Pro golfer Travis Wadkins has been charged with assaulting two police officers during his arrest for public intoxication in Dallas on Tuesday night.
Wadkins was reportedly drunk at Terrelli’s restaurant when he started harassing employees, according to FOX 4 News. He was being taken into police custody for public intoxication when he spit on one police officer and kicked a detention officer in the knee while being booked in the jail. That officer needed surgery on her kneecap after the incident.
Travis Wadkins Dallas Police Department
Travis Wadkins tees of at the PNC Father/Son Challenge in 2017. Getty ImagesWadkins is a former Texas state champion and played collegiate golf at Wake Forest before going pro. He played in one PGA Tour event in 2012, missing the cut at the HP Byron Nelson Championship. He has made the cut once on the Korn Ferry Tour, where he finished T-57.
