Scottie Scheffler told fellow inmates it was 'BULLS***' that he was in jail as details emerge of golf star's time in a cell after arrest at PGA Championship

Scottie Scheffler reportedly told his fellow inmates it was 'bulls***' that he was in jail after his arrest outside the PGA Championship on Friday.

Scheffler was arrested Friday morning, with stunning images showing him handcuffed as he was taken to jail for not following police orders during a pedestrian fatality investigation.

In a span of four hours, the top-ranked golfer in the world was arrested wearing gym shorts and a T-shirt, dressed in an orange jail shirt for his mug shot, stretched in a jail cell to stay loose and returned to Valhalla Golf Club dressed and ready for his 10:08 a.m. tee time.

Louisville Metro Police Department said Scheffler was booked on four charges, including second-degree assault of a police officer after his vehicle dragged an officer to the ground.

Scheffler said the incident was a 'big misunderstanding amid a chaotic situation' but a man who was locked up with Scheffler on Friday has given some details about their time in custody together to TMZ.

The man didn't even know who Scheffler was until a police officer said: 'You know you're talking to the number one golfer in the world, right?'

'He kept saying it was bulls*** that he was there,' the man added.

It's also claimed Scheffler drew a large crowd in the jailhouse with staff and officers all trying to get a glimpse of the reigning Masters champion.

On Saturday, Scheffler's lawyer insisted the world No 1 will go to trial to clear his name if charges of assaulting a police officer are not dropped.

Scheffler is confident the matter will be resolved 'fairly quickly' ahead of his scheduled arraignment in a Louisville court on Tuesday.

But his legal team are adamant that will not involve accepting a plea deal, saying they will challenge any effort to apportion blame on the golfer over the early-hours episode.

Scheffler's lawyer Steve Romines said: 'They will either be dropped or we will go to trial, because Scottie didn't do anything wrong. So we're not interested in any sort of settlement negotiations or anything like that. It was just a big miscommunication.'

The 27-year-old was accused of failing to stop for police as he attempted to gain entry to Valhalla Golf Club at a point when they were managing traffic in the wake of a fatal collision between a bus and a member of the tournament's security staff, John Mills.

The police report said Scheffler failed to comply with instructions and then drove away from an officer, Bryan Gillis, causing the latter to be dragged along by the two-time Masters winner's car.

While Scheffler has refused to discuss the specifics of the incident that led to his dramatic arrest, and necessitated him warming up for the second round in a jail cell, Romines has offered fresh details.

He said: 'There had been a traffic fatality down the road and so there were different traffic directions going on and traffic control officers were advising different things. Scottie was advised by one officer to go around the traffic and turn left into the facility.

'But the officer who charged him obviously didn't know that. So, that's where the miscommunication occurred.

'It was kind of a perfect storm. One thing needs to be clear — he didn't drive through any accident scene, or through any investigation. None of that happened.'

The charges against Scheffler were listed by local police as second-degree assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding traffic signals from an officer.

It remains to be seen if the charges will be dropped, though the mayor of Louisville, Craig Greenberg, has stated there was no body-cam footage leading up to the 6.01am arrest.

'The officer did not have body- cam footage turned on during the incident,' he said. 

'We will release footage that we have (but) to my knowledge, we have not yet discovered any video of the initial contact between Officer Gillis and Mr Scheffler.'

The mayor declined to comment on the possibility of Scheffler being cleared. 'Right now, the case is in the hands of our county attorney and I will let the legal process play out,' he said.