The 105th PGA Championship and the second major golf championship of the year is in chaos today as a pedestrian was killed by a shuttlebus in early morning darkness, and world number one golfer and reigning Masters champion Scottie Scheffler was arrested on a total of four felony and misdemeanor charges for failing to stop and obey police officers investigating the...
A mid round birdie barrage and a textbook Sunday back nine powered world number one golfer Scottie Scheffler to his second Masters Championship in three years. His sparkling final round 68 featured seven birdies, including three consecutive at holes eight through 10, a tricky if not treacherous stretch of the golf course. Scheffler finished at 11-under, four shots...
It was 1977, and before their famous “Duel in the Sun” at Turnberry for the Open Championship, Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus had another duel for the ages at the Masters. Watson had been in contention the entire way, tied for the lead after both the second and third rounds, and was in the final pairing on Sunday. Jack opened poorly, snarling acidly that, “My putter...
It sounds like an old school comic book exclamation: GREAT SCOTT! Maybe it’s Spider-man, or maybe Superman, or maybe it’s Captain America, but whomever, add Adam Scott and Scottie Scheffler to that list as they both shot themselves into contention at the 150th Open Championship, the de facto world championship of golf. Reigning Masters champion and...
BROOKLINE, MA – Ordinarily Your Author despises softball questions lobbed at pro athletes like hanging curves, but once in a while those off-brand inquiries lead somewhere interesting. And today at the U.S. Open World Number 1 Scottie Scheffler was prompted into giving everyone news they could use. The question posed to Scheffler was a bit dork-a-tronic:...
The kid looks rock solid, but we’ve all been wrong before on Saturday night. Scottie Scheffler has a three shot lead on the eve of championship Sunday here at the 2022 Masters and looks unflappable. Completely in control of his game and emotions, Scheffler’s downright artistic rounds of 69-67-71 in the swirling gusts Augusta National has conjured for the...