Scottie Scheffler forced to climb over fence and take a drop after poor tee shot at PGA Championship... as he loses four strokes in three holes and falls down the leaderboard

After starting his Friday with issues off the course, Scottie Scheffler had a rough start to his Saturday on it after the world No. 1 scored poorly in the first four holes.

Scheffler was running on adrenaline on Friday morning after his shocking arrest, but was able to play well enough to finish the day at nine-under through two rounds.

However, his start to Saturday's third round was nothing like the day before - with Scheffler going double bogey-bogey-bogey on holes 2-4 with some truly awful golf.

His tee shot on the second hole found a fairway bunker and his rescue shot out of the sand found very deep rough. Shot number three was caught up in that thick grass and forced him to take a fourth shot long before needing two putts to hole out for a double.

After carding that six on the par-four second, he hoped to recover on the third hole. Unfortunately, his six-foot putt for par just lipped out and he tapped in for a bogey.

Scottie Scheffler was forced to take a drop after a poor run of holes at the PGA Championship

On hole 2, Scheffler's third shot from some deep rough was chunked and he double bogeyed

Hole 3 saw Scheffler's putt for par lip out and he dropped yet another stroke dropped

That led to his tee shot on the fourth hole, which was sailing left and rolled through the gallery

It came to rest in a penalty area, forcing Scheffler to take a drop and a penalty stroke

His next shot was duffed as he took too much turf in his swing, holing out for yet another bogey

That led to his tee shot on hole no. 4 - which went very left, bounced short of the gallery and rolled through the legs of the fans, past the cart path and under a fence.

The ball came to rest in the penalty area and Scheffler was forced to take a drop just over 60 feet from the hole off the green.

All that was required was a simple chip on, but Scheffler duffed his shot and it came up short of the short grass. His fourth shot went past the hole and he finally rolled home a bogey putt from ten feet out.

It was a horrid start for Scheffler but things didn't get much better.

He shot two-over 73 in the third round to close at seven-under for the tournament and drop from fourth to a tie for 24th. 

It snapped a string of 42 straight rounds of par or better for the world's top player, dating to Saturday at the Tour Championship last year.

Scheffler shot two-over 73 in the third round to drop from fourth to a tie for 24th at Valhalla

'I definitely did not feel like myself today,' he said.

'Yesterday happened, I did my best to recover from it and come out and compete. This morning was not my usual routine for a round. At the end of the day, I came out hoping to have a good round but I wasn´t able to get it done, which was frustrating.'

It's been a wild 48 hours for the Masters champion after he was arrested and charged with felony second-degree assault of a police officer as well as three other non-felony charges.

Scheffler's lawyer says that the golfer plans to plead not-guilty if the charges are not dropped and said that his client 'did nothing wrong'.

It was revealed by the Mayor of Louisville on Saturday that the officer who was allegedly dragged by Scheffler's vehicle did not have his bodycam on to record the incident.