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After ‘Bittersweet' Run of Runner-Ups, Scottie Scheffler Hopes for One Better at PGA Championship
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After ‘Bittersweet' Run of Runner-Ups, Scottie Scheffler Hopes for One Better at PGA Championship

SI·Max Schreiber·20 days ago
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Even those trying to take Scottie Scheffler down can marvel at his greatness. “I think it is, it’s his relentlessness,” Rory McIlroy said Tuesday at the PGA Championship when asked what part of Scheffler’s game he admires the most. “The comfort in which he does the same things over and over. It’s the little—it’s not flashy, but he dots his ‘I’s and crosses his ‘T’s and does all the right things.” Recently, Scheffler has been doing the same thing over and over—but it’s not winning. It’s finishing second. For Scheffler’s standards, that’s a letdown. Even though, in a way, it’s historic. “I think it was last week my wife was like, ‘Hey, Scottie, you’re like the first guy in PGA Tour history to have three solo runner-ups in a row,’” Scheffler said Tuesday at Aronimink Golf Club. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, it’s probably because the guy that was playing that good figured out a way to win one of those, he didn’t come second in all three.’” The world No. 1 finished one back of Rory McIlroy at the Masters .…

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