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Scottie Scheffler used the two largest weapons in his golf arsenal to get Memorial Control
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it Was Eerily similar to two weeks ago. Scottie Scheffler was coming together on Saturday while the driver of the manager surrounded, almost as if the number 1 player in the world was frozen in time while the course wreaked havoc for his competition. Then, with a flash, Scheffler, Just as he did in the PGA 2025 championshipHe captured the memorial tour with a finished influx that saw him make four birds in his last five holes to shoot a 68 without Bogey and take a lead with a blow to Ben Griffin on Sunday.
The day started quietly for Scheffler, but if you paid enough attention, his point of calling the third round was a study in what makes Scheffler dominant. It was an exhibition of two of his superpowers: patience and control.
After a pronounced PGA, Scottie Scheffler told the world his secret
Scheffler opened the day three of Griffin and Nick Taylor’s shooting, who co-directed after 36 holes in the 7th. He watched as Griffin quickly left at 10 under par. it without Jordan Spieth Yo-Yo up and down The leader. He noticed while Taylor went through a double-Bogey-Bogey-Birdie extension.
But through 13 holes, Scheffler made no noise. Good or bad. He had bird views from 15, 17, six, 20 and 15 meters. He did not make any of them. But he also made no mistake. He made 13 pars to start his day. In a difficult Muirfield Village track that has defeated the best of the game this week, Scheffler was more than happy to get his pars and continue. He saw Griffin come before him with six, but he knew there were many golf remaining in a devilish course to crush.
“I thought I was doing very well,” Scheffler told his vanguard. “About this golf course, even before, I think, today it would have been a very strong result. As I said, I felt like I could have got a little more from the round, but I felt like I was playing beautifully, and just a few lips here and would have changed the result a little, but in general, I was doing good things.
Patience patience patience
Scheffler has possessed over men golf for men for more than three years now playing an accurate golf style that rarely sees him recover from the procedures.
To defeat Scottie Scheffler, you need to do beat. He will not do it for you.
“Bumeri for me is Scottie’s in (8 under) and he simply – you know, you can’t rely on the shooting even tomorrow,” Spieth, who will enter the last round of Scheffler’s last round, said Saturday after his round. “
With the winds passing through the village of Muirfield on Saturday, Scheffler, as he almost always, appeared next to the superhuman control of his golf ball with his handcuffs. When the rare square goal came through the driver, Scheffler jumped back with a great blow to return to the position for par. He hit only eight of the 14 right roads, but found 13 of 18 greens in the regulation and was a perfect five-to-peak clash.
Of the 13 greens he hit in the regulation, Scheffler’s average proximity to the hole was 18 meters. This is a day of rest for him, but he underlines the control he exercises and his elite course management ability. When facing a large test in Muirfield, Scheffler chooses his way, the content to make pars and avoid danger, before hitting when the possibility appears on its own. He rarely crushes because he does not feel the need to do so.
“What impresses me the most is his club face control is elite,” Spieth told Scheffler. “It is probably the best he has ever had as much as the control of the club’s face. So his durability is funny. And then it just leads to his distance control by being phenomenal. There is a shot and the worst he will do is 15 meters, and most boys will hit a good there, but for him, he is, as if, I am. safe and make a single place and go to the next day.
“So it’s elite consistency and it’s due to its tempo and the control of the club’s face that yields these kinds of results.”
With Jack Nicklaus in the CBS transmission cabin as he approached the 18th Green, Scheffler stuck his approach to 13 meters.
“That’s how I played the game,” Nicklaus noticed while discussing how Scheffler methodically attacks golf courses.
A few minutes later, Scheffler rolled in Birdie Putt to connect the Griffin for the lead. Scheffler waited patiently 20 minutes before he finally had the lead alone and controlled the tournament.
Patience and Control: Scottie Scheffler doctrine.
Scottie Scheffler closes with Electric Birdie to connect the lead to the memorial
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