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Scottie Scheffler took control of the PGA championship in a way he just beat
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Charlotte, NC – ninety minutes is all it took for scottie sccheffler to put a drowning in 2025 PGA Championship Saturday at Hollow Quail Club.
He did this in the fashion of the Scheffler trademark, using a variety of physical and mental tools others can only dream of possessing.
Inevitable, inevitable, inevitable, ruthless. Choose your surname to describe world no. 1. You cannot be mistaken after he fired a six-nine third round to take a three-stroke lead and spend within 18 holes of a third career title.
Scheffler, with his acceptance, threw it around the Quail Hollow Club through the first two rounds, entering Saturday at five under and two shots back of the leader with 36 jhonatan Vegas holes. Oh, to be able to tear it like that.
He opened his third round with a noise, but birds no. 4, no. 5 and no. 7, grabbing part of the superiority in the 43rd hole of the tournament. He stayed in a blocked package of contenders for the next six holes while a large championship leader was finally set.
Then, as a boa coercion, Scheffler stifled life out of the tour with only four shakes.
The first came in par-4 14 run. Scheffler climbed into the Tee box and hit a three -tree wood from 305 yards in three legs. The result? An eagle and full lead.
“He hit him really strong and was lucky to get up there in green,” Scheffler said for his shot at 14 AD. “From that distance, yes, I executed the goal. Did I execute it thinking I hit him with two legs or whatever it was?
Scheffler’s second glittering hit came on the 16th Street, facing 198 yards on a right peak with the wind going straight. With a small side lie, Scheffler faced a second unsafe blow. He drew 7-And and hit his approach on 12 feet. Where Bryson Dechambeau and others made Bogey, Scheffler made a slight principle.
Next came par-3 17, the hardest hole of the day, which had already claimed victims in Dechambeau (Double Bogey) and Jon Rahm (Bogey).
Uncontrolled by the size of the moment, Scheffler drew once again 7-when and cleaned it to 17 meters. He rolled in putt for good extent to extend his lead to two.
But perhaps the best moment for everyone in Scheffler’s unconscious 90-minute extension came to the Quail Hollow closing hole, par-4 18.
The 18th has hit the field all week – Bryson Dechambeau suggested the best competitive strategy for mere mortal people from tee was simple: “hit and hope”. Scheffler split the right road with his car, but his ball rolled into a divotine.
That kind of bad rest has broken many big dreams. But where others could have allowed the pressure to penetrate and speed them up, Scheffler was greedy. He struck an 8-and nine-legged under the hole, poured into a bird’s stroke and scored a moment that removes oxygen with a fist pump.
“F – K yes,” Scheffler shouted while his fist pierced North Carolina’s wet air.
On Saturday in Quail Hollow Club, the contenders raised and fell.
Rahm split the lead, but it fell again. It traces with five. Dechambeau led alone, but played the last three holes in three. It traces with six.
While a quiet week became a PGA championship late Saturday afternoon, Scheffler found what so much eludon in the most oppressed golf bins: calm in chaos.
“I think I try to focus as much as I can on the execution of the goal, and there are things there you can’t control,” Scheffler told his ability to steel himself when others are destroyed. “I can’t check what other boys are doing. I can’t check the bad gasts of the wind. I can’t control how the ball will react when it strikes the green. All I can do is try to hit the goal I am trying to hit. That’s what I’m focusing on there. A few days work better than others.”
At the beginning of the week, Scheffler was asked which part of another player’s game would steal if forced. He talked about how much he learns to play against the best players in the world. Rory Mcilroy’s journey and Jon Rahm Drew’s fire mentions, among other things. All superpowers in themselves, but surely none is as big as Scheffler’s.
Two years ago in Liv Singapore, Brooks described his ability to raise his game In degrees like “the ability to close and go somewhere where I think many boys can’t go”.
That superpower now belongs to Scheffler. The ball hook is immaculate, the pristine short game and the putter has become a weapon.
But Scheffler’s separator in these moments is his ability to settle in the chaos that wobbles around him. He has an innate ability to block the destruction of the great champion, rely on his preparation and execute his plan. Blinders stay, emotions stay under control and he gets up while others look at their big dreams clash and burn.
There were 18 holes in Quail Hollow, but it felt as if Scottie Scheffler put his name on the Wanamaker trophy in 90 minutes on Saturday.
All that remains is another walk through chaos on Sunday … and carving.
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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached in Josho.schrock@golf.com.

