PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Scottie Scheffler’s bid at a Gamers Championship three-peat ended relatively quietly over the weekend.
Scheffler, the No. 1 ranked participant on the planet who final yr grew to become the primary participant to win back-to-back Gamers, completed 4-under par for the week, properly off the lead.
After what was a attempting week for Scheffler, who confirmed some uncharacteristic frustration within the windy circumstances on Saturday, he insisted he doesn’t really feel far off the highest of his sport.
“I feel very close,” Scheffler stated. “It was positively difficult with the winds and getting the ball near the opening. Undoubtedly began hitting some higher photographs. Beginning to really feel extra snug with my irons.
“The last two weeks I feel like I’ve definitely driven the ball better. Definitely some positives from this week. I’m looking forward to another prep week at home and then getting ready for Houston.”
Scheffler, in fact, is actually prepping for the Masters, which he’s received in two of the previous three years.
“I walk away from this week feeling close,” Scheffler stated. “I feel like there’s some stuff that I need to work on at home, but I feel very close. Overall, I felt like I did some good things this week, felt like I could have done some other things better. But I don’t feel far off by any means.”
Scheffler conceded to feeling himself “getting a bit frustrated” at occasions, including, “It’s simply a kind of issues. I’m a aggressive man, and I felt like I may have performed quite a bit higher this week. I completed the week 4-under par. I felt like I performed some higher golf than that.’’
So, Scheffler would fail to make historical past this week the best way he did final yr.
“Being able to repeat here was very special and I would have liked to have done it a third time,” he unhappy. “At the end of the day, I just didn’t have what it took this week.But it’s cool going into the locker room, turning left, going to the champions side, and I have a lot of great memories here from both my wins.”
Tom Hoge held the excellence of getting made the previous seven cuts on the Gamers Championship, the longest such streak among the many gamers within the discipline this week.
Then Hoge virtually received the match.
In the long run, he fell simply brief, after posting 10-under par because the chief within the clubhouse Sunday afternoon.
When play was suspended for harmful climate at 1:15 p.m., Hoge was looking at a 16-foot birdie putt on the 18th, his closing gap of the match, to publish 11-under. Hoge than had 4 hours of the delay to consider it.
When play resumed, his putt slid simply previous the opening.
“I just kind of checked out, just hung out upstairs in dining and I really didn’t think about it a whole lot, to be honest with you, just wanted to get away from it,” Hoge stated. “We’ve hit that putt a lot, so get out and get focused here in the warmup that we had as we got going. Felt like I hit a pretty good putt, just would have liked to have a little more pace to it.”
Hoge shot a 6-under-par 66 for the day, the bottom rating within the closing spherical.
“Everything felt pretty good today,” he stated. “I would say I felt really good about how I played the last two days.”
Keegan Bradley, the U.S. Ryder Cup captain, had a hole-in-one on the thirteenth gap Sunday.
