Fresh off a win at the Memorial, Scheffler has “lost’’ to a total of nine players over his last eight tournaments. He enters this U.S. Open as the clear man to beat, writes Bob Harig.
PINEHURST, N.C. – Scottie Scheffler is a Pinehurst neophyte. Before this week, he had never been to the famed North Carolina course. His experience at the U.S. Open venue consisted of studying flyovers and video.Donald Ross’ dastardly inverse saucer greens are known to repel good shots. Maybe Scheffler doesn’t have enough time to study the No. 2 courses nuances, its subtleties. Maybe his sometimes fragile putting will be put under extreme duress.
“It's a good place to be. I like how my game's feeling right now. I feel like I've been playing some good golf. It's great to see some results too and some wins. Out here the margins are so small between winning and losing. It's a putt or a shot here or there.
“I would love to be on the opposite end of this,’’ said Morikawa, who is now ranked seventh in the Official World Golf Ranking. “I mean, we talk about progress. Look, I've done it before, so it's not like I'm trying to learn how to close out a Sunday round. I'm still just trying to put together the whole golf game and kind of piece everything together.
“No, if I could play like this heading into every major, I would take it in a heartbeat,’’ Morikawa said. “Scottie's obviously proven himself this year and the past, let's call it three, three-and-a-half years of what he's capable of doing, but majors are majors and you got to show up and you got to have the good bounces, especially I think week, a lot of the sand dunes and the bushes around, like, things got to go your way and then hopefully week is one of my good ones.
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