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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rockies hilariously slam Scottie Scheffler, troll themselves after winning first series of the season
The Colorado Rockies are finally better than Scottie Scheffler. After a brutal month where the top-ranked golfer in the world somehow managed to keep up with a professional baseball team, the Rockies are back on top — and they're laughing at themselves perfectly. The Rockies, amid a historically awful start, swept the Miami Marlins this week . Their win on Tuesday night officially gave them their first series win of the season, which snapped a league-worst 22-series losing streak dating back to last fall, and Wednesday's win gave them their longest winning streak of the year. Advertisement While they are still objectively terrible — they sit at just 12-50, which is by far the worst record in Major League Baseball — the Rockies are now beating Scheffler. That wasn't the case in May. Scheffler has been on a dominant run on the PGA Tour. He flew ahead to a massive win at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson early in May, and then won the PGA Championship in his next start to claim his third career major championship. Then, after a T4 finish at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Scheffler won the Memorial Tournament on Sunday. Over that span, the Rockies also won just three times. The key difference is that Scheffler made just four starts on Tour. The Rockies played 26 games. Advertisement While that led to plenty of jokes for the Rockies, they weren't the only target. The Tour even trolled the Carolina Panthers briefly, though they deleted the posts, after Scheffler picked up his 15th career win since 2022. Though the Rockies are flying high on their win streak, there's one important thing to note here. Scheffler has yet to tee it up since they started winning. If they can't bank a few more wins before the U.S. Open starts next week, and Scheffler's run continues, the Rockies may find themselves back in the same position later this month. Hey, at least they're laughing with the rest of us.
Reuters
28-05-2025
- Business
- Reuters
Scottie Scheffler maintaining an evil keel ahead of Memorial
May 28 - Scottie Scheffler enters the Memorial Tournament as the defending champion, but that doesn't make him feel overconfident as he prepares for Thursday's opening round in Dublin, Ohio. "When you show up to an event, everybody's at even par," Scheffler told reporters Wednesday. "People ask, I feel like a lot, 'What's it like defending this week?' I'm like, 'Well, what does that do for me? Nothing'. I have some experience the on the golf course that can be helpful, but at the end of the day, you start even par, and I want to be in contention on Sunday, and you definitely don't show up too high or too low." Scheffler, 28, is in the midst of another incredible season. In 11 tournaments, he's won two and finished in the Top 10 eight times. In his past six tournaments, he has won The CJ Cup Byron Nelson and PGA Championship, finished T2 at the Texas Children's Houston Open, placed fourth at the Masters Tournament, was T4 last week at the Charles Schwab Challenge, and T8 at the RBC Heritage last month. The Memorial, founded by Jack Nicklaus at his Muirfield Village Golf Club, is Scheffler's third consecutive weekly tournament. He said he is "rested enough." "My third week in a row, but I got some good rest to start -- last week, after the PGA, I got some good rest Monday and Tuesday and had a good start at Colonial. Took my day off, came here, played nine holes yesterday, played nine holes this morning, so feeling ready for the week." And he said as with all events, he is not entering with a predetermined notion that he will win. Last year, he topped Collin Morikawa by one stroke, finishing at 8-under par to win the Memorial. "If you show up with too low of expectations, not feeling like your game's in a good spot, you're probably not going to hit a lot of good shots," he said. "And if you show up feeling way too good about yourself, I think it can have an effect on your focus. Like, if you just show up and be, like, 'Oh, I'm best. I'm just going to show up and win this week,' I think almost sometimes you can get a bit lazy at times out on the course. ... You have to be very focused on what you're doing." Even as the field heads into a $20 million signature event, Scheffler was asked to look ahead to the Tour Championship in September. The PGA Tour announced Tuesday it is doing away with the staggered scoring start that rewarded leaders in FedEx Cup points with a more favorable starting score -- a change Scheffler had advocated for. "I think when you're looking at a golf tournament, I think the best way to identify the best player over the course of a tournament is 72-hole stroke play on a really good golf course. I think when you look at a good test of golf and you got to compete over four days, I think that's the best way to crown the best winner for that week. "And looking at the Tour Championship, I didn't love the previous format of starting strokes, and I really like the direction where we're going. I think the Tour Championship's going to be difficult to qualify for. Making the Tour Championship is truly going to be the results from a great body of work over the course of a season, and then you have an opportunity to win the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup." Scheffler won his first Tour Championship last season. --Field Level Media
Herald Sun
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Herald Sun
PGA golfer Harrison Endycott opens up on dark times and alcohol battles
The Korn Ferry Tour is golf's Bermuda triangle, a cosmopolitan melting pot of young up-and-comers trying to make it to the big leagues, and grizzled veterans trying to get back there. Most are stuck for years and then slowly fade away into obscurity. But it also captured a beautiful moment when Endycott finally locked up his PGA Tour status, with his dad Brian flying over from Australia to be there. They hugged and cried at what he'd achieved, but mostly because Endycott's mother, Dianne, wasn't there. She died from ovarian cancer when Harrison was just 15, largely keeping the details of her prognosis from the teenager. Endycott took her death hard. He was angry, rebellious, skipped school, the lot. 'The cards I got dealt with growing up to this point, for a long time I felt like my life was like sitting at a blackjack table and I kept getting dealt 20 … and the dealer keeps getting 21 every single time,' he says. 