Scottie Scheffler makes unimaginable in Pebble Beach

Shank. Rocket hosel. Draws part of the brain. These are concepts that most players are very familiar with. World no. 1 Scottie Scheffler, on the other hand? Not so much. But those terms and their synonyms passed the lips of the royal player of the year on Friday evening at Pebble.

Incredibly, he was talking about himself.

Halfway through 2025 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AMHis first start of the season, Scheffler is T20 to seven under. Not bad for someone who injured his hand in a strange kitchen accident during Christmas This forced him to lose the first month of the season.

However, it is not good enough for the best undisputed player in the world. In his oppressor after Friday evening, Scheffler explained how he was fighting “Rust” in his first tour of the year.

“I think that the last two days here I haven’t felt, you know, in peak performance at all,” Scheffler said on Friday. “I think if you look at my won strokes with ball numbers, they are probably not close to what they would normally be and I think that’s just a little competitive rust, kind of turning my feet under me and having with Played Golf Tournament Golf. “

But what is considered “fighting” for Scheffler is much different from most players. For example, he has made only two frauds in two rounds. And one came to his first hole after a strange car that he attributed “a brain -type thing”.

Another good example came to his last hole in the second round, the Para-5 18th Pebble, where he made a wonderful savings after hitting his car on the beach, who James Colgan of Golf wrote in detail here. Scheffler joked for a different car on Friday evening evening, saying, “Scottie is pulling it, holy smoke.”

But none of those “battles” included the scary word: shank. This term arose when Scheffler was asked about his only bad other things so far in the tournament.

A reporter carefully tried to address the stroke during the Scheffler media scrum, saying, “Someone mentioned that you may have had a ball that is really close to Hosel?”

Scheffler replied, “Yes, I did, I don’t know, as 12 or something like that.”

The reporter went on, carefully, “I don’t want to use the words but -“

Before Scheffler interrupted, “No, I did. There were some things I did today I think were just a little rust.” Immediately after he cleared any confusion, describing the blow as a “half-shank”.

Scheffler’s honesty was refreshing, even if its use of “speech s” was shocking. But he missed the hole. His strange hosel-rockets came to the 11th PaBble’s Para-4 Hole on Friday, where he made his second tour of the tournament.

And while it can make up as a “shank” to Scheffler’s standards, it cannot be from anyone else.

After hitting his shooting 291 yards on the 11th Street, Scheffler had 82 yards left on top and was thinking of birds. But after grabbing his wedge sock, his approach landed in a left Greenside bunker, 40 meters from the hole. A weak bunker shot and a two-putt resulted in a Bogey-5.

Scheffler was able to put his way home, including heroic one to 18, to end with a two-nine year.

Despite Shank and a little “Rust”, Scheffler admitted that he was generally happy with the results so far in his first start from the damage.

“To have only two bogeys, one of them is with a half-sank, is very good. My first tour of the tour and then just a little rust, the thing of the brain seed type. In addition, I did a job Good keeping my focus, keeping the golf course in front of me.

Scheffler goes to the third round in Pebble Beach Saturday at 11:56 AM etwhere he will begin on the seventh day of stroke from the superiority of Sepp Straka.

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