![]() ![]() “Obviously, had an off week there, or I probably would've won that one,” he said in his pre-Open interview Tuesday. It kept on going like that, to the point where he said “I felt like I was putting toward a moving cup.” At the Memorial earlier this month, he missed a playoff by a single shot despite gaining an unheard-of 20 shots against the field from tee to green. In an interview in late May, when he tied for third at the Charles Schwab Challenge, he said his struggles started at the Masters, where he was trying to defend his title but never got comfortable on the greens. ![]() Still, he is 90 notches worse on the putting list than he was last year, and Scheffler isn't hiding from reality. He leads the tour in hitting greens in regulation, a stat that, by itself, can hamper putting statistics because players normally get closer when they're scrambling and chipping from mere feet away than flying wedges in from 100 yards. Numbers from one analytics guru showed that through May, he was the only player to gain 15 or more strokes from tee to green this year he's done it four times. Scheffler leads the PGA Tour in scoring average and strokes gained on approach shots. Analytics, to say nothing of leaderboards, spell it out. “But if I have a 6-footer and I hit a really good putt and one time it goes in and one time it doesn't, everyone is like ‘Oh, why did he miss that putt?’”īut missing those putts comes at a price. ![]() Open other than Tiger Woods, who last accomplished that in 2008. it doesn’t make a huge difference,'" said Scheffler, who is trying to become the only No. “If I hit a really good 6-iron, sometimes it’s going to go to 2 feet and sometimes it’s going to go to 15 feet, and it's like, ‘well. Open starting Thursday, Scheffler finds himself experimenting with different putters and also trying to give himself a little more credit for putts he hits well that just don't go in. 148 in the PGA Tour in putting this year. 1 in the latest world golf ranking is sitting at No. ![]()
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