Scottie Scheffler chucks putter in US Open second of frustration
The greens at Pinehurst No. 2 have Scottie Scheffler seeing crimson.
The world’s top-ranked golfer flipped his putter into the air on the U.S. Open after his 17-foot putt for par on the fifteenth gap kissed the lip of the opening, however wouldn’t drop in.
Scheffler, who had made par on holes 10-14 to open Day 2 of the match, sank a seven-inch putt for a bogey on the par-3 gap, his first of the day.
He entered the second day of the match tied for forty sixth with a 1-over 71.
The greens at Pinehurst No. 2 have been seemingly designed to elicit such reactions from the most effective golfers, with defending U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark describing them as “borderline” unplayable.
He wasn’t alone.
“When [course designer] Donald Ross did this golf course and made the greens this extreme, I don’t suppose he supposed it to be operating at 13 on the stimpmeter,” Tiger Woods mentioned earlier within the week, referring to the system that measures inexperienced speeds. “They have been the velocity of fairways. It’s going to be a terrific take a look at and a terrific struggle of attrition this week. It’s going to be a variety of enjoyable for all of us.”
Possibly not for Scheffler, anyway.
He additionally struggled along with his tee shot on 17, sending it 203 yards right into a bunker to the left of the inexperienced, and eliciting a telling response from his personal caddie.
“Possibly the worst golf shot I’ve ever seen you hit,” he was overheard saying on the published.
The 27-year-old got here into the weekend hoping for a quieter expertise than what he skilled on the PGA Championship earlier this month, when a visitors incident close to the Valhalla Golf Course in Louisville led to his arrest.
He was launched in time to play his second spherical — a shocking 5-under 66 on the day — en path to an eight-place end.
All fees in opposition to Scheffler have been finally dropped, although he’s nonetheless coping with the fallout from the whole scene.
“It’s not one thing that I really like reliving, simply because it was pretty traumatic for me being arrested going into the golf course,” he mentioned earlier than the Memorial Event, during which he completed first at 8-under.
