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“It was intense out there,” Noren told me Sunday night. “Scottie was intense. I was intense. I was intense. The course is hard. It’s Sunday at a Major, in the last group. It’s very intense.” Noren was doing his own thing, as best he could, to the degree he could. He shot 76 and tied for 17th.
Scheffler was asked Sunday night to describe the intensity of tournament golf. “It’s really hard to describe,” he said. “I don’t think you can really understand what it’s like, in the arena, until you step in it, and it’s all on the line.”