The diploma Masters champion Scottie Scheffler earned from the McCombs School of Business at Texas didn’t equip him with the expertise to determine the new formulation for the Official World Golf Ranking.
He is No. 2 in the world. He can return to No. 1 if he wins the Hero World Challenge, easy as that.
“I don’t like being No. 2,” he stated. “I don’t like finishing second.”
Scheffler took a step in that route in the relentless wind at Albany. He ran off 4 birdies in a five-hole stretch on the again 9 for a 4-under 68, leaving him in the group one shot behind defending champion Viktor Hovland.
Hovland is aware of a little about wind. The Norwegian noticed sufficient of it throughout his novice days throughout Europe, after which he starred at Oklahoma State.
Hovland chipped in for eagle for the second straight day, had three straight birdies on the again 9 and had a 70 for a 36-hole complete of 5-under 139.
Scores sometimes are a lot decrease in the vacation occasion Tiger Woods hosts for a 20-man area of elite gamers in the Bahamas. The course was soaked and performed lengthy on Thursday. It dried out in 30 mph wind on Friday.
Xander Schauffele leaned on beautiful wedge play for a 68 and joined Scheffler, Cameron Young (69) and Collin Morikawa (71) in the group one shot behind.
Tom Kim dropped two pictures on the remaining three holes and that gave him a 72, leaving him two pictures behind. That’s not the motive the 20-year-old South Korean raised each arms after he had signed his card. Scrolling by means of his telephone, he discovered South Korea had superior to the knockout stage in the World Cup.
“Goose bumps,” Kim stated as he stretched out his arms.
Scheffler spent extra weeks at No. 1 than anybody this 12 months, which earns him the Mark H. McCormack Award. That was a product of 4 wins towards sturdy fields in the spring, together with his first main. The Masters was his final win.
Rory McIlroy changed him with a win in South Carolina in October, and now Scheffler has a probability to seize it again, even when for a quick time. McIlroy is predicted to be No. 1 when the 12 months ends no matter what occurs in the Bahamas.
The mannequin went from ranking the prime 200 gamers in a area based mostly on their world rating to ranking everybody in the area utilizing the “strokes gained” formulation, which measure precise scores and adjusts for relative issue of every spherical.
It favors deeper fields, no matter what number of of the prime gamers are there. And it gained’t be totally built-in till subsequent August.
But there was no scarcity of complaints, with even Woods weighing in this week that it’s a flawed system. Some of the criticism stems from the new formulation not giving as a lot credit score to smaller fields in contrast with full fields.
“I think now I would say the top players are not bringing as much weight to events as they should,” Scheffler stated.
The Hero World Challenge has 15 of the prime 20 in the world. It additionally has solely 20 gamers, and so the winner will get barely fewer factors than the winner of the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
“But it’s also really tough to rank golfers when they’re not playing the same schedule,” Scheffler stated. “So I think as we all start to play together more often and you get the best players playing together more often, it’s going to be much easier to rank those guys.
“It’s a tough system. It’s not something that’s easy to get right,” he stated. “In other sports, you have a record and golf is not necessarily a record. It’s a challenging system. I think they went from one extreme to the other, and we’ll meet in the middle, hopefully, and find something that’s a little bit better.”
The final measure stays the low rating, and that belongs to Hovland. Woods, who is just not taking part in this week due to plantar fasciitis in his proper foot, is the solely participant to have gained the World Challenge in consecutive years.
He’s undecided how he’s getting it achieved, particularly in this wind.
“It’s kind of strange, like I knew it was windy and I feel like I missed so many putts,” Hovland stated. “And I still don’t feel like I’m hitting it very good. I’m not comfortable over the ball, but the ball’s going straight and I’m giving myself looks.”
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Scheffler makes a late bid to return to No. 1 in the world
Scheffler makes a late bid to return to No. 1 in the world
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Scheffler makes a late bid to return to No. 1 in the world
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