U.S. Open: Scottie Scheffler to re-consider 2025 plans after powerful week

Scottie Scheffler couldn’t make a putt on the 124th U.S. Open, which helps clarify why he made solely 4 birdies over his 4 rounds.

He referred to as it a “irritating” week after he completed up on Sunday, including that it was “lengthy.” Indeed, Scheffler arrived at Pinehurst No. 2 contemporary off a victory on the Memorial, his fifth win of the 2024 season. But Jack Nicklaus’ course performed so powerful, that many gamers in contrast it to a serious championship.

That stage of issue takes loads out of a participant, not to mention the most effective golfer on the planet, particularly going right into a U.S. Open. Hence, Scheffler will re-evaluate whether or not or not he’ll play within the weeks earlier than majors going ahead.

“I feel taking part in the week earlier than, lots of it is determined by the golf course, however I feel final week with the golf course the best way it was, it most likely was not the most effective prep work for me coming into one other difficult occasion,” Scheffler stated Sunday.

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“I shot 5-under in the course of the first spherical on the Memorial, which might have been the simplest day, and after that, I used to be 3-under from there on out. I imply, that’s fairly U.S. Open-like, and to play that many rounds, particularly with what I’ve been coping with the weeks main up or the entire season, been taking part in lots of good golf and being in competition, I feel possibly my prep would have been a bit of bit higher for this week if I used to be at dwelling.”

Of course, Scheffler has had loads occur in his life off the golf course in latest months. His arrest on the PGA Championship rapidly turned nationwide information and an web sensation. He and his spouse, Meredith, additionally welcomed a child boy on May 8, solely 9 days earlier than he discovered himself in a jail cell in Louisville, Kentucky.

After that, he performed within the Charles Schwab Challenge, the place a exceptional tragedy occurred in the course of the event. Then, Scheffler skipped the RBC Canadian Open and made his subsequent begin on the Memorial.

“I’m clearly not going to skip Jack’s event,” Scheffler added.

“It’s a event I like taking part in. It’s a event that I’m humbled to be the champion at.”

Before this season, Nicklaus staged the Memorial Tournament in the course of the first weekend of June, with the primary apply spherical coinciding with Memorial Day.

The PGA Tour pushed it again one week this yr, hoping to provide golf followers three straight weeks of top-level golf. After the Memorial, the world’s finest went straight to Pinehurst No. 2, after which, subsequent week, the highest gamers on the PGA Tour will head to the Travelers Championship, the ultimate Signature Event of the season. Nicklaus hopes that his event will revert to its prior schedule, and absolutely, Scheffler feels the identical.

“I feel by way of prep work for every week that I do know goes to be as powerful as this, I’m leaning in the direction of possibly not taking part in the week earlier than,” Scheffler added after Saturday’s spherical.

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“Going into the key championships, particularly those we all know are going to be actually difficult, it could be in my finest curiosity to not play the week earlier than.”

Scheffler echoed this sentiment after his Sunday spherical, too.

“As far as prep for this week, it could not have been the most effective, however I knew what my schedule was firstly of the yr. I had it set,” Scheffler stated.

“That was all the time the best way it was going to be. I really feel like going ahead, I’ll possibly do issues a bit of bit in a different way within the weeks main as much as majors, particularly when you recognize it’s going to be a difficult setup at a U.S. Open.”

Perhaps the PGA Tour will change the date of the Memorial again to its conventional date on the heels of Memorial Day subsequent season. But possibly it doesn’t. Either means, Scheffler seems like he’ll take the week off earlier than main championships, particularly earlier than U.S. Opens, in 2025 and past.

Jack Milko is a golf workers author for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Be certain to take a look at @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You can comply with him on Twitter @jack_milko as effectively.