Amanda Balionis forced to offer Scottie Scheffler | Golf News

Scottie Scheffler’s eventful PGA Championship journey took one other twist when the 28-year-old was hit by a coughing match during a reside interview with CBS Sports’ Amanda Balionis.

The golf star had earlier grappled with mud balls in the event’s opening spherical after a controversial call made by championship officers. Despite lambasting the choice in an impassioned press convention, Scheffler bounced back impressively on Friday.

It wasn’t until Saturday’s play that Scheffler clinched the reins of the PGA Championship, forging forward to a three-stroke lead buttressed by a stellar 6-under 65 – the best efficiency Quail Hollow had seen.

Fresh from a commanding run, Scheffler geared up to chat with Balionis—an keen spectator herself of the championship—about the key sauce to his success. But issues rapidly took a comical nosedive during their discuss.

No sooner had Balionis embarked on her opening query than Scheffler interrupted the airwaves with a potent combo of a sneeze-cough. “Bless you, and cough,” Balionis jested. “The allergies are really bad here in Charlotte. That’s our first breaking news of this evening.”

Regrouping momentarily, Scheffler cracked a joke: “Sorry, I’m just nervous” — to which Balionis responded with laughter. “You haven’t done one of these before,” she retorted, smile beaming.

Scheffler tried to reply Balionis’ question but had to momentarily halt and clear his throat. “Yeah, I hung in there really well today. I got off to a…,” he managed before his phrases trailed off.

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Seeing her interview subject struggling, Balionis rapidly stepped in with a useful gesture, offering water. “We can get you a water. Come on, yeah. We might as well do this,” she proposed.

With a hearty gulp of water, Scheffler was back on monitor, persevering with his ideas without interruption. “I bogeyed the first,” he defined.

“I actually felt like I had two pretty good shots in there. I just battled really hard today.

“The circumstances have been brutal,” Scheffler added. “The wind was actually gusty in the present day. I believe that was in all probability essentially the most difficult half, and the greens have been firming up as effectively, but general did a good job of staying affected person and hitting some good photographs.”

Balionis then drew attention to how Scheffler wrapped up his third round, spotlighting his consecutive birdies on Nos. 17 and 18, accompanied by his emphatic cheer after sinking his last putt.

Speaking on the pivotal moment, Scheffler remarked, “I believe it was an important time in the spherical. You know, I needed to end off the spherical the best means, and I used to be in a position to gain some momentum there with the Eagle on 14 and 15.

“I hit some good shots down the stretch, and it was nice to be able to take advantage of some good shots.”

Discussing his strategy to clinch a third main championship, Scottie Scheffler remarked: “Just more good golf. You know, continue to do what I’m doing, stay in the present, do the best that I can do. I have some great players chasing me on the leaderboard, and it’s gonna take another really good round.”