Unlike during the final round, though, when he missed a 5-footer for the win in regulation, Scheffler did not miss this time, draining the 25-footer. He succeeded, reaching the green and leaving himself a 25-foot birdie putt. That was definitely a challenging shot even with the situation.” “You’ve got to catch the ball really clean, especially off an upslope like I was on in the playoff. “Any time I’m hitting a wedge out of a fairway bunker it’s very challenging,” he said. “Honestly in the playoff I would prefer a hole that would go left to right because Patrick likes to draw the ball off the tee and I like to fade it, so I would have liked for it to have been a different hole,” he said.Īnd then during that third attempt in the playoff, Scheffler’s drive ended up in a fairway bunker. One catch though – the final hole does not set up well for Scheffler’s ball flight. It was seeing who would take the first punch and fortunately I was able to do that.” I was doing everything I could to get in the fairway, but that’s a tough one for me because I like to fade it and it’s a draw shot. “So, anytime you get it in the fairway, you’re going to be at a real big advantage. “I think you have to be aggressive off the tee there because if you hit that fairway, you’re going to have a short wedge to a gettable pin,” he said. On Sunday last year, however, both the pesky 18th hole and the formidable Cantlay stood in the way of Scheffler’s effort to snag his first PGA TOUR title. ![]() team, and it was surely a matter of when he would get his first individual win, rather than if he could. Add in 18 Top-10 finishes by the time he reached TPC Scottsdale last year, plus a singles win over Scottsdale resident Jon Rahm as a member of the 2020 Ryder Cup-winning U.S. ![]() He bounced back nicely from a missed cut in his first WM Phoenix Open appearance in 2020 with a tie for seventh in 2021, three shots behind winner Brooks Koepka. In just his third season on the PGA TOUR, Scheffler had quickly established himself as a rising star. It’s hard for me to get it in play, so I knew if I had an opportunity, I really had to take advantage of it.” This is a really hard tee ball (on 18) for me. “Patrick is obviously a phenomenal player, and I knew one of us was going to have to make a birdie,” said Scheffler, a University of Texas graduate. But at that moment it was a birdie, not brisket, on his mind after matching consecutive pars with opponent Patrick Cantlay. By the time Scottie Scheffler came to TPC Scottsdale’s 18th green for the third time during last year’s playoff at the WM Phoenix Open, he knew the putting surface as well as he does the menu at Opie’s, his favorite Texas BBQ restaurant near Austin.
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