Scottie Scheffler will likely be trying so as to add to his main tally on the US Open this week, however what can problem his bid for a sixth win in 9 begins on the PGA Tour?
Scheffler held on to say a one-shot victory on the Memorial Event on Sunday, a fifth win in a outstanding begin to the season that has additionally seen him turn into a back-to-back winner of The Gamers and declare a second Masters title in three years.
The world No 1 wasn’t fairly at his sensible tee-to-green finest in the course of the ultimate spherical at Muirfield Village on Sunday however was nonetheless in a position to attain the winner’s circle, his first victory since turning into a father, with Scheffler the overwhelming favorite for US Open victory this week.
This week’s Sky Sports activities Golf podcast regarded forward to the US Open and the robust take a look at that Pinehurst Resort & Nation Membership’s Course No 2 will supply the gamers, with Sky Sports activities’ Robert Lee anticipating Scheffler’s recreation to be suited to the historic main format.
“You’re not going to win it around here by spraying it all over the place, because of the green designs and how penal they are if you start running off with any speed,” Lee stated. “You possibly can say each week about eager to be enjoying from the fairways, however you actually do that week!
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“5 yards with an iron goes to make an enormous, massive distinction. You are 5 yards from the highest of the ridge the place the pin is and it begins rolling backwards, or should you pitch it 5 yards too far then you are going to be bouncing into some terrible place.
“It must be any individual who has a whole lot of management of their recreation and guess who has probably the most management of his recreation out of anybody?! He is an excellent, underrated chipper and wedge participant. There’s barely a participant higher from inside 150 yards than Scottie Scheffler and from across the greens he is improbable.
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Talking on the Sky Sports activities Golf Podcast, Rob Lee and Jamie Spence clarify the troublesome take a look at that faces the gamers across the greens on the US Open
“Scheffler’s getting to the point where, if we were going to have some fun and have a bet, where you could have him or the rest or the field!”
Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau are among the many others anticipated to impress on the US Open, the place Wyndham Clark is defending champion, Xander Schauffele chases back-to-back main titles, though Sky Sports activities’ Jamie Spence believes it’ll take an correct participant to prevail this week at Pinehurst.
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The boys’s main season continues this month on the US Open, reside on Sky Sports activities. Can anybody cease Scheffler at Pinehurst?
“You need a lot of patience around here,” Spence stated. “When you look at the last three winners around here, Payne Stewart, Michael Campbell and Martin Kaymer, they’re all not the longest but all very controlled players.
“We’re in search of a participant who retains the ball in play and never essentially somebody who assaults golf programs. I simply do not assume among the longer gamers are going to irons off the tee and the likes of Rory McIlroy and Bryson DeChambeau are going to have the persistence for it.”
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What else in on the podcast?
Common host Josh Antmann and his two friends look again at a dramatic end to the Volvo Automotive Scandinavian Combined, the place Sebastian Soderberg blew an eight-shot lead on the ultimate day as Linn Grant got here from 11 behind to grab an unlikely end.
The panel replicate on Soderberg’s nightmare end and whether or not he ‘choked’ on his alternative to finish a second DP World Tour victory, plus replicate on the opposite speaking factors from the ultimate day of Scheffler’s hard-fought Memorial win.
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Sebastian Soderberg squandered an eight-shot result in hand fellow Swede Linn Grant victory on the Volvo Automotive Scandinavian Combined in Helsingborg
They have a look at the challenges dealing with the gamers this week on the US Open and among the gamers who may impress in North Carolina, with all three providing their predictions on who could be the participant who completes main victory.
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