
844 - U.S. Women's Open Happy Hour
No Laying Up - Golf Podcast
Controversy with Golfer Scotty
Analyzing the confusion and repercussions of dropping charges against golfer Scotty, and the importance of handling such incidents carefully for both the individual and law enforcement.
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Speaker 3
Yeah, I need to get out and try. I'm really curious what that regular flavored iced tea tastes like
Speaker 1
because, Tron, your people down south
Speaker 3
keep trying to push this sweet iced tea thing and it's the most disgusting stuff I've ever had in my life. It's not sweet iced tea. It's just sweet tea.
Speaker 2
So
Speaker 1
anyway, anyway, you're here nor there. Don't need to start a cultural battle here tonight. We're going to talk a lot of Lancaster, a lot of US women's open. I think the news of the day kind of been foretold for like really weeks now and foretold as of Sunday night, well on the podcast, but the charges officially dropped for Scotty Sheffler. What just a massive, massive, massive waste of time effort and what if this entire thing was? I mean, it kind of felt like I was taking crazy pills for a while there. I was like, hey, where's the evidence? What are they possibly still pursuing here? KVV, of course, reported they were getting ready to drop the charges. The timeline changed a little bit, but they've now officially been dropped. Brandy, do you have any reaction to this news today?
Speaker 3
Not surprising. Have we gotten an update on the pants? I don't know where the pants shake out in all of this, but crazy to think that, you know, weird stuff always happens at Valhalla. And now we have Scotty Sheffler possibly probably being denied a major championship because of a rogue police officer.
Speaker 1
Unbelievable. And a bad setup. Yeah, they need to be looking out there looking for whoever set up that golf course more than the guy turning left to get into the parking lot. The God of Lore was asking where will Kevin Van Valkenburg victory lap be held for being right all along on Scotty. Icky32 said, can we please provide Kevin Van Valkenburg a runway for a victory lap? He stuck his neck out there in the KVV honorary. Stick your neck out there. Pick of the week. And I talked to him today. He said, we always felt confident in our sourcing information from what we understood. The county attorney got involved for reasons that were still unclear and held this, but this ultimate decision up. But the evidence was always clear, which is why the county did not proceed with the charges. So just like, you know, in the big short, maybe early, but I'm not wrong. That was that was the final statement there. So
Speaker 2
that's my motto. Sorry. With all my. Fleet with Tommy wins. Tommy wins. We're going to go. Let
Speaker 1
that just wait for it. So yeah, just a massive waste of time. It's over, I guess. And it will be freaking crazy if he goes on to win the last two majors of the year and we look back with this massive massive what if, but whatever. I love seeing
Speaker 2
you. Scotty's attorney clapping back at the reporters to basically saying, you know, hey, this contradicts what Scotty said to the police officer. And he's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, like the police officer was, who was asking him some very leading questions and basically trying to get him to confess right there on the spot when he's, you know, his brain's clearly pretty jumbled at that point.
Speaker 3
I was going to say, can you imagine if Friday morning, Nelly Korda got arrested and thrown in jail?
Speaker 2
Like, it's, I
Speaker 3
think this Scotty thing is just going to get wilder the further we get from it. Like I truly don't think I have not processed like how bizarre and weird the whole thing was.
Speaker 1
It, uh, just a massive, massive, massive avoidable overreaction, the whole thing. And yeah, go watch the video of the surface today of Scotty being interrogated the police officer. And that's why you don't talk to cops right there. That exact way of like, why that? Yeah, here's your rights. You don't have to talk to me. Scotty's like being as cordial as possible in it and explaining his thinking, but like the cop is asking very leading questions as his attorney points out and, uh, yeah, there's no benefit of saying even a word, even if it's an accident, even if it's like, you're in the right and you're trying to, you know, not incriminate yourself, you could, they're going to try to get you to, to submit evidence that we'll be incriminating. So, uh, that was, I don't know if that video was the, was what they, what they thought it was going to be originally.
Speaker 2
This guy leaned through the, through the window. I didn't know if he was a cop or not. He hit me, he hit me with his flashlight. Well, you know what? You should have stopped. Does it doesn't matter who he is. You should have stopped like get out of here. Yeah. Like there's no difference between a security or a cop. Yeah, there is. Big fucking difference. And
Speaker 1
yeah, that's why you're supposed to identify yourself as a police officer. And after you've already been told by a different police officer that he should take this route, the whole point of you being there would be to, you know, whatever. It's in the past. It's over. Uh, maybe, I don't know. I mean, I'm sure we'll start, probably still be talking about this for, for years to come.
Lancaster Country Club is set to host the U.S. Women's Open, as we get caught up on the news of the week, (of course) talk Nelly, Scottie's charges being dropped, what to expect from the golf course this week, Hamilton, NCAAs, and a lot more.
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