Memorial: Scottie Scheffler continues to indicate why he’s one of the best

One other day, one other under-par spherical for Scottie Scheffler.

He performed flawlessly at the Memorial on Thursday, and his rating ought to have been a lot decrease than the 5-under 67 he posted.

Scheffler missed a couple of good birdie appears to be like over his first few holes, then had an ill-advised miss on the par-5 fifth, resulting in a bogey. However as Scheffler defined afterward, a large chunk of mud sat on the proper facet of his ball within the fifth fairway, which pressured his method to overlook 40 yards left.

“Due to the mud on the ball, you’ve gotten completely no management over the place it’s going to go,” Scheffler defined.

“I felt like we tried to do one of the best we might to get it up there someplace, however yeah, you simply can’t management it.”

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However in true Scheffler style, he didn’t let that trouble him. As an alternative, he carried himself like he normally does, as one of the best participant on this planet ought to, and made 4 extra birdies on the again 9.

“Going out this morning, we had slightly softer greens, slightly softer fairways, and I used to be in a position to put up an excellent rating,” Scheffler assessed.

“It felt like I hit numerous high quality photographs in the present day. It felt like my ball hanging was actually good, and I used to be in a position to gap a couple of putts as nicely, so total, I used to be fairly happy with the spherical in the present day.”

His most spectacular birdie of the day got here on his final gap, the troublesome par-4 18th.

The 18th ranked as essentially the most difficult gap on Thursday, taking part in 0.36 photographs above par. It yielded solely 9 birdies whereas producing eight double bogies or worse. Victor Perez of France even ended his promising spherical with a triple, due to a comedy of errors in entrance of this elevated placing floor.

Nonetheless, Scheffler made it look simple. He hit his greatest tee shot of the day proper down the center of the golf green, leaving solely 138 yards into this 478-yard par-4.

He then caught a wedge to 18 inches and calmly tapped in for his sixth birdie of the day, briefly giving him sole possession of the lead.

“I really feel like I’m at all times attempting to remain as affected person as attainable,” Scheffler defined.

“Whether or not or not you’re capturing actually low scores or capturing round par, I feel I’m at all times attempting to plot my means across the golf course for positive.”

Scheffler now enters Friday’s spherical trailing Adam Hadwin by a stroke. However by the top of the second spherical, it could shock no one if Scheffler held the solo lead. He’s taking part in in a league of his personal, and no one appears to be significantly near him—like Jack Nicklaus within the late 60s and early 70s.

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Enjoying By means of. Be sure you take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You’ll be able to comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko as nicely.