BY GEORGE DICKIE
Beware PGA Tour, Scottie Scheffler is on a roll.
Indeed, as of mid-April the 25-year-old Dallas resident
and top-ranked golfer on Tour had won four of the last six
tournaments he'd entered in 2022, topped by his first career
victory in the Masters.
In that April 7-10 major at Georgia's Augusta National,
he put in a commanding performance, taking the lead in the
second round and building it to six strokes on Sunday. So
dominant was he that he was able to shoot a double bogey on
the 72nd hole – in the process missing two four-foot putts –
and still managed to come in three shots ahead of his closest
pursuer, Rory McIlroy. Not bad for a guy whose nerves were
so on edge that morning that he needed to be talked down by
his wife.
He's clearly got the hot hand and seems to have all his
weapons working – he's long, he's accurate and he can putt,
that double bogey notwithstanding. Furthermore, no one on a
golf course is more unflappable than Scottie Scheffler.
But hot streaks can easily turn cold and sustained runs are
rare. So don't expect the
stellar field to automatically
lie down when Scheffler
steps to the first tee in the
year's second major, the
PGA Championship, which
airs Thursday through
Sunday, May 19-22, on
ESPN and CBS, from the
Championship Course at
Southern Hills in Tulsa,
Okla.
Red hot Scheffl er sets sights
on PGA Championship
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