{"id":1245364,"date":"2023-06-14T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/scottie-scheffler-considers-putter-change-to-solve-problems-ahead-of-us-open\/"},"modified":"2023-11-29T18:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:47:56","slug":"scottie-scheffler-considers-putter-change-to-solve-problems-ahead-of-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golftoday.co.uk\/scottie-scheffler-considers-putter-change-to-solve-problems-ahead-of-us-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler considers putter change to solve problems ahead of US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing a key piece of equipment at a major championship, when your worst result of the year is a tie for 12th, would usually seem like madness.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that is the situation in which world number one Scottie Scheffler finds himself at the US Open as he seeks a solution to the putting problems which have plagued his most recent performances.<\/p>\n<p>As well as winning the prestigious Players Championship and defending his title in the WM Phoenix Open in 2023, Scheffler has finished runner-up in the US PGA Championship and third in the Memorial Tournament, despite struggling badly on the greens.<\/p>\n<p><!-- EMBED START Twitter --><\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scottie Scheffler might win <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheMemorial?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheMemorial<\/a> with these strokes gained stats <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/esvpiwmaEA\">pic.twitter.com\/esvpiwmaEA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffEisenband\/status\/1665445551490383875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/figure>\n<p><!-- EMBED END Twitter --><\/p>\n<p>Third place at Muirfield Village was achieved on the back of gaining 20.74 strokes from tee to green, the second-best performance since the PGA Tour began tracking such data 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And it was just as well his ball striking was so outstanding as Scheffler lost a remarkable 8.58 strokes to the field on the greens, ranking him dead last of those to make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>It was therefore no surprise to see Scheffler testing a slightly different putter in practice rounds at Los Angeles Country Club ahead of the 123rd US Open, although he declined to commit to a switch.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You guys can find out Thursday,&rdquo; the former Masters champion said in his pre-tournament press conference.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t ever take decisions on switching equipment lightly. I think it&rsquo;s strange that I&rsquo;ve been struggling the past few weeks with my putter.<\/p>\n<p><!-- EMBED START Image --><\/p>\n<figure id=\"embedded96383f50fa034c23b512a74b21bc64e5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/content.assets.pressassociation.io\/AP\/2023\/06\/03\/96383f50fa034c23b512a74b21bc64e5.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"Scottie Scheffler\" data-title=\"Memorial Golf\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.\" data-credit=\"Darron Cummings\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/content.assets.pressassociation.io\/AP\/2023\/06\/03\/96383f50fa034c23b512a74b21bc64e5.jpg?w=320 320w, https:\/\/content.assets.pressassociation.io\/AP\/2023\/06\/03\/96383f50fa034c23b512a74b21bc64e5.jpg?w=640 640w, https:\/\/content.assets.pressassociation.io\/AP\/2023\/06\/03\/96383f50fa034c23b512a74b21bc64e5.jpg?w=1280 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\"><figcaption>Scottie Scheffler walks to the 14th green during the third round of the Memorial Tournament (Darron Cummings\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- EMBED END Image --><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The PGA I actually felt like I rolled it pretty good. Few putts here or there that lipped out that should have gone in. Memorial obviously had an off week on the greens or probably would&rsquo;ve won that one.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sometimes you&rsquo;ve just got to bring another putter around there to make the original one scared. I&rsquo;ve never really been one to try and overthink things, so I try and keep things as simple as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I looked at that one that&rsquo;s a little bit bigger, and I still am kind of undecided on what I think of it.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Putting is such a weird thing. Sometimes when you&rsquo;re on the green when you feel good you feel like you&rsquo;re never going to miss, and then sometimes when you feel terrible you feel like you&rsquo;re never going to make.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Putting is just so different than the rest of the game, so when it comes to putters, it&rsquo;s all personal.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><!-- EMBED START Twitter --><\/p>\n<figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The 2017 U.S. Walker Cup keeps getting more and more ridiculous:<\/p>\n<p>Collin MorikawaWill ZalatorisScottie SchefflerCameron ChampMaverick McNealyDoc RedmanDoug Ghim <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w9vlN586wZ\">pic.twitter.com\/w9vlN586wZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Rapaport (@Daniel_Rapaport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Daniel_Rapaport\/status\/1381398397303861248?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/figure>\n<p><!-- EMBED END Twitter --><\/p>\n<p>Despite Scheffler&rsquo;s struggles on the greens, his stellar long game means he has been installed as 7\/1 favourite for the US Open ahead of the man who succeeded him as Masters champion, Jon Rahm, and US PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old also has the advantage of being one of a handful of players to have competed on the North Course in tournament conditions, winning one point from two matches as the United States thrashed Great Britain and Ireland 19-7 in the 2017 Walker Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t recall playing my best here during the Walker Cup, but I remembered it being pretty difficult,&rdquo; Scheffler added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If my memory serves me well, it&rsquo;s a pretty hard course. It&rsquo;s got a good mix of holes where you have some of those holes that you really need to get after, and then you have other holes out here where you&rsquo;re kind of hanging on.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You&rsquo;re hitting a lot of different clubs into greens and it gives you a lot of options, and it&rsquo;s a really good test.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26-year-old lost a remarkable 8.58 strokes to the field on the greens at the Memorial Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1245365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9051],"class_list":["post-1245364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pa-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - 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