Scheffler's poor putting cost him the BMW Championship, giving Viktor Hovland the opening he needed.
But then a 20-yard bump-and-run into the par-5 15th green stopped 13 feet short, leaving a birdie putt Scheffler would miss on a hole he was supposed to birdie. The 27-year-old, who all at once can seem impossibly gifted and impossibly vulnerable, slowed his walk. He said later of that chip shot: “It landed maybe a foot short of where I wanted to, and then the second bounce was the one that really got me.
Seeing it drop 6 feet from the stick, Scheffler stomped down on his divot, showing the kind of Texas heat we rarely see from him. It was understandable. Scheffler is golf’s best ball-striker in the world. Is he the best player? That can be debated. But ball-striking? No one else exists in his orbit, which has probably made it all the more frustrating for him to go 12 tournaments, dating to The Players Championship in March, since winning.Then Scheffler missed a 6-foot birdie.
Part of this is simply the nature of the game. Great play often isn’t great enough in golf. A shot dropped here, a shot dropped there, an opponent putting together a historic round. It’s hard to win. Everyone’s favorite stat is Jack Nicklaus’ 19 runner-up finishes in majors. Rather, he has frustration and sounds like a man with more questions than answers. After the win, Hovland spoke of trusting his reads and feeling like his speed was dialed in. He said of his putting, “I guess I just didn’t try to fight it. I just relied on my instincts and my intuition and worked out this time.
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