How the rules helped Scottie Scheffler’s Miracle Pebble Beach par Save

Pebble Beach, Caliph. – Scottie Scheffler may be intolerant to glass but he is allergic to bogeys.

World no. 1 possesses an excellent set of skills, but maybe no one is better than his gift for good results.

“I never – and this is someone, this is Tiger, that’s in the history of golf,” Scheffler’s friend Said Rory Mcilroy. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen a golf game as many rounds without forgiveness as scottie. He just makes mistakes. It is so impressive.”

These words came on Tuesday morning at AT&T Pebble Beach pro-am, and only took Friday afternoon for world No.1 to bring them to life. The situation came in the 18th box, seconds after Scheffler pulled a car over the famous rock and on the beach. After a discussion with an official of the rules in the Tee box, Scheffler pulled to the beach to find his ball hid between a pile of small coastal rocks. After a later discussion of the player-Caddie, Scheffler cleared many of the rocks from his way, grabbed a wedge and opened the ball back on the road. An approach and two strokes later, he was in an exciting – and obviously “lucky” – par.

It was a quintesential moment Scheffler-A rare mistake followed by four consecutive strokes completely in control. Even his confession of the situation made the sounding sound strange.

“I saw a ball on the beach, went down there, found my ball, moved some rocks, hit it, hit it in green, with two strokes,” he said, Deadpan.

But the situation was aided by a considerable shift in the Golf Regulation; A 2019 change in the rules related to the “loose obstacles” that Scheffler said made all the changes.

“(If I hadn’t been able to remove the rocks), I don’t know if I would have been able to get my ball over the rocks in front of me,” Scheffler said. “I really didn’t take a good look. I would assume I would probably not have been able to catch it on top. I think I would probably have tried not to hit it (unless I would have been able to move the rocks) because if it confuses it, I am again in the box by hitting my fourth purpose. “

There are exceptions from the new rule 15.1, including determining the loose obstacles that would cause the ball of a player to move in place so that the player will not receive a 1-shot penalty. This meant that Scheffler had to leave a potentially devastating rock on the left side of the ball. Otherwise, he was free to clean the space under his ball for a relatively light chip.

“With the old rules I think I would probably have returned to tee just because of the way the rocks were around my ball and unpredictable to not be able to catch it on top,” he said. “But being able to move some rocks eventually made the goal easier.”

Scheffler rescued 18th Friday at 7 under the week, seven shots from the sign set by Runaway leader sepp straka. It has been a very routine week in Monterey for world no. 1 Bogeys in nine birds during the first two days represent a feat below its typical standards.

“I think that the last two days here I have not felt in peak performance,” he said. “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 ”

It would be foolish to wait for Scheffler to find his game or immediately from the gates after two months of resting from the tournament, but what we have seen so far is not exactly the cause of concern.

“To have only two bogeys, one of them is with a half-sank, it is very good,” he said. “Undoubtedly 18, a little luck saved at least one trick.”

Lucky, maybe, but this is a new grief for Scottie Scheffler. His result? Not so much.