Police officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler has already been suspended three times

The police officer who arrested Scottie Scheffler at the entrance to Valhalla Golf Club has received "corrective action" over his detainment of the superstar - and has been suspended multiple times in the past .

The world No. 1 was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, a felony, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic on May 17. Scheffler denies the charges following the incident prior to the second round of the PGA Championship.

Amid the fallout from his arrest, it was revealed that Louisville Metro Police Det. Bryan Gillis had violated force policy after not activating his body cam during the detainment. Now, it has been claimed that the officer has been suspended on three occasions previously, according to WLYK .

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The report alleges that Gillis was last suspended by the LMPD after he was purportedly found doing "donuts" in a parking lot in his police car, with an "intoxicated civilian" in the vehicle. It is claimed that he was suspended for five days over this incident.

Before this, it is also alleged that the officer was handed a four-day suspension by the force over a violation of their policy on court attendance. It was claimed that Gillis broke the rules on four occasions across 2010 and 2011, with two of these instances ending in a on-day suspension.

Previously, Mayor Greenberg updated the public on Gillis' failure to activate his body cam when arresting Scheffler earlier this month, saying: "We are all looking to move forward. But we have to respect the legal process. And that's what we are going to do. We are going to let that play out.

"Activating body-worn cameras, it is critically important for our police department to have evidence to maintain the community's trust, to be transparent. LMPD needs to be focused on reducing the amount of violent crime in our city, reducing the amount of gun violence, protecting and keeping people safe.

The Mayor added: "That is what they do every day. That's what they've done since last Friday when they were working with the detail out at Valhalla and on Shelbyville Road. And that's what they will continue to do."

As for Scheffler, he opened up on his experience of his arrest, saying: "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 go in, and I asked him, I was like ‘Can you just come hang out with me for a few minutes so I can calm down?…’"

"This one older officer looked at me when I was doing my fingerprints and looks at me and goes ‘Do you want full experience today?’ I looked at him and go, ‘I don’t know how to answer that.’ He was like ‘Come on man, do you want a sandwich?’ I was like ‘sure, I’ll take a sandwich. I didn’t eat breakfast yet.’ They were really kind."