It’s Scottie Scheffler’s world and we’re all simply dwelling in it.
Scheffler, the top-ranked participant on the planet and PGA Championship winner this season, took the solo lead after the second spherical of play at this yr’s Open Championship. It appeared then just like the clouds of inevitability had been encircling Royal Portrush.
If that was the second the clouds confirmed up then Saturday was when the rain began and didn’t cease. Because the third spherical of play concluded Scheffler had amassed a four-shot lead over the sphere which suggests his hoisting the Claret Jug on Sunday night is extra of an inevitability than something.
Scottie Scheffler holds the 54-hole lead/co-lead for the 18th time on the PGA TOUR and is 11-for-17 up to now changing to victory, together with his final seven makes an attempt. He’s 3-for-3 in majors with the 54-hole lead/co-lead.
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) July 19, 2025
Thus far all three of Scheffler’s main championships (he has two Masters wins on high of this season’s PGA in case anybody forgot) started with him ending his Saturday rounds because the 54-hole chief. This doesn’t precisely bode nicely for the non-Scheffler gamers in Northern Eire.
It’s preposterous how inevitable Scheffler’s victory feels, however that’s the kind of participant he continues to show himself to be. You could as nicely begin speaking about him as somebody with solely a U.S. Open left to assert for the profession grand slam as a result of that’s what we wish to be in for on Sunday.
Is Scottie Scheffler (-14) extra prone to blow his 4-shot lead on Sunday or break The Open scoring document to par of -20?
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) July 19, 2025
Neglect the world of golf at this level. Is there something or anybody extra inevitable than Scottie Scheffler throughout sports activities at giant? We’re every week faraway from Carlos Alcaraz lastly falling at Wimbledon and 5 months from the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs getting blown out within the Tremendous Bowl. What are the contenders at this level?
To be clear we’re speaking about golf and particularly the Open Championship the place something is feasible. But when anybody is proving to be the exception to the rule over and over it’s Scottie Scheffler.
We knew that when the week began and nonetheless talked ourselves into different potentialities.
