Augusta – Scottie Scheffler seems to find her game at the right time.
It was just a round, but it was a very good to open his defense of the masters on Thursday in Augusta National, a 68 under normal who saw Scheffler doing four birdies and no Bogeys.
“I felt pretty good. Whenever you can keep a clean card here, it’s a very good thing,” said Scheffler. “I fought for what looked like two pars today. I had to make two very good and descending. But other than that, the golf course was in front of me most of the day, kept the ball in play, did a lot of very good things. ”
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Scheffler worked to return to the form he had in 2024 when he won seven times on the PGA Tour, notably the Masters, the players’ championship and the Tour championship as well as the Olympic gold medal.
A Christmas accident that cut off his right hand meant surgery and a missing month of action, with Scheffler to be ready for the first major of the year.
He equaled equally two weeks ago in Texas Children’s Houston Open.
“I think it was more the nature of the time when I had to prepare for the tournament after the injury, I would say,” he said. “Regarding my preparation, I was not doing anything different, I could just make more and more representatives. Just over time, I felt more prepared than for any other tournament.”
Scheffler has stewed in the 2nd, 4th, 8th and 16th holes, having not sorted the 13th and 15th, the two by 5 on the last nine.
He struck 10 of the 14 fairways and 11 of the 18 green and needed only 26 putts, rising twice from the bunkers.
When he finished, Scheffler was in second equality with Corey Conners, three shots behind Justin Rose, who was still on the course.
