Just two rounds in, the putting surfaces at Bay Hill resembled a U.S. Open, and Scheffler struggled to make a move up the leaderboard.
For someone who is often very stoic, the world No. 1 had just missed a 10-foot par putt on his final hole of the second round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. So, after tapping in for bogey, he picked his ball out of the cup and chucked it in the water adjacent to the green in frustration.
“Was in the middle until it broke left,” Scheffler was caught saying angrily to his caddie, Ted Scott. That capped a second-round one under 71, leaving him three under overall, nine strokes back of the 36-hole lead.of his putt on the last hole. “I was surprised the ball picked up speed as it was rolling. There’s no friction. When the ball starts rolling, you’re at the mercy of the wind and the bumps.”March 6, 2026 It wasn’t just that bogey that set the 29-year-old over the edge, though. The conditions of the greens prevented him from making the charge up the leaderboard he craved. Another example came on the par-4 15th. The four-time major champion’s shot from the greenside bunker bounced on the green and proceeded to roll 30 feet off the putting surface. However, he would impressively chip in for par. “ already dead. I’m not sure how much deader they can get. Like 15 is completely dead,” Scheffler said. “When it hit the green, I thought I hit it to three feet. And then it bounced crazy forward. I don’t know how that happened.”“It felt like Sunday afternoon greens, but it’s only Friday,” Harris English said after shooting 72. “I might have fixed three ball marks today because you can’t find them. It’s the U.S. Open in spring.” Added Collin Morikawa: “They’re getting brown and they’re going to be very, very brown—if not purple—by Sunday, and that’s just part of this week.”Max Schreiber is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated, covering golf. Before joining SI in October 2024, the Mahwah, N.J., native, worked as an associate editor for the Golf Channel and wrote for RyderCup.com and FanSided. He is a multiplatform producer for Newsday and has a bachelor's in communications and journalism from Quinnipiac University. In his free time, you can find him doing anything regarding the Yankees, Giants, Knicks and Islanders.
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