Charlotte, NC – Scottie Scheffler opened eyes on Thursday when he got out of his usual online character flat and criticized the PGA of America for his decision not to play, clean, clean for the opening round of the PGA championship in Sangy Quail Hollow.
The PGA of America, which is the director of this major championship, published a statement on Wednesday evening that he plays the ball, as he is, despite the fact that the route had followed around five inches of rain in the head of the tournament.
This has made a number of players with mud balls, which changes the way the ball behaves when hit – even by the best players in the word.
For example, Scheffler, the classified player n ° 1 in the world, and the title champion of the PGA, Xander Schauffele, who played with Scheffler, both kicked in the middle of the fairway on the 16thth hole and had mud on their balls.
They both struck their approach hung on the left and in the water and took double bogeys.
Scheffler, one of the cheapest players of the game, then clearly indicated that he thought that the PGA of America should have used the uprising, cleaning and the place for the first round.
He said that the players who had met what he and Schauffele did on 16 were penalized after hitting perfect training in the fairway.
“It will be the last answer I give on the game or down,” said Scheffler, seeming more rubbed than you have never heard. “I mean, I don’t do the rules. I think that when you look at the purest golf forms, as if you are going to play golf links, there is absolutely no reason on a Links golf course, you should play the ball. It doesn’t matter what amount of rain they receive. The route could be flooded underwater and the ball will still bounce because of how the lawn is and the ground under the lawn.
“In American golf course, it is significantly different.
“On a golf course as well conditioned as it is, it is probably a situation in which it would be the least likely difference to play because most of the lies that you put here are really good.
“I understand how a golf purist would be:” Oh, play it like that. But I do not think they understand what it is to work all your life to learn to hit a golf ball and to control it and to strike shots and to control the distance, and suddenly due to a decision of rules which is completely removed by chance.
“In golf, there is enough luck through a 72 -hole tournament that I don’t think the story should be whether the ball is played or not.
“But as I said, I do not do the rules. I treat decisions of the rules. I could have let myself be disturbed today when you have a mud ball and it cost me a few strokes. It cost me two shots on a single hole, and if I let it disturb me, it could cost me five shots the rest of the round. ”
Scheffler rallied after the double Bogey on 16 (his seventh Trou de la Ronde, which started n ° 10) dropped it to 2 against the peer and played its last 11 holes in 4 sous to finish day 2-sous.
“I was proud of the way I stayed there, I did not let (double mud) reach me and I was able to play solid golf course one day when I was everywhere and always display a score,” he said.
