RBC Heritage: Hurricane Scottie Scheffler PPD with inclement climate

Scottie Scheffler started the day on the RBC Heritage clinging to a one-shot lead over Sepp Straka. However like a class 5 hurricane certain to destroy the whole lot in its path, Scheffler annihilated his competitors for the second consecutive Sunday.

He owns a five-shot lead at Harbour City, the place inclement climate suspended play for two-and-a-half hours on Sunday. Consequently, Scheffler and a handful of others will end their final couple holes very first thing Monday morning.

“Relaxed for some time this afternoon. We bought fairly soaked,” Scheffler stated afterward.

“However we stayed affected person, discovered a spot to calm down within the clubhouse, frolicked, and simply tried to remain able to play for many of at the moment.”

Earlier than any climate rolled in, Scheffler started his remaining spherical with two large momentum boosts on the primary and second holes.

On the par-4 1st, Scheffler drained a 6-footer for par, protecting his slim lead intact. Then, he elevated his result in three due to a chip-in eagle on the par-5 2nd.

“I hit a extremely good shot into the inexperienced on the 2nd gap, and I felt prefer it was unlucky to finish up in that spot again there over the inexperienced,” Scheffler stated.

“However I used to be in a position to hit a pleasant little bump-and-run in there. It was good, coming in on the proper pace, and I used to be pleased to get the ball up and down, however I used to be undoubtedly lucky to see it moving into. It was fairly near the place I needed to land it. I don’t actually take a look at a touchdown spot, however the way in which I imagined the chip, it got here out of the grass the way in which I believed it could, and it skipped into the hill like I hoped it could.”

One other birdie on the par-5 fifth gap adopted, and abruptly, not even a 3rd of the way in which into his remaining spherical, Scheffler sat at 19-under par.

Then, Wyndham Clark, who had climbed to 17-under due to a entrance 9 29, rocked a shot out-of-bounds off of a tree, which dropped him out of rivalry. Patrick Rodgers, one other participant who was 17-under on the time, made a multitude of issues on the seventh and eighth holes, as he dropped three pictures inside that span.

Consequently, Scheffler held a commanding four-shot lead when he arrived on the par-3 seventh.

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He then performed his subsequent few holes at even par, displaying no indicators of relinquishing his stranglehold on the event. Scheffler remained at 19-under by way of the delay.

When he returned to the course, the sphere confronted a a lot completely different golf course. The temperature had dropped severely, the wind picked up, and the greens had softened. That didn’t impression Scheffler, nonetheless, as he made one other birdie on the quick par-4 thirteenth.

However then, on the par-5 fifteenth, Scheffler made an uncharacteristic mistake. Making an attempt to put up, he duck-hooked his second shot into the pond—an entire shock to the system.

“I felt like I bought a nasty break there within the fairway,” Scheffler stated.

“I haven’t needed to hit a shot like that in a very long time, so I figured there should have been mud on the underside of the ball.”

He nonetheless managed to rise up and down to save lots of par in what turned out to be his remaining gap of the day.

“I felt just like the par was fairly vital tonight, simply having the ability to fall asleep and nonetheless protecting a clear card,” Scheffler stated.

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“I hit a very nice shot in there, so I felt like I had good momentum. I type of knew what the putt was doing. I felt like at the moment was a day the place I hit numerous actually good putts they usually weren’t actually dropping. I felt like I used to be due for one to drop. So I figured may as nicely hit it now.”

Remarkably, Scheffler has not dropped a shot because the third gap of the event on Thursday, when he doubled the par-4 third. He has gone 66 holes and not using a blemish on his card.

However now he has the chance to win for the fourth time in 5 begins, an unimaginable feat not completed since Tiger Woods did so in 2007. Like Scheffler’s run, that stretch included a significant championship, as Woods gained his thirteenth main on the PGA Championship at Southern Hills amid that span.

Alas, it seems to be all however certain that Scheffler will go from profitable a Inexperienced Jacket to a plaid one in back-to-back weeks, additional asserting himself as a strong pressure that may make a hurricane jealous.

Jack Milko is a golf employees author for SB Nation’s Taking part in Via. Remember to take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You may comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko as nicely.