Schefflers rare outburst at caddie caught on hot | Golf News

The first spherical of the Memorial Tournament witnessed world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler departing from his usually composed on-course demeanor in a rare outburst directed at his longtime caddie of practically 5 years.

Renowned for his unflappable temperament — a high quality famous by Ryder Cup teammates, including Xander Schauffele — Scheffler overtly challenged his caddie after a miscalculation despatched his ball into the water at Muirfield Village.

Scheffler, who claimed victory at last 12 months’s event, entered this 12 months’s version as an odd favourite prior to the incident.

The errant shot fell short, hovering 128 ft into the air before ricocheting off the tough and plunging straight into the water. A visibly baffled Scheffler watched the ball’s trajectory before helplessly throwing his arms in the air.

Broadcast microphones captured him venting to caddie Ted Scott as they walked toward the inexperienced, with cameras persevering with to roll as the pair converged forward of the next shot.

“I don’t think you understand how frustrating that is,” Scheffler said. “You cannot get the wind wrong.” The world No. 1 had also directed his frustration at Scott during the ultimate spherical of the Miami Championship. The PGA Tour star subsequently attributed the end result to the climate situations, making no point out of Scott or his involvement in the moments main up to the shot when addressing the media.

“That’s just another really good iron shot, and the wind switched from down off the right to pretty significantly in off the right,” Scheffler said on Thursday. “If it’s down off the right, that ball’s probably where I hit my wedge shot to.”

Scheffler expressed his irritation after feeling assured about his shot, only to watch the wind dramatically redirect the ball. The miscalculation led to the American star’s sole double bogey of the spherical, marking his third bogey or worse on the back 9.

“I would rather get gusted in off the left, not in off the right there. All you can do is just try to hit good shots,” he continued. “It can be very frustrating sometimes when you feel like you’re hitting good shots and then you’re going to the drop zone.”

Scheffler countered the wayward tee shot with a birdie on the seventeenth gap, but the pricey errors despatched him tumbling down the leaderboard.

Round 1 concluded with a four-way tie at the top, as JJ Spaun, Wyndham Clark, Tommy Fleetwood, and Ryan Gerard all carded rounds of 67.