After starting his Friday with issues off the course, Scottie Scheffler had a rough start to his Saturday on the course – after the world No. 1 scored poorly in the first four holes.
Scheffler was running on adrenaline on Friday morning after his shocking arrest, but was able to play well enough to finish the day at nine-under through two rounds.
However, his start to Saturday’s third round was nothing like the day before – with Scheffler going double bogey-bogey-bogey on holes 2-4 with some truly awful golf.
His tee shot on the second hole found a fairway bunker and his rescue shot out of the sand found very deep rough. Shot number three was caught up in that thick grass and forced him to take a fourth shot long before needing two putts to hole out for a double.
After carding that six on the par-four second, he hoped to recover on the third hole. Unfortunately, his six-foot putt for par just lipped out and he tapped in for a bogey.
Scottie Scheffler was forced to take a drop after a poor run of holes at the PGA Championship
On hole 2, Scheffler’s third shot from some deep rough was chunked and he double bogeyed
Hole 3 saw Scheffler’s putt for par lip out and he dropped yet another stroke dropped
That led to his tee shot on the fourth hole, which was sailing left and rolled through the gallery
It came to rest in a penalty area, forcing Scheffler to take a drop and a penalty stroke
His next shot was duffed as he took too much turf in his swing, holing out for yet another bogey
That led to his tee shot on hole no. 4 – which went very left, bounced short of the gallery and rolled through the legs of the fans, past the cart path and under a fence.
The ball came to rest in the penalty area and was too close to the fence in order to make a good shot. So, Scheffler took his drop just over 60 feet from the hole off the green.
All that was required was a simple chip on, but Scheffler duffed his shot and it came up short of the short grass. His fourth shot went past the hole and he finally rolled home a bogey putt from ten feet out.
It was a horrid start for Scheffler, but he almost immediately began his recovery efforts on the following hole with a birdie on the par-four 5th hole.
It’s been a wild 48 hours for the Masters champion after he was arrested and charged with felony second-degree assault of a police officer as well as three other non-felony charges.
Scheffler’s lawyer says that his client plans to plead not-guilty and said that his client ‘did nothing wrong’.
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