Golf has a dominator in the figure of Scottie Scheffler. Rain or shine, the heat is stifling or the wind is hurricane-force, your life is altered by the birth of your child or by the confusion of a sheriff who takes you to the cell and photographs you like a prisoner in a Louisville county. , the performance of the world’s number 1 continues to be optimal.
He won the Memorial, the fifth tournament he has won this season, a very special tournament because it is from Jack Nicklaus, to close a legendary triptych along with the victories in the Arnold Palmer and the Masters, whose stage was designed by Bobby Jones. The prestigious The Players and the RBC Heritage complete the rep�quer. No golfer since Tom Watson in 1980 had completed his PGA Tour tour before the US Open, which is always played the third week in June. It is the fourteenth title on the great circuit since February 2022. And the machine will not stop.
It was a US Open Sunday, where the heat in Ohio He made the greens hard, which made play extremely difficult. There were barely a handful of rounds under par, only Colin Morikawa among those at the top, the one who at least, with his 71 strokes, carried the tension until the last hole. Scheffler, on the other hand, wearing a crepe cap in memory of Grayson Murray, did not find a peaceful game. He made two bogeys in the first nine holes – and a birdie – and another error on the 17th. And with that card of 74 strokes he had to secure par to add another victory.
“It means a lot to me to be able to shake his hand and win this golf tournament.” with all the history here and what Jack Nicklaus has meant to the game,” said the undisputed favorite for the US Open this week. His supremacy is such that as Tiger says, “if he kicks badly, he is among the top 10 If you kick decently, you win. And if he kicks well there is no one to catch him.”
Scheffler added another four million dollars more bag in prizes this season. He already accumulates 24 million. Ted Scott, his caddy, an assistant who on the PGA Tour usually receives 10 percent of the prize, would currently be forty-third on the tour’s earnings list.
