OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) - Scottie Scheffler kept coming back to the same answer when asked in different ways how a day that began with optimism at the U.S. Open turned into a 5 1/2-hour slog that left him well off the front page of the leaderboard.
Scottie Scheffler has frustrating day at the US Open to fall 7 shots off the pace
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) - Scottie Scheffler kept coming back to the same answer when asked in different ways how a day that began with optimism at the U.S. Open turned into a 5 1/2-hour slog that left him well off the front page of the leaderboard.
"I’ve probably got to give myself a few more looks," the world’s top-ranked player said Thursday after a 3-over 73 left him seven shots behind front-runner J.J. Spaun.
Scheffler was talking about looks for reasonable birdie putts. Those didn’t happen nearly enough during 5 1/2 often arduous hours at Oakmont. As for plain old "looks," however, well the three-time major winner had those in abundance.
Looks of frustration, like when his drive on the par-5 12th landed in the middle of a fairway that slopes massively from left to right and kept rolling, and rolling, and rolling until it was in the first cut of the course’s signature ankle-deep rough.