never ceases to amaze. On a blustery day that made players look foolish, Scheffler made things look easy. He paraded around Muirfield Village, making four birdies and a brilliant eagle on the par-5 15th to card a 4-under 68 at .
“Around this golf course, especially when the winds are up, just because have you so many trees that block it and when it’s gusty, it can be really challenging and start blowing from directions where it’s not quite supposed to at times,” Scheffler explained. “That’s another one of the challenges of playing this golf course. But I felt like we did a good job today of executing and putting ourselves in the right spots out there.
” Perhaps nobody has executed better this week than what Scheffler did on 15. He pounded his drive right down the middle of the fairway and then stuck a 3-iron from 238 yards to about nine feet. Scheffler then rolled it in for an eagle to get back to 8-under, reinstilling his two-shot advantage that he briefly surrendered with bogies on the 11th and 13th holes.
“It was just a nice hold 3-iron. I felt like I had a good number, and it’s nice when I have a number where I want to cut it, and the pin’s on the right, and that was one of those instances,” Scheffler said of his . Leave it to Scottie Scheffler to make an eagle look this easy.
He leads by 2 . “So I was able to hit a really nice shot in there pretty close to the pin and hole the putt.” Scheffler entered the day trailing by a stroke at 5-under.
But .