Getting into Valhalla during the PGA isn’t easy on a good day. Then came a perfectly imperfect storm [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Will Zalatoris urged his parents Richard and Catherine to stay home this weekend and not follow him around at the PGA Championship.

It’s not worth the trouble, Zalatoris told them. The headaches involved in getting in and around Valhalla Golf Club were simply too great.

And then came Friday morning, when a pedestrian was struck and killed by a bus just outside the gates in the predawn hours. A short time later Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked golfer, was getting led away in handcuffs following an incident with Louisville police.

“I hate that I was right earlier this week, but especially under these circumstances,” Zalatoris said. “It’s terrible.”

Zalatoris was in the middle of the 2 1/2-mile commute from the house he was renting for the week to the course when he received a text from his mother that seemed like a joke.

Scheffler, a two-time Masters’ champion and Zalatoris’ longtime friend, had been arrested by Louisville police and was heading to jail …