Pro golfer Scottie Scheffler gestures after putt at 2024 FedEx St. Jude Championship.
Scottie Scheffler is eyeing his seventh PGA Tour win of the season this week.
Nothing seems to rattle the stone-faced World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler on the golf course, as he continues to show at this week’s FedEx St. Jude Championship, where he’s back in contention yet again. That includes any winged beasts who attempt to interrupt his stellar play, as we saw on Friday at TPC Southwind.
At the par-4 16th hole, in the midst of a bogey-free second-round 65, Scheffler prepared to hit his approach shot only to stop suddenly and halt his routine, his attention seemingly affixed to something other than the $3.6 million winner’s check he’s playing for this week.
“It was some sort of bug,” Scheffler explained in a press conference following his round, referring to the distraction that faced him on 16. “I don’t know exactly what it was, but it had wings, so I was able to kind of grab it and just kind of move it.”
Just as he did a few weeks ago during his gold-medal campaign at the Paris Olympics, Scheffler has put himself in position to strike on the weekend, where he’ll be hunting his seventh PGA Tour victory of the year to further cement his place atop the FedEx Cup standings.
