people will, you know, crucify them for that.

And, you know, I've never really believed in that.

You know, I believe in forgiveness.

I believe in grace.

And, you know, I try to give that out as much as possible because of how much grace, you know, I've been given.

Scheffler says while this has been a distraction off the course, he doesn't think it will affect how he plays on the course.

Scheffler is, by the way, the number one ranked golfer in the world and the winner of the 2022 and 2024 Masters.