Smith breaks ranks in big LIV admission over $42m elephant in room<\/a><\/p>\nScottie Scheffler lost his cool with caddie Ted Scott.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
A par at the last then ensured Scheffler finished one-over par for the opening round with a 73.<\/p>\n
Post-round, the American opened up to the media about the incident on the 16th hole.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s just another really good iron shot, and the wind switched from down off the right to pretty significantly in off the right,\u201d he recalled. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf it\u2019s down off the right, that ball\u2019s probably where I hit my wedge shot to. So just don\u2019t really know what I\u2019m supposed to do there outside of trying to hit a good shot, and then it\u2019s frustrating when it doesn\u2019t work out, especially when it doesn\u2019t work out in that direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would rather get gusted in off the left, not in off the right there. All you can do is just try to hit good shots. It can be very frustrating sometimes when you feel like you\u2019re hitting good shots and then you\u2019re going to the drop zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once in the clubhouse, Scheffler was still left scratching his head after going from the low of the double bogey on 16 to the high of the chip-in birdie on 17.<\/p>\n
\u201cGot a good break there. That was fun. That was good,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cGood breaks are more fun than –that one — see, that\u2019s the thing that can be so frustrating about golf is I striped one on the hole before that and I end up in the water. That one I kind of hit thin, and you get a good bounce and I end up on the fringe and I chip in. <\/p>\n
\u201cLook, it\u2019s always a touch thin out of the bunker, but I was trying to hit it a little higher so I could hold the green. And then that one lands in the rough just over the bunker,<\/p>\n
which is also dead, that bunker, and ended up chipping one in. So you\u2019re just like, all right. <\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, what a game. I felt like I didn\u2019t get anything out of the round, all of a sudden you just get a lucky bounce and you\u2019re like, okay, well, I\u2019m going to try to smile, it\u2019s still hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wyndham Clark, J.J. Spaun, Tommy Fleetwood and Ryan Gerard lead the way at five-under par in the US$20 million signature event hosted by Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n
Adam Scott is the best of the Australians after an even par 72.<\/p>\n
Jason Day shot 74, while Min Woo Lee struggled with a 75.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt pretty decent out there. I\u2019m just not quite happy with the swing right now,\u201d Day said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think I did a good job of hanging in there. Made an awful error on 6. I got a little bit of a bad break with the tee ball, even though I shouldn\u2019t have been over there. <\/p>\n
\u201cThen I did the smart thing, chip out into a sand divot and then kind of hit it fat into the water. So it\u2019s just hard because you\u2019re standing there in the sand divot and you\u2019re like, okay, if I just catch this clean and it goes too far, you might chip is back into the water coming back down in that rough. <\/p>\n
\u201cSo you\u2019re trying to do the best job of catching it clean and I just caught it heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World No.1 Scottie Scheffler unleashed a stunning rant directed at his caddie in all-time blow up at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[495,6590,6592,405,2602,6589,5108,44,1561,1484,497,400,421,3261,6588,2133,6593,1814,6594,6591,3749,418,6256,714,398,424],"class_list":["post-15572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-adam-scott","tag-all-time-blow","tag-all-time-caddie","tag-america","tag-bubba-watson","tag-chip-in-birdie","tag-fort-worth","tag-golf","tag-j-j-spaun","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-jason-day","tag-north-america","tag-northern-america","tag-ohio","tag-round-leaderboard","tag-ryan-gerard","tag-sand-divot","tag-signature-event","tag-stunning-rant","tag-tee-ball","tag-tee-box","tag-texas","tag-the-charles-schwab-corporation","tag-tommy-fleetwood","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-wyndham-clark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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