Scottie Scheffler thinned a bunker shot into the water.
He tugged a drive that clocked a tree trunk and ricocheted out of bounds.
He three-putted his remaining gap.
And but, Scheffler nonetheless leads the Memorial Event by 4 pictures by way of 54 holes at Muirfield Village because the world No. 1 seems to be to win for the fifth time this yr, first because the RBC Heritage in early April.
“General, I believe I performed fairly strong, simply acquired a pair unhealthy breaks and it’s going to occur round this golf course,” stated Scheffler, whose 1-under 71 moved him to 10 below, 4 away from Collin Morikawa (68), Sepp Straka (68) and Adam Hadwin (72). “I imply, the golf course is basically difficult. You’re not all the time going to get good breaks, you’re not all the time going to get good lies.”
Scheffler, who led by three pictures after two rounds, birdied two of his first 4 holes on Saturday. He then hit his second shot on the par-5 fifth right into a bunker about 45 yards from the opening and caught his third shot “a little bit skinny,” Scheffler’s ball ending up over the inexperienced and within the penalty space. He’d go on to bogey and play the 4 par-5s in a mixed even par.
After bouncing again with birdie on the sixth, Scheffler acquired into extra bother on the par-4 ninth. Scheffler referred to as the drive a “slight pull” that might’ve ended up possibly 15 yards left of the green had it not hit a tree trunk, which despatched the ball out of bounds and led to a triple bogey.
“I used to be simply pissed off,” Scheffler stated. “It was like, I really feel like I hadn’t hit many pictures in any respect as we speak offline, and I had a triple on my card, and I used to be swiftly 1 over par. So, I used to be undoubtedly pissed off with the break, however total, I used to be like, I’m nonetheless swinging it actually good, I didn’t want to vary something, I simply want to remain in the fitting mind set.”
Once more, Scheffler rebounded with birdie. He’d add birdies at Nos. 12 and 15, too. A 3-putt from 64 ft at No. 18 soured his closing 9, however solely barely – and it did little to remove from the truth that Scheffler is an awesome favourite (-450) heading into Sunday at Jack’s Place.
Scheffler has transformed every of his previous 4 solo 54-hole leads on Tour into wins after beginning his profession 1 for 4.
“I don’t actually change something,” Scheffler stated. “I’m going to exit tomorrow and attempt to have an excellent spherical of golf, maintain my head down and keep in my very own little world on the market. I’m not going to essentially pay any consideration to what anyone else is doing on the market, I’m simply going to attempt to do my finest.”
