However, throughout a irritating opening spherical on Thursday on the 104th PGA Championship at Southern Hills Nation Membership, Scheffler’s feelings shone via because the spherical got here to an in depth.
On the ultimate gap, with two consecutive bogeys behind him, the 25-year-old sliced his drive what seemed to be dangerously near the water on the fitting of the green.
When he bought all the way down to this ball, he noticed it had in reality gone within the water and, consequently, Scheffler needed to take a penalty drop.
After seeing the place his ball had ended up, TV cameras caught Scheffler — normally so collected — repeatedly slamming his driver into his bag.
Remarkably, he was capable of hit his third shot to inside 15 ft of the pin and sink the ensuing putt to save lots of a par and present everybody why he is golf’s world No. 1.
He completed the times play with a one-over 71, six photographs behind chief Rory McIlroy.
Scheffler is seeking to grow to be simply the seventh man within the fashionable period to win the primary two majors of the season after Craig Wooden, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth.