Pebble Beach, California (AP) – The temperatures were plunged and the wind was fucking – not an ideal day for a walk on the beach. Friday, he turned out to be a moment in economics of economics for Scottie Scheffler in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
Scheffler pulled his starting blow on the 18th hole by 5 in Pebble Beach to the Pacific Ocean. He has never seen it Carom on the rocks or splashing in the greatest risk of golf water.
His only other option was to take a penalty fall at about 40 meters forward at the end of the Tee box. So he thought he could also walk 300 meters and take a look. Fortunately he did.
“I saw a ball on the beach, I fell there, I found my ball, moved rocks, struck it, hit it on the green, two shots,” said Scheffler, which made him so routine.
It took a good fortune, starting by finding your golf ball. He had to take a long road to the beach, at the bottom of a 5 -foot rock shelf, backing up some 40 meters to find a smaller rim to sea level, being careful not to slip along the way. He was also able to move small rocks and algae around his ball.
Then it was a question of hitting it quite cleanly with a corner to pass it on the cliff and back to the fairway. Once he succeeded, it was an iron at 6 yards of 179 yards that he arrived at the back to the right of the green, leaving him two putts of 40 feet for a peer and a 2-me of 70.
Scheffler had seven shots behind the weekend, still in the mixture, and a little lucky not to be more back.
“I made good pars,” he said. “This one was luckier than anything.”
Scheffler is not the only player to live where Pebble Beach takes his name. Brandt Snedeker sorted out of the beach in 2019.
Scheffler would have certainly taken a 5 of the place where he struck his TEE shot, and he had few complaints concerning his game since it was his first real competition in almost two months.
He underwent a minor surgical intervention on his right hand when the glass perforated the upper palm while used a wine glass to cut homemade ravioli at Christmas. The swing looks good. He said his hand feels good. But there is a little rust question that he can detect.
One was obvious – a semi -chanque on the 11th hole with a corner of lob at 82 meters which led to its only Bogey on Friday.
There was also a shine, like iron 6 which he struck through the ocean which settled about 2 feet distance for Birdie on n ° 8, one of the most difficult holes of the route golf.
“I think the last two days here, I haven’t felt at all maximum performance,” he said. “I think that if you look at my strokes of my blows, they are probably not close to what they are normally. And I think it’s just a little competitive rust, in a way to recover My feet under me and play the golf tournament.
“To have only two Bogeys, one of them being with a semi-chanque, it’s pretty good.”
