For any truly transcendent golf talent, pursuing Grand Slam career is the challenge of a life.
This is partly from design. Winking each of the four main Golf Championships – the conquest of Augusta National ghosts, the US Open challenge, Rolling Linksland of the Open Championship and the PGA Championship – requires a stunning talent mix. Great Majardo asks different questions and requires different skills. You can’t get a Grand Slam career on the back of a great swing or just a technological advantage. You need to have talent and courage and good luck and a heavy dose of art. Just elite elite, indeed full The players will end the trip.
Scottie Scheffler is only half the way to the Grand Slam career. As you know most likely, world No.1 has won the masters and PGA Championship. Surely two different championships still stand between him and Grand Slam Glory: US Open, every year the most difficult test in Golf, and the open championship, the experiment every year of golf with the connection of the mind of the United Kingdom and Ireland. Like all grandparents’ hopes, Scheffler will have to find a new outfit if he triumphs in one of these diplomas.
But as it prepares for the open championship of next week with another task of connections, Scottish Open this week’s scottishScheffler admitted that he could disrupt the difference between his two remaining feet of Slam career quite simple. It all starts, he says, with his short game.
“When we are in the United States, if we are practicing a short game about green, playing a round of practice, I will surely use two clubs. I will use a 60 degree and 56,” Scheffler said on Wednesday. “Here, I’m bringing like five or six clubs. Sometimes up to an 8-Hekuri.”
As Scheffler explained, the depth of the difference between golf and open golf links can be found more clearly about the greens.
“Let’s compare SH.BA open with the open championship, two types of completely different challenges,” Scheffler said. “When you miss a green in the SH.BA, you will essentially hit a similar type of shot every time where you are just opening your face with a 60 and trying to play like a bunker to get the ball near the hole, extremely difficult for anyone. Something I would say no one has perfected how to do it.”
The shot of the shot is the essence of golf links. To be successful, you need to keep the ball low and roll, and you need to be willing to work with what gives you the land. However, play Wedge is where good connecting of players separated from excellent. The same can be said in US Open, says Scheffler, but with another application.
“You spend here and I miss a green, and I’ll go there and appreciate the lie,” Scheffler said. “Sometimes I can get a truly clean lie and sometimes I can get a thick lie. With a thick lie I will have to make a more traditional open face with a 60, play like a bunker shot. Again, a clean lie, and I can be using an 8-and to raise the slope or maybe a 50-grade test.
For players with the degree of scheffler creation skills and creative skills, the difference between the main places is like ice cream aromas.
Scheffler said Wednesday that he does not have a favorite among the open and open US championship. “I like both golf styles,” he said. “I like to be beaten at US Open. This is a fun battle between us and the golf course. And come here, you have to do a lot of things I wouldn’t do normally.”
The best players are partitions – the best to make big things feel small. For Scheffler, is it just appropriate is the biggest challenge of his golf life can be distilled in a simple question: 56, or 60?
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James Colgan
Golfit.com editor
James Colan is a news editor of news and features in Golf, writing stories on the website and magazine. He manages the hot germ, golf media vertical and uses his experience on camera across brand platforms. Before entering Golf, James graduated from Siracuse University, during which time he was a caddy scholarship receiver (and Astuta Looper) in Long Island, where he is. He can be reached on James.colgan@golf.com.
