{"id":2024,"date":"2026-05-25T00:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/2024\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:19:14","slug":"scottie-scheffler-jordan-spieth-leave-byron-nelson-with-mixed-feeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler, Jordan Spieth leave Byron Nelson with mixed feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scottie Scheffler walks off the 10th green during the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson golf tournament in McKinney, Texas, Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo\/Tony Gutierrez)<\/p>\n

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MCKINNEY \u2014\u00a0Jordan Spieth<\/a> is dialed in, throwing darts on the back nine as his sizable\u00a0gallery continues to grow. Tap-in birdie on the par-5 12th. Another birdie on the challenging, uphill par-4 13th. A short birdie after just missing the green on the drivable par-4\u00a014th.<\/p>\n

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In a more perfect world, his charge to 16 under par Sunday carries considerable weight.\u00a0At the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, it\u2019s just a morning warmup act for the main event. When he\u00a0goes in the water on No. 15 and makes double bogey to slide to 14 under, he drops out of the\u00a0top 10, although his presence there was never meaningful, anyway. It\u2019s only noon and the names gathered above and below him haven\u2019t even teed off at the birdie-fest known as\u00a0TPC Craig Ranch.<\/p>\n

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In fact, Scottie\u00a0Scheffler<\/a> is 40 minutes from his tee time when Spieth finds his watery\u00a0grave on the 15th. One day those two will duel in the sun on the back nine here, and it will\u00a0make Dallas golf history. As it stands, Scheffler and Si Woo Kim<\/a>, playing in the final pairing, each shot six-under-par 65 and weren\u2019t even in the running by the time they reached\u00a0the 17th hole. Wyndham Clark\u2019s 11-under 60, playing just in front of Kim and Scheffler, propelled him to 30 under par and his first victory in a season in which he hadn\u2019t found\u00a0a single top 10.<\/p>\n

This is the sixth Nelson held out here in what some of us consider the Far North, and it\u2019s\u00a0the second time the winner has reached 30 under par. Scheffler won a year ago at 31 under. The worst scores that found their way into a winner\u2019s circle here are Jason Day\u2019s and\u00a0Taylor Pendrith\u2019s 23-under par tallies.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to pretend\u00a0TPC Las Colinas was Pine Valley, but Keegan Bradley won at 3\u00a0under par one year. Adam Scott brought home a win at 7 under. They weren\u2019t that low\u00a0every year, but no one got to 20 under. Birdies down the stretch were, for the most part,\u00a0earned.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s nothing wrong with staging an event at a course that showcases the greatness of the modern golfer. But the unlikely rains along with the lack of wind and the light rough made this the most beatable of courses. Kim shot a 60 in the second round before Clark\u00a0did it Sunday. Kim finished 27 under par and\u00a0Scheffler snatched his sixth third-place-or-higher finish of the season at 25 under. But Clark ran off and hid with nine birdies and an eagle.<\/p>\n

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The fourth-place finisher was Jackson\u00a0Suber at 22 under. He had not finished higher than 19th (at Myrtle Beach) this season and had missed five of nine cuts. Suber tore up the course\u00a0with a 63 Sunday. Johnny Keefer, who tied for 9th with a 63, had one top 25 finish before Sunday and has missed six cuts.\u00a0Relative unknowns eating up your course is never a great look.<\/p>\n

Of course, not everything needs to play like the\u00a0PGA last Sunday, where pins were stuck on the side of hills and each birdie was a Herculean task. But there\u2019s something about\u00a0Scheffler leaving a golf course at 25 under par and feeling like he played \u201cOK.\u2019\u2019 He never\u00a0made a 5 until settling for par on No. 12 \u2014 his 66th hole \u2014 but said later, \u201cAround this\u00a0place, if you\u2019re gonna beat 30 under, you can\u2019t be making a bunch of fives.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Likewise for\u00a0Spieth, whose career has taken a decidedly different arc than Scheffler\u2019s since\u00a0reaching No. 1 in the world a decade ago, his 15 under par got him no better than a T-19\u00a0finish. Still, it feels like a win for the Nelson that fans basically could watch the two local\u00a0favorites play golf for nine hours a day.<\/p>\n

At next week\u2019s Colonial, a tournament that can rightly brag it has a better, deeper field\u2014 seven top-20 golfers in the official world rankings to the Nelson\u2019s one (Scottie) \u2014Spieth and Scheffler are taking the week off. It\u2019s nothing personal, mind you (Spieth won there\u00a0in 2016), but the current schedule of majors and elevated events makes it virtually\u00a0impossible for them to play the local tournaments on consecutive weekends.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s not a bad win for the Nelson to claim.\u00a0Spieth, who has gone nine years since\u00a0his last major win, had one bad round \u2014a two-over 73 on Saturday. He was 17 under the\u00a0other three days. Throw in another 65 and he\u2019s at least competing with the mysterious\u00a0Jackson Suber, if not his UT pal, Scheffler.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a couple of eagle putts that caught lips and really had a chance to be a special\u00a0day,\u2019\u2019 Spieth said. \u201cUltimately, I feel good about where my game\u2019s at. I just didn\u2019t get a lot\u00a0to show for it. I\u2019m going to stay patient and stay the course.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Kind of like the\u00a0CJ Cup Nelson. In another year, the new rough will have grown in. A late\u00a0April date might fit more schedules. With any luck, the pros will face something beyond a\u00a0soft, gettable layout.<\/p>\n

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Still, a great test of golf has to have something beyond bad weather\u00a0in its back pocket to call itself a challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler walks off the 10th green during the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2025,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1601,208,1600,1059],"class_list":["post-2024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-commentary","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-tp-jordan-spieth","tag-tp-scottie-scheffler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024","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=2024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}