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Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.
Brennan Asplen/Getty Pictures
Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.
Brennan Asplen/Getty Pictures
Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.
Brennan Asplen/Getty Pictures
Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.
Brennan Asplen/Getty Pictures
Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.
Brennan Asplen/Getty Pictures
Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.
Brennan Asplen/Getty Pictures
Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.
Brennan Asplen/Getty Pictures
Shockingly, it had been 51 weeks since Scottie Scheffler final gained a golf event.
Within the time since Scheffler triumphed on the Gamers Championship, the World No. 1 racked up boatloads of top-10s, introduced dozens of programs to their knees along with his ball placing and dazzled along with his contact across the greens.
However he simply couldn’t get his putts to fall.
Scheffler got here to Bay Hill, armed with a brand new, mallet-style putter, and whereas he didn’t get the outcomes he needed in a first-round 70, he caught fireplace on the weekend. He one-putted his first two greens Sunday to cap a career-long streak of 9 consecutive one-putts and made each putt inside 15 ft.
He was in cruise management as he fired a final-round 66 Sunday to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational by 5 strokes over Wyndham Clark. It’s the biggest margin of victory on the occasion since 2012 and it’s Scheffler’s second profession victory at “Arnie’s Place” after he gained there in 2022 within the lead-up to his Masters title that 12 months.
“I attempt to be as constant as attainable out right here,” he stated. “It’s a troublesome factor doing that week-to-week out right here on Tour. The golf programs are actually robust, the competitors is actually robust, and I attempt to be as constant as attainable and produce the appropriate perspective every week. So I’m undoubtedly pleased with the outcomes over the past couple years, how constant I’ve been and it’s good to get a win this week.”
Scheffler solidifies his place atop the Official World Golf Rating. World No. 2 Rory McIlroy pale Sunday to a 76 whereas World No. 4 Viktor Hovland completed T36. In the meantime, the now-seven-time PGA Tour winner dominated.
A lot was remodeled Scheffler’s placing struggles final summer season and into this season, though he completed outdoors the highest 12 in simply three occasions in the course of the 2023 season and gained the PGA Tour’s Participant of the Yr Award.
“A part of the issue is simply making an attempt too laborious. It’s irritating to not have one of the best of myself, simply because I do know that I can putt rather well,” he stated. “It’s not like I’ve been a foul putter my entire profession. I’ve simply gone by means of a stretch the place it’s been robust.”
Within the fall, Scheffler began working with famend placing coach Phil Kenyon after which this week, after Rory McIlroy recommended he play one in an interview, confirmed up with a brand new mallet putter and went to work.
He misplaced a stroke and a half on the greens throughout Thursday’s opening spherical, however the change flipped on Friday when he shot 67 to surge right into a five-way tie for the lead. He led the sphere in placing in the course of the last spherical and completed fifth for the week, the primary time he’s been top-10 in placing for per week since his first PGA Tour win on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.
“Thursday, I feel, was a extremely essential day for me,” Scheffler stated. “I received off to a horrible begin with the putter. I hit a extremely dangerous putt to begin the day and I missed a pair different makeable ones on the primary few holes. After I received to the apply vary after, the dialogue was not what are we going to repair. It was how effectively that I did. And that each one goes again to the method that we’re engaged on and it’s not results-based.”
That’s to not counsel his usually otherworldly ball placing stats had been any lower than that this week. He completed first for the week in each SG: tee-to-green and SG: off-the-tee.
Nothing might section him Sunday as he posted one of many few bogey-free rounds of the day at Bay Hill, which performed as the toughest course to this point this season on Tour. He was the one participant within the prime 5 to interrupt 70 Sunday and had one of the best spherical of the day by two pictures total.
Even when his ball plugged within the bunker on the troublesome par-3 seventeenth. He shortly stepped up and blasted his ball to inside three ft.
However the crescendo got here two holes earlier on the fifteenth inexperienced when he drilled a 35-footer for birdie to open up a five-shot lead.
“That is the easiest way to cease questioning to someone about your placing,” NBC Analyst and placing guru Brad Faxon stated. “Persons are going to ask him subsequent week why are you placing so good.”
Faxon was proper. For at the very least this week, nobody will ask Scheffler why he’s placing so badly. He’s not.