Schauffle explains Scheffler’s course, distributes driver test myths

Dublin, Ohio – Does what does Xander Schauffle remember for his failed driver test in the 2019 open championship?

“I’ve lit fire and threw them all under the bus,” he said Wednesday in the memorial, nearly six years later, getting bored in memory. “I remember there was a line, and I was like,” I’m trampling it. “

random In question came to Royal Portrush, when R&A – the governing body that sets the tour, with which Schauffle had a harsh word – chose 30 players randomly for driver testing. Some the good failed, though Schauffle’s test was the only one who escaped confidentiality.

If that sounds known, this is because something similar happened to Rory Mcilroy two weeks ago in the Championship PGA; His driver was selected for the test, did not pass the test, and although some others failed, he was also the first to be made public. Mcilroy put in a backup, which he struggled to check throughout the week. But when the news spread to social media with the scandal fraud, which some other senior players have said that since then is a complete misunderstanding of the situation – including Schauffle.

Set quiet in a reversible chair in the front of the Muirfield Village interview room, Schauffle held court as he explained what he views as the shortcomings of the testing and why Mcilroy’s “failure” was perfectly common. He offered the overview of how he would change the process. He tried to ignore the failed test of the best player in the world. And he reminded the golf world why he has become one of the most delightful, fun game interviews.

It is worth starting in portrait, however. Schauffle said Wednesday that he did not remember his exact reaction in 2019, but when I found that quotation was extremely similar to today’s views:

Schauffle, 2019, Portrush: “What is the right thing to do? Just try the whole field. It is simple and simple.”

Schauffe, 2025, Muirfield Village: “I would try them all and make sure I would get everyone’s serial number with a driver. Very easy.”

Full credit for consistency. In Schauffle’s opinion, how big is a deal when these drivers “fail” these tests?

“Really really normal,” he said. “I didn’t even understand the negative opinion of the public for him, he really didn’t record in my head because I know, one, is like, we hit our drivers a lot, so they crawl and then they cross over a line. We don’t know the line – we have no data. If our driver is not in physically cracks and you start hitting these balls; then You know your driver is broken. ”

Schauffle also wanted to make it clear that a driver who fails in a test offers minimal advantage.

“It’s not like you will be a guy who has 170 ball speeds and then your driver suddenly is hot and you have 185. It’s not like a cleft stick. That’s not just how golf works. You either swing tightly or hit hard or do not.”

The reason that is such a great job for the good to pass in a backup, Schauffle explained, is because no matter what the specifications say, every driver performs a little differently.

“They can all have the same writing and logos on them, but the composition of each head and the shaft is a little different,” he said. “Much better now than I used to, but it’s just difficult for us to do one kind – we have our reliable club, and then you get it out and pass it … There is little from a period of grace where you have to get used to it.”

He also doesn’t believe anyone is deliberately playing a hot driver. “Because the whole problem is, when your driver is hot, it will break down right thereafter. That’s how it works,” he said. It is a familiarity, not the tired face, that carries its value.

Because Schauffle does not see the failure of a driver’s test as negative, he did not think twice to mention in a PGA interview that Scottie Scheffler-winner of the tournament and no. 1 world-— has his failed in the same test set as mcilroy.

“I was the one who discovered it, in essence, for Scott,” Schauffe intentionally said. “For me, it was more like, a loan for how good it was, you know? I didn’t understand – I apologized. I was like, ‘Sorry, boy. I was not trying to have a question in your media as you just won another great.’

“It was more, like this guy just used his copy and absolutely rinsed the field again.”

Scheffler really rinses the field. First he took his Thursday’s partners Friday playing, Schauffle and Mcilroy. And then he cooked everyone else, finally winning by five. At the press conference of his winner, he offered a simple, thoughtful explanation.

“Testing the driver is something that regularly happens in the tournament,” Scheffler said. “My driver failed me this week. We had a feeling that it would come because I used that driver for more than a year. I was a kind of luck for her to last so long, I felt like.”

He added that the current testing system was “going halfway” and suggested that they either leave the players or include a stronger system that tests everyone. Like Schauffle, he called for a stronger protocol.

“I thought it was a kind of madness when you try 30 boys and the other 120 go into a spruce,” Schauffe said. “Kind is a strange kind.”

He and Scheffler enter the week as players number 3 and number 1 in the world, respectively, while no.2 Mcilroy is going through this week. Scheffler enters a heater after finishing 1-1-T4 in its last three starts. Schauffle has played well, but not to its standards; He said he feels a sense of urgency as the summer season reaches the tournament.

“I know there are some major events of the year and I just have to come up for,” he said. He still has a lot of shaky thoughts, he said, as he continues to simplify.

“I feel like I was a little stagnant on the ball, getting back and sitting there, you can almost say I’m thinking one, two, three, four things. If I could get it down to one or two, that would be ideal.”

Schauffle still has six weeks before returning the tournament to Portrarian.

We are thinking he will bring a spare driver.

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