![]() The green is wide, but not deep, and it has a lot of slope. An aggressive drive over the corner can make this hole reachable for longer hitters. And the few locals I spoke to were as kind as can be, which made for a nice experience. The pace of play was quick, despite the course getting busy as our round went on. This made for some long tee shots which had the already shorter course playing very short.Īt only $12 to walk 18 on weekdays, you won't find a better value. The fairways and tees were pretty firm due to the dry summer. ![]() The greens also have some serious slope, making for some very challenging putts, especially #1, #4 and #6. It appears the greens are the only areas of the course that are irrigated, and they are really well cared for and help make Meadowview a really fun course to play. While Meadowview won't wow you with its course conditions, it does boast some really nice bent grass greens that roll fast and true. Instead he heads home the recipient of the best ball striking performance of his young career - and one of the strangest PGA Tour weeks in recent memory.I've reviewed this course once before but wanted to add a new review based on finally getting to play Meadowview in summer conditions. “I mean, if I was putting the best this week, I would have won by a crazy amount of shots.” “I think maybe people are asking me about my putting so much more because I’m hitting it so good, but it’s not easy,” he said. It’s hard to argue that even a slightly below-average putting performance would have resulted in another Scheffler victory on Sunday at Jack’s place. I’m pretty frustrated with it right now.”įrustration is understandable. But we both were thinking the same thing, that some of those putts look like they’re going in and about 2 feet away you’re ready to go pick it up out of the hole and then it just doesn’t fall. Jon and I, we were kind of joking after the round on Friday how bad we were both putting. “Sometimes those putts go in and sometimes they don’t. “It’s just one of those deals,” Scheffler said. Surely, Scheffler will find himself sharing a similar sentiment - how did these not fall? - when he reviews the tape later this evening. Even today, I just go through my round and I’m like how did some of these putts not go in?” I felt like at the Masters and was it Hilton Head? It didn’t feel as good. “Like I said at the PGA, I can start feeling the ball coming off the blade again, which is good. “I feel like I’m making progress,” Scheffler told reporters after his round. He finished 1 stroke out of a playoff with Viktor Hovland and Denny McCarthy.- James Colgan June 4, 2023 Scottie Scheffler missed birdie putts from 3 feet, 5 inches 7 feet, 4 inches and 12 feet, 3 inches on the back nine today. He finished shy of a playoff with the tournament’s top two finishers, Hovland and Denny McCarthy, by just one stroke. The eye-test proved equally as damning on Sunday, with Scheffler missing birdie putts of 3 feet, 5 inches 7 feet, 4 inches and 12 feet, 3 inches on the back nine alone. Scheffler’s -8.58 strokes gained: putting ranked as dead-last in the field at Muirfield Village, nearly nine strokes off the tournament average performance. According to numbers guru Justin Ray, Scheffler’s 20.74 strokes gained: tee-to-green ranks as the second-best such performance in a week since the PGA Tour began tracking that data 20 years ago - just four-tenths of a stroke behind Vijay Singh’s 21.14 SG: T2G performance at the 2004 Deutsche Bank.Īnd indeed, the putter has been poor. Indeed, the ball-striking is doing alright. “I was talking yesterday with Teddy and I feel like I’ve had to elevate my ball striking because my putter has been poor.” “Ball striking is doing alright,” the typically understated Scheffler said in his post-round media availability with CBS. And that performance came on the heels of the worst putting performance of anyone in the field at Muirfield Village. ![]() This week at the Memorial, Scheffler had the second-best ball striking performance of anyone in the last 20 years on the PGA Tour. But perhaps not for the reasons he’d hoped. In fact, it was a week unlike any other in PGA Tour history. He ended the tournament some one stroke short of the eventual winner, Viktor Hovland.Īnd yet, as he charged up the 18th fairway at Muirfield Village, it was clear that Scheffler had just completed a week unlike any other in his career. He finished Sunday’s final round some two hours before the final groups followed suit. Nor did he spend most of the weekend particularly close to victory. Memories that will begin, in some way, with this week at the Memorial Tournament. Someday, when Scottie Scheffler’s name is but a twinkle in the eye of the most hardened golf fan, there will be only memories. Scottie Scheffler's Memorial Tournament will be remembered another lifetime over.
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