Scottie Scheffler explains why he's playing at 3M Open
Scottie Scheffler talks to Golf Channel's Amy Rogers about why he's playing this week at TPC Twin Cities following a T-4 at The Open last weekend.
Video Transcript
So this was a tournament I heard a lot of good things about.
And three weeks off would be a pretty big stretch for me in the middle of the season as kind of getting ready for the playoffs.
So it made sense for me to come here and play another competitive week, just before we get the playoffs started.
You haven't played the week after the Open Championship since you joined the PGA Tour.
What's been the biggest challenge and adjustment to teeing it up here this week?
Yeah, I'd say getting rest and, trying to get some sleep.
The jet lag coming this way is a lot easier than going, going east.
So that part's been nice.
You know, I made it to, made it to my alarm this morning, which was helpful.
Granted it was quite early.
But yeah, I'd say mostly just getting rest.
Coming down from a major is always difficult, especially one in which I was in contention on Sunday.
So just getting rest and, getting used to a new golf course, but, that's pretty much it.
You mentioned being in contention last week at the Open Championship, where you said you felt like you played good golf, and you have all season.
But you said a moment ago that you don't feel like you've played great golf.
What would you have to do this week to feel like you played great?
I mean, last week is another week in which I felt really close.
I, I struck the ball really well.
I just wasn't able to hole enough putts the first couple days in or- in order to kind of move my way up the leaderboard.
You know, most of the guys you saw there late on Sundays had Each one of them had some pretty crazy rounds where they shot something really low, and I just wasn't able to do that, the first couple days with some really nice ball striking.
And so, this would be a week for great golf.
You know, sometimes that's just kind of putting everything together and hitting, hitting it nice and putting it nice and, you know, I just haven't been able to do that yet this year.