'I had a lot of trauma as a kid. I had a lot of things that happened in my life that I never dealt with. I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world. I needed help with that.' FINDING HELP AND A NEW PATH Endycott is speaking about his own mental health battle, partly, because he was afraid of his family receiving a phone call like the one Grayson Murray's parents had to receive in early 2024. Endycott, 28, confronted his own condition at Kentucky just two months after Murray took his life. The American had already won a PGA Tour event in early 2024 and was ranked inside the world's top 60. He'd been open with his own mental health battle. A week before he died, Endycott saw Murray on the putting green during practice for a PGA Tour stop. 'You wouldn't have had a clue,' he says. Murray was found dead a day after withdrawing from a PGA Tour event in Texas. 'I was definitely in a place where that could have been me,' Endycott says. 'I was close to going down (a path) where my family received calls his family had to receive.' After consulting the PGA Tour's player relations team, Endycott was immediately booked in to see a therapist. He didn't touch a golf club for almost four months, purely working on his mental health. His first challenge was to get sober. He stayed that way well until this year, and only occasionally has a limited amount of alcohol now. He found other pursuits to rewire his mind, mostly entailing health and fitness, where he now works out up to six times a week in the gym. He's the fittest he's ever been, enough for him to quietly make a return to professional golf last month on the Korn Ferry Tour. He made his first PGA Tour start in almost a year at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, won by world No.1 Scheffler, and will continue to be given starts under a medical exemption. Endycott didn't survive the cut in Texas, but that didn't mean he grabbed the nearest bottle either. 'A missed cut last year resulted in me sitting at a bar getting s---faced, feeling good about myself that way,' Endycott says. 'But I've found the love of the game again. Results are part of the journey. I'm playing golf now because I love golf. 'Every week feels like a stepping stone now. A four o'clock alarm to go and play … I can't wait for that. And I've learned it's OK not to be OK. People will always listen. 'The second chance I've been given, whatever I do in life is always going to be filled with joy because of what I've dealt with.' Lifeline (24-hour crisis line): 131 114 Beyond Blue: 1300 22 4636 or Kids Helpline: 1800 55 1800 or Headspace: 1800 650 890 or
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
PGA Championship: Eric Cole sinks perfect hole-in-one in opening round at Quail Hollow
The first ace of the PGA Championship belongs to Eric Cole. () The first ace of the PGA Championship goes to Eric Cole. Cole hit the perfect tee shot at the 184-yard par 3 fourth on Thursday afternoon to kick off the second major championship of the season. Cole's ball bounced four times quickly on the front edge of the green at Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina, and rolled straight into the cup — which sparked a huge celebration back at the tee box. That ace came at the perfect time, too. Cole was struggling on his back nine after opening with a bogey and a double. The ace moved him back to even par for the day. Advertisement Cole has yet to win on the PGA Tour in his career. He has two top-10 finishes on Tour this season, however, most recently a T5 run at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson two weeks ago. This is just Cole's third start at a PGA Championship. He missed the cut last season in Louisville. Tyler Collet nearly beat Cole to it early in the day. The teaching pro out of Florida came just inches away from an ace at the 13th. He was left stunned on the tee when his ball just barely lipped out. This is Collet's fourth PGA Championship appearance, though he's yet to make the cut in his career. While both Collet and Cole walked away with some incredible shots on Thursday afternoon, they were both still well behind Ryan Gerard — who jumped out to the early lead with a 5-under 66 in the early wave. This post will be updated with more information shortly.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
PGA Championship: Scottie Scheffler wears orange in rare move at Quail Hollow, nearly a year after his arrest
If Scottie Scheffler isn't having some fun as we approach the anniversary of his infamous PGA Championship arrest, this is one incredible coincidence. Scheffler showed up to Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina on Wednesday wearing a plain orange Nike polo for his practice round. That isn't news on it's own, but his choice of clothing came almost exactly a year after he was arrested at last year's PGA Championship, which led him to having his mug shot taken in an orange jail jumpsuit. While there are any number of reasons that Scheffler could be wearing an orange polo — he went to Texas, for example — this is apparently the first time that Scheffler has worn orange at a tournament since his arrest. Yes I DID scroll through a year of Getty images to confirm this — claire rogers (@kclairerogers) May 14, 2025 Scheffler has to be in on the joke then ... right? Scheffler was arrested and charged with a felony ahead of the second round of last year's tournament in Louisville after he tried to drive into Valhalla Golf Club while police were investigating a separate incident outside the gates that ended in a pedestrian fatality. Scheffler was charged with second-degree assault of a police officer, criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding signals from officers directing traffic. All of those charges were later dropped. Remarkably, Scheffler was released from custody in time to make it back to Valhalla Golf Club for his tee time. He posted a 5-under 66 that day, which was the second-best score of the round and kept him in contention. He ended up finishing T8. Almost instantly, fans showed up at Valhalla wearing 'Free Scottie' shirts with his mug shot on them. Another was spotted in a fake orange jumpsuit. Fans kept wearing the "Free Scottie" gear throughout the rest of the season, too. Scheffler, the top-ranked golfer in the world, is a slight favorite to claim the Wanamaker Trophy this week. He's yet to miss a cut on the PGA Tour this season, and he's coming off a dominant win two weeks ago at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson — which marked his sixth top-10 finish in nine starts. Whether Scheffler is playing up his arrest this year or not, there are sure to be fans in North Carolina rocking the burnt orange and "Free Scottie" gear while they follow him around the course.
