{"id":98233,"date":"2025-05-13T14:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98233\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T14:16:10","slug":"scottie-scheffler-will-break-rory-mcilroy-as-pundit-claims-only-another-freak-incident-can-halt-pga-championship-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/98233\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler will break Rory McIlroy as pundit claims only another freak incident can halt PGA Championship bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scheffler was arrested by Louisville Metro Police 12 months ago before the PGA Championship in a bizarre incidentScottie Scheffler’s mugshot<\/p>\n

Bullish Brandel Chamblee says only a freak accident and not Rory McIlroy <\/a>will stop Scottie Scheffler winning the PGA Championship.<\/p>\n

The world No.1 had his hopes at this major handcuffed 12 months ago when he was arrested and stuck in the cell bang in the middle of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Scheffler then lost some edge at the turn of the year when he cut his hand with a wine glass trying to make ravioli.<\/p>\n

But Chamblee, a former Tour pro, says it\u2019ll need something as ridiculous as an accident with a giant animal to halt his victory lap at Quail Hollow.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt took one of the most bizarre incidents I\u2019ve ever heard of, any of us have ever heard of [arrest] to topple him off of that momentum that he had going into the PGA<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n

“It took an equally bizarre incident cutting the ravioli. If he didn\u2019t get run over by a water buffalo this week from his car to the golf shop, I don\u2019t know how they\u2019re going to stop him.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust looking at the numbers, looking at the state of his game, you just look at the run he\u2019s on right now. There\u2019s a sense is it the beginning of an era.<\/p>\n

“Is he on a two, three-year run or could this be a 10, 15-year run? In so many ways, he reminds me of Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n

“The tempo of his golf swing, the high hands, the way he releases the club and his consistency. The world rankings have been around for 40 years and you think about all the phenomenal players that have come through.<\/p>\n

\"ScottieScottie Scheffler<\/p>\n

\u201cSeve, Bernhard Langer, Greg Norman, Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els, Vijay Singh. Only two players have managed to have consecutive 100 weeks in a row or more.<\/p>\n

“Of course, that\u2019s Tiger Woods<\/a>, who did it twice and now Scottie Scheffler, 104 weeks. So dead-on two years. Rory didn\u2019t do this, Norman didn\u2019t do this, Brooks Koepka didn\u2019t do this, Dustin Johnson didn\u2019t do this, none of them did this. That\u2019s how consistent he\u2019s been. The devil\u2019s in the details, but you have got give the angel his wings and these are the wings right here.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got two years of example. Scottie is the best iron player, he\u2019s the best driver in the game, he\u2019s inside the top 20 in putting. I mean, how are they going to beat him this week? He was a little bit off of his game at Augusta National, but I just don\u2019t see how they\u2019re going to beat him this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Torrential rain has softened up the course in North Carolina and Chambeee says that will also help Scheffler as he added: \u201cI\u2019m not sure there\u2019s much that can slow Scottie Scheffler down when you hit it as straight as he does and given the fact that the rough is going to be more punishing this week than it typically is, Rory said it in an interview, he needs to drive it better.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe hit four fairways Saturday, five fairways Sunday. Rory has actually won here hitting 19 fairways on the week. I don\u2019t think the winner\u2019s going to hit 19 fairways here this week. He\u2019s going to [have to] hit more than that.<\/p>\n

“Justin Thomas <\/a>definitely scrambled beautifully around here when he won, but I think there\u2019s a little bit more bite to this rough than there was in there. So there\u2019s a bigger premium on finding fairways and that\u2019s where Scottie\u2019s just better than Rory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scheffler was arrested by Louisville Metro Police 12 months ago before the PGA Championship in a bizarre incidentScottie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,28243,4299,4287,4288,79,4320,16,15,45668],"class_list":{"0":"post-98233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-justin-thomas","10":"tag-liv-golf","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-scottie-scheffler","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tiger-woods","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-uspga"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114500952636324163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}