{"id":585807,"date":"2026-02-13T00:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/585807\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T00:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T00:13:12","slug":"watch-scottie-scheffler-hit-driver-on-pebble-beachs-167-yard-par-3-17th-due-to-high-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/585807\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Scottie Scheffler hit driver(!) on Pebble Beach\u2019s 167-yard par-3 17th due to high winds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main character so far this week at Pebble Beach has been the wind. The gusts roaring across the Monterey Peninsula have already produced some memorable highlights at the site of this week\u2019s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. We saw Emiliano Grillo use Mother Nature to his advantage with this ridiculous backwards flop shot<\/a> and Akshay Bhatia tee it up with mini-driver<\/a> on the iconic par-3 7th hole. The word on \u201cthe street\u201d on Tuesday was that even World No. 1 Scottie Scheller had been seen letting it rip on the 167-yard par 3 17th with the big stick.<\/p>\n

\n

RELATED: Alpha Tommy, quiet Rory, and the fall of the celebs: 10 things for Pebble Beach<\/a><\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

That footage finally surfaced on Thursday thanks to Scheffler\u2019s caddie, Ted Scott, who posted a video of Scheffler and Si Woo Kim teeing it high and letting it fly during a particularly blustery practice round earlier in the week. Batten down the hatches and check it out.<\/p>\n

\n

RELATED: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am picks 2026: The moment won’t be too big for Russell Henley<\/a><\/p>\n

Wild stuff. We don\u2019t get to see PGA Tour pros uncork driver on par-3s very often, if at all. Rarer still, both players can be seen aiming dead left off the tee, trying to hold their shots against the wind to control the distance and angle. And despite all the huffing and puffing, Scheffler still came up short.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s short!\u201d you can hear Scheffler shout over the wind.<\/p>\n

Advertisement<\/p>\n

\u201c160-yard driver!\u201d Scott replies.<\/p>\n

All of which cues up one of our favorite refrains in golf, especially when it pertains to the seemingly superhuman Texan.<\/p>\n

ONE OF US! ONE OF US! [Editor\u2019s note: He is not, in fact, one of us]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main character so far this week at Pebble Beach has been the wind. The gusts roaring across…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":585808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[47],"tags":[13058,30129,1430,253675,18932,82231,253744,62,86507,253745,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-585807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-akshay-bhatia","tag-emiliano-grillo","tag-golf","tag-monterey-peninsula","tag-pebble-beach","tag-scheffler","tag-scottie-scheller","tag-sports","tag-ted-scott","tag-the-main-character","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116060435547881411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=585807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/585807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/585808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=585807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=585807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=585807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}