U.S. Open: Scottie Scheffler to re-consider 2025 plans after robust 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.” Certainly, Scheffler arrived at Pinehurst No. 2 recent off a victory at the Memorial, his fifth win of the 2024 season. However Jack Nicklaus’ course performed so robust, that many gamers in contrast it to a serious championship.

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

“I believe enjoying the week earlier than, numerous it is determined by the golf course, however I believe final week with the golf course the way in which it was, it in all probability was not one of the best prep work for me coming into one other difficult occasion,” Scheffler stated Sunday.

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“I shot 5-under throughout the first spherical on the Memorial, which might have been the best 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 enjoying numerous good golf and being in rivalry, I believe possibly my prep would have been slightly bit higher for this week if I used to be at residence.”

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

After that, he performed within the Charles Schwab Problem, 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 enjoying. It’s a event that I’m humbled to be the champion at.”

Earlier than this season, Nicklaus staged the Memorial Event throughout the first weekend of June, with the primary observe spherical coinciding with Memorial Day.

The PGA Tour pushed it again one week this 12 months, hoping to offer golf followers three straight weeks of top-level golf. After the Memorial, the world’s greatest went straight to Pinehurst No. 2, after which, subsequent week, the highest gamers on the PGA Tour will head to the Vacationers Championship, the ultimate Signature Occasion of the season. Nicklaus hopes that his event will revert to its prior schedule, and absolutely, Scheffler feels the identical.

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

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

Scheffler echoed this sentiment after his Sunday spherical, too.

“So far as prep for this week, it could not have been one of the best, however I knew what my schedule was at first of the 12 months. I had it set,” Scheffler stated.

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

Maybe the PGA Tour will change the date of the Memorial again to its conventional date on the heels of Memorial Day subsequent season. However possibly it doesn’t. Both approach, 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 Enjoying By way of. Make sure to try @_PlayingThrough for extra golf protection. You possibly can observe him on Twitter @jack_milko as nicely.