Sorry, Scottie Scheffler fans – PGA is not over yet. Here are 5 reasons why

Charlotte, NC – Golf tour, though they play in real life, often follow the plot line of a good novel mystery. Figures that look important early – Ryan Gerads and Ryan Foxes – prove to be irrelevant at the end. And yet, every round is filled with evidence of what is going to come.

Get Agatha Christie’s novel Zero – And take it seriously! Despite the backdrop of Golf Club, Christie intersects the stories of a dozen characters, their education, their professions and their desires at a specific moment, singular: a murder. Some characters think of unintentionally and ignorant; Others can change fate. After all, one of them does the work. But they were helped by another’s actions. Sounds like a sport we all know and love?

What makes Christie so special as a storyteller is that she makes the evidence you have learned at every stage to feel so clearly important in the end. If you had paid more attention, you would have seen it clearly as a day.

Viewed through the same lens, the result of PGA Championship It is still a mystery, despite the number 1 player in the world leading three. Let’s pretend that Scottie Scheffler will not win. And, in fact, there has been evidence all the time.

Scheffler has been lucky. The best golf in the world is JUST who would think he would win this tournament. Vegas is telling you for weeks. And here he is, drowning life from it. But think again to… Saturday in the 8th hole. Scheffler struck one of the worst balls he has been hit throughout the season, trying to run the green, just to wipe the ball and send it away from the borders. Only a massive branch of white oak took the road, sending it back to the road. Scheffler made an easy principle from there; It may have been simply easily a pair.

If you saw enough enough through the Hercule Poirot magnifying glass, you will see that Scheffler’s driver has been a little unstable this week. And you will see a lot of large oak trees in Quail Hollow. He only hit six roads on Friday. He was low energy on Thursday, missing several times. I promise you won’t be shocked if you miss the left to start his last round, okay?

Alex Noran is running in happiness. Two months ago, Noran was at a break of damage and softball drill. Now he is in the last pairing! If he is a character in our mystery, he is unintentionally. Going for his business peacefully. Known for the noise of the cannons in the rank of running until he developed the bladder over his bladder, Nora had to leave the clubs for four months. Doctor’s orders.

Forget Golf – Noran was studying baseball He waves a few months ago, in support of his daughter’s team. When Noran tried that stick and the ball, he hated the feeling of connection everywhere, but the sweet place. Fortunately, in Golf, he does not have that problem. He is actually hitting his cuffs a little better than Scheffler this week. If the PGA falls into your lap, I think we’ll know why.

Jon Rahm remembers. It was not long ago that Rahm was the high dog. It wasn’t long ago he went to Scheffler toes at Scottsdale, and although he lost, we knew he was the best player in the world. Why? Because he won a week later, in Los Angeles, at the Invitational Generation. And then the masters two months after that.

But then Rahm left the scene. We felt we knew his motives, but he still felt confusing. At the time he returned – the diploma – he was different. But this? This week feels like old rahm. Birds in tufts as they were in front of Saturday AND Return nine. He will be in front of Scheffler, setting the rhythm through the 7th and 8th holes. When he connects the direction to 10, who first falls?

Davis Riley is Christie’s essence Toward zero. He was looking for Just a few months ago. Failure to break 80 twice in the first two events, and three cuts are missing shortly thereafter. You can spend a few chapters with him then, as he was obsessed with to be neutral. This means, with as much zero as possible on that release monitor possible. Zero closed degrees, zero-open rank, zero-zero degrees inside or out. Neutral is what robots do with a golf club, not with people.

At one point, this human withdrew and stopped following a version created by the “perfection” machinery. He has been up and down and down since then. Eight straight cuts, then a cut lost last week at Myrtle Beach. There is no way to explain it, but there he is, four shots back. And you know what? No single person expects him to be the party of the party. Is a shocking position.

Bryson dechambeau. If we are anticipating the last round as a given game, can it be … the scientist … on a long soft PGA Tour course … with the crowd behind it? This was happening on Saturday. Dechambeau recognizes Quail Hollow halls as well as anyone, and much better than Scheffler. He headed the 10th here before he followed the distance, in 2018. Then he returned in 2021 and 10’d Top it subsequently Bulking Up.

After hearing Scheffler explain his execution and concentration and the pride that led him to this great moment, I went looking for what I might miss while everything seems so clear. I got up to the direction range, where I found Dechambeau exactly as you expect, signing autographs and posing for the photo. The spectators who were not waiting for John Hancock shouted as they walked: “The People’s Champion!”

It is difficult to argue with that honor when you look at Dechambeau in these tours. He also feels that title. When he Zogu the 15th hole on Saturday, he was only in the lead and raised his hands repeatedly as he went to the 16th Tee. We know what happened next: Bogey-Double-final. But this is the blow that gives you a good mystery: disbelief. This guy cannot win.

As Dechambeau started climbing the stairs from the range to the parking lot, I told him he had entrusted me for a second here. He grabbed his head around everyone seriously and said, “Look – I will bring energy”, before returning to take some extra steps above the stairs. He stopped at the top before returning again with a smile.

“And, hey, I too can suck. Who knows?”

Exactly who knows…?