You know how Scottie Scheffler plays. Here’s how he practices

Oakmont, Pa.-Tiger-by-the-Moment, Mr. Scotie Scheffler from Dallas, is nothing like Tiger, except the rhythm at which he is winning golf tournaments in the last two years. When Woods played his nine-hole practice rounds, on the eve of a major, he came out half an hour after sunrise and the whole session was a study in Grind-Out intensity. Scheffler played with Sam Burns On Wednesday, starting from 10 and just before noon, ending about three hours later, a full practice of stories, fragments and many, LOT strike shots at pitch. They are both 28, strong like bulls, and southern, even if Scheffler arrived in Texas by New Jersey. Scottie made the conversation. Sam made the hearing.

So we are in this place of pizza. Sally’s. Everyone is getting their pies. And we’re getting. . . Nothing. And finally this guy comes on our way and he has the pie. And I’m like, ‘that should be ours’. And goes to the table behind us. And that table was clearly lowered at least 20 minutes after us. And the boy says, “Not for you!”

A little burst of laughter throughout tee. Players, caddies, volunteers and marshals. The destroyed toe struck the intention of tee.

When the nine holes were made, Sam Burns went in a way and Scottie Scheffler Another, but not before the signing of tens and dozens of autographs. Someone told Burns, “Can you imagine a guy who plays a quieter practice with the year he has?”

“That’s how it is,” Burns said. That is, this is how he is in a round of practice on Wednesday-afternoon. Saturday evening at The empty quilLooking for a blow to 18 to expand his lead in the PGA championship, Scheffler was the intensity photography, with this title: “F – yes, children”.

Scheffler was in the range at 11am, along with his cadet, Ted scottAnd his teacher, Randy Smith of River Oaks Country Club in Dallas. Smith is as old school as Sean Foley is at a young age. When it became a perfect interval session, Smith sent Scheffler to the range with a Swat at the end as an old -time manager looking for a final from his nearest place.

Gary Williams, from Golf Channel, had a guest recently and the conversation addressed Scottie Scheffler.

“Who reminds you of this guy?” Asked Williams.

A pause.

“Mike Souchak”.

Williams was like, Mike Souch – interesting

Mike Souchak was the 54-year leader of US Open 1960 at Cherry Hills in Denver, Vit Arnold Palmer won. Souchak was strong in the country. (He was an end and a placekicker on the football team in the 1950s.) He was tall at a pace that worked for him. He was a family boy. He didn’t need to tell anyone how smart he was. Scheffler, Scheffler, Scheffler, Scheffler, Scheffler.

None of this is to suggest that this was a practical entertainment round and games. Among them, Burns and Scheffler may have played 200 greenhouse chips, pits and bunker shots. Scheffler entered a five -ball bunker, something you almost never see. When his second shot at 12 landed at the front of the green and finished over it, he played eight other shots in the pitch of five inch long that were only two yards above the green. He played access to Wednesday’s pins, then played a series of shooting at possible places on Thursday and Friday, shown with flat tire stops. At least, they could be.

Scheffler had four clubs with a hat: driver, 3-dru, 5-dru, putter. He had an umbrella. (Sam Burns did not.) He had one of those stretch equipment. He had blade cuffs and one of them had a lead ribbon all over his back. He has a rangefinder in a national case Augusta, or it would probably be more accurate to say that Ted Scott did. He didn’t have much questions for Scott. They were giving each other the needle, now and again. More scheffler for scott than vice versa.

At that time at the President’s Cup, when you said the wind was coming out of three o’clock. And that was extremely incorrect. And I’m like, “Do you even know where the three hours is in calling the clock?”

And everyone laughs because life is good. The course, this Country Club Course Oakmont, waiting for its 10th open, is impossible. But it is less impossible for Scottie Scheffler than for some others.

The PGA reign champion has a deliberate way, but also a casual. He placed a ball down a straight street with an iron, just to see how far he would run. When a spraying head was interfering in a blow. He simply gently hit the ball in a new place with a finger kick. One father showed his new son – three, at the top – in the direction of Scottie Scheffler. Dad forced the child to shake, two hands for the price of one.

Scottie Scheffler waved again.

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