Miss Open Open Scottie Scheffler left it with 1 steadfast thought

He reached the crushing favorite after winning three of his last four beginnings, including the 2025 PGA championship. Facing A brutal Oakmont song This would require precision, patience and a good short game, Scottie Scheffler seemed to be only get to win 2025 US Open When the week began.

One victory would give him four career diplomas and see him reach the 2025 open championship at Royal Portrush in the Grand Slam career granite.

In some other univers, 2025 US Open is the latest masterpiece of Scottie Scheffler. In that field, he traverses his way around the wet, iconic road playing away from danger, clashing for Par and overcoming a field that was discovered as worsening conditions over the weekend.

But it wasn’t THIS the reality within This reality in this open, Scottie Scheffler was mortal.

World no. 1 harshly hanging over the first two rounds and arrived at the weekend at four. He seemed ready to make the day jump in motion, getting up to the leader’s head while those forward, including His good friend Sam BurnsHe fell back to him.

Instead, Scheffler’s Putter, who has gone from Achilles’ heel to weapons in just over a year, betrayed him. He lost a four -legged, five -inch kick for open to open the third round of Saturday. Seven holes later, he lost a two -legged, five -inch kick at no.8. He also lost a six -foot blow to Birdie at no. 14. Scheffler even shot even on Saturday and found himself entering the last round seven blows back to Burns.

And yet, his name owned the manager’s table – the gravity trying to attract those who had better played through 54 holes below him.

Scheffler’s last round began with a DUD, making a double clumsy noise in the third. Now nine shots back, it seemed like Scheffler’s tournament had officially finished. And yet, it wasn’t. Scheffler Bird Bird Nr. 4 and 6 to return to four and even go to 35-par. As the heavens opened and jumped into Oakmont, Burns and other leaders began sliding again. When the game resumed after a nearly two-hour delay, it seemed as if Scheffler had life with Burns, Adam Scott, Jj Spaun and Victor Hovland being defeated by the conditions.

In the green in par-4 11, Scheffler faced a two-legged blow, five inches to stay within five contraction supremacy. He exploded it beyond the hole. He immediately danced with Birdie and the deficit turned into five and shrunk with everyone in trouble behind him. Scheffler needed a strong conclusion and to post something around even to see if it were enough.

But he couldn’t get there.

Scheffler bird efforts in 13 and 14 scared the hole, but did not fall. He survived the 15th and 16th before making Buridie at 17 to reach 3 long. By that time, it was clear: Scottie Scheffler could have won this US Open, joining the elite group of golf legends to soften Oakmont. On the contrary, a small portion of the lost short shocks and a weak weak week of steering that he saw him hit only 51 percent of his righteous roads led him to end up in a tie for seventh in four while Jj Spaun withdrew and exceeded everyone become a big champion.

Then, tired of grinding and still soaked by Sunday’s flood, Scheffler looked back on a major that could have been much different. He did not play his best. Scheffler a game did not make the journey to West Pennsylvania. But he was also not the beneficiary of the holidays ever needed to survive in the toughest golf test.

“My main taking is that I have fought so hard that I did this week,” Scheffler said. “I was really proud of how I was in four days. I did a lot of things there that could really be a kind of rest per week, and I never really took it a good rest that pushes you.

“Even today, I do it twice as early as, and then I come back, I Birdie 4. I hit what I feel like is a good shot at 5, and it’s just out of the first cut and I don’t have a stand again. Just small things like this add over a week. This is the second time this week where I thought the ball is in the fair, I do not actually. Pin with an iron stroke where the ball should be a foot from the hole and all of a sudden I have 20 meters.

Although he didn’t have his best things when he needed the most, Scheffler fought during the first three days in Oakmont. Where Bryson Dechambeau brought himself out early and Rory Mcilroy decided and falls From the quarrel, Scheffler scratched and clashed to give himself every chance to win his first US first.

Patented game Scheffler arrived on Sunday, but by that time, it was too late. There were many shots delivered, many lost opportunities, many short strokes that left.

In Oakmont, it is almost impossible to survive when you are in search mode. He Scheffler felt inevitable even while his tee shots continued to sail to the church bunkers and to be tied in punitive roughly speaks of the atmosphere of inevitability he has created while climbing to the top of the sport.

But even if Scottie Scheffler, with all his rare golf gifts, cannot bend the sport to his will without his tools.

“If I had four days like me today, I think it would have been a different story,” Scheffler said. “I was playing a kind behind the eight ball most of the week hitting the ball in approximately. In general, proud of how I encountered, I gave myself a chance, but ultimately I didn’t have it.”

Scottie Scheffler could have won this US Open. It was there to take the weekend, begging the best player in the world to do what he has done so many times and fight him from the field.

But this time the blows did not fall, the answers arrived too late, and Scottie Scheffler left Oakmont with one thing falling on his head.

“Some other strokes fall today, I think it’s a slightly different story,” Scheffler said.