Gaze: Scottie Scheffler misses putt from 1ft 10in as fable-breaking straggle ends
Scottie Scheffler’s fable-breaking chase came to an ignominious dwell on Friday when he neglected a putt measuring correct 1ft 10in at the Houston Commence.
The field No 1 seemed obvious to lengthen his unprecedented straggle of 28 consecutive rounds below par on the PGA Tour as he sized up a six-footer for a four on the 18th that would dangle given him a 68.
No longer easiest did that effort lip out, but incredibly the tiddler for bogey took the the same cruel route of action and the following six noticed him card a level-par 70.
With weird and wonderful placidity, the peaceful Texan brushed off the error, claiming a spike mark veered his ball offline.
“No, I enact that the total time,” Scheffler quipped when requested if it used to be due to a psychological lapse. “You by no contrivance definitely know what’s going to be up there at some point soon of the cup on 18. I felt adore I hit a honest putt on the most important one, but the 2d one I enlighten correct hit quite rapid and didn’t glimpse a spike mark there.”
Scottie Scheffler 3-putt from 6 ft to operate double on 18 that ended his fable breaking consecutive rounds below par chase on the PGA Tour. After he jokingly said he misses putts adore that ‘the total time’.
He’s correct giving everyone else a possibility 😅
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Akshay Bhatia held the outdated below-par fable with 27, but Scheffler surpassed that with Thursday’s opening 65 at Memorial Park. Tiger Woods holds the fable of consecutive rounds at par or better (52), space at some point soon of the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Scheffler’s latest chase of 29 rounds of par or better remains intact.
And on five-below, Scheffler peaceful goes into the third spherical with live probabilities of profitable a third title on the bounce – a feat no longer completed on the US circuit since Dustin Johnson seven years ago. He’s four in the again of Ryder Cup group-mate Tony Finau, who fired a route-fable 62.
With the most important spherical of the Masters correct 12 days away, Scheffler’s rivals will with out doubt take coronary heart from the mistake. The 27-year-former is as low as 7-2 with the bookmakers to don his 2d green jacket in three years, with Rory McIlroy a some distance-off 2d current at 11-1.
Scheffler had persisted his torments on the greens earlier than prevailing at Bay Hill. His display in Orlando, and his victory the next week at The Gamers, featured great-improved performances with the putter and alongside with his peerless ball-striking Scheffler seemed your complete kit.
Nonetheless, as all the time with golf, gremlins lurk in the shadows.
