
Will Zalaatoris was next to himself as his ball ended at the Greenside bunker at 14.
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Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla – you probably didn’t see Jordan Spieth throw a club before. His way to draw it is more verbal. But in the 16th hole on Saturday, he left a loose.
Spieth says he did not love him, and you have to trust him – he likes to swinging as he moves forward; This time the club crashed – but it’s the kind of things going to the players this year. Among the test, its importance and its place in the calendar, the players tell us who is in a state of zenwicker with their game. (It can be a party of one, called JJ spaun.) And after all, this is what makes it great. The masters are around the corner, and this is the medium -term report card. What no one do these pro smelt They deserve now?
Masters Week is 23 days away, and many can happen before, but not long ago the number 1 player in the world was sitting out, Healing a hole in the hand. Scottie Scheffler has not yet won – a very high standard he has set in recent years – and has shown signs of despair with any suggestions he will not make soon. But the clubs are jumping, and the balls are deliberately thrown to the nearest danger.
Meanwhile, Xander Schauffle is in a ball number – or at least he was – returning from damage to his ribs, and he is quite unhappy with him. Schauffle has spent the last 24 months almost exclusively playing better than average golf, but since he returned to last week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational has been two steps forward, two steps back. He followed the round of Friday-and 59th the right-right-telling reporters that he would “hit the ball” immediately in the range of running because his game was simply, “really bad”.
“In fact there is not much more that pass through my head except,” I’m hitting it like shit. I need to hit it better. I need to do everything better, ‘”Schauffle added on Saturday, after a third round 77. He says he feels after the 8-ptop compared to the rest of the tour, his body preventing it from returning faster than in tentacle AND Tpc sawtwo of the most difficult tests on the tournament. “It’s a real test of where my game is,” he said, “and this is obviously not very good.”
Understand! Schauffle reiterated those points joining the Vlach championship field next week in the last minute. It will be his last stop in front of the masters. He needs reps. And he is not alone. After losing the cut in the Sawgrass, Victor Hovland is playing the next week’s warates for the first time in three years.
Also down to Tampa will be Spieth, our accidental club, which felt so badly for what he walked up and fixed the area where his club was connected to the terrain. He is normally recorded for the Tampa event, but he feels very necessary now. He too is returning from injury and began this season, emphasizing long -term patience. But then he played well, and was fighting with the press promotion; Forget to be patient.
If he is concerned about anything, it is the constant feeling of denial. Spieth could not play last week’s signature event because he did not enter the field – a result of the end of the 50 leaders last year – and he did not take the exclusion of a sponsor. He wants some “home money” in the FedEx Cup ranking so that he can play cheaper and follow some excellent results. Therefore his disappointment in that neck stroke in the 16th that ended up in the water. “If I make that hole, four under are probably the first 20 until the end of the day,” said Spieth, “and instead I’m finishing in two under. I’ve had some shakes that were some shots this week, and the boys who are in the top do not make them.”
In previous years, we have seen a number of tour stars rise in front of the masters, and often shows when they reach the players. But even two of the best performers of this season have had serious views of concern this week. See: Collin Morikawa’s Rebutt of criticism on TV And Rory Mcilroy’s Practice a spectator’s round casting who had mocked him loudly in the 18th. (His response to the questions was similarly frozen.) Only last week, Mcilroy paid a Uber driver nearly $ 1,000 To drive some older clubs, he was safer from Jupiter to Orlando. You can only imagine how this week would go if he didn’t.
Despite all this, Mcilroy has worked in the quarrel himself and stayed in the Saturday when the Sawgrass and mother nature Combined to become final stress. This course does this at least once a year – the second round in 2023, the second round in 2022 and the first round here in 2021 – where the average note is multiple shots over par. Pete Dye’s work puts the players on the edge, they have them tweeting about the unjust places of the holes and staring when the wind pushes their balls into the bunkers. See: Will Zalaatoris in the 14th hole.
Is the two this place AND This time of year. If Saturday’s round would ever turn into a documentary, “What kind of blow was Zalaatoris THAT“Reaction – along the way to a fourfold noise – would be on the opening loans. He was one by one a small handful who rolled up with the thought of winning the biggest tour of the season so far, just to understand their game is not that regular yet. The scary thought approaches: they can end time.
