{"id":461238,"date":"2026-02-06T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461238\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:33:10","slug":"pga-tour-phoenix-open-2026-round-one-scores-leaderboard-scottie-scheffler-struggles-chip-video-chris-gotterup-leads-how-the-australians-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/461238\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour Phoenix Open 2026 round one scores, leaderboard, Scottie Scheffler struggles, chip video, Chris Gotterup leads, how the Australians went"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it appears Scottie Scheffler may be human after all.<\/p>\n

The dominant world No.1 had a rare shocker in the opening round of the PGA Tour\u2019s Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale on Friday (AEST), carding a two over 73 to end his remarkable streak of 33 rounds without shooting over par.<\/p>\n

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Golf is hard… Even for the World No.1 | 01:35<\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the Scottie Scheffler who has proved near-untouchable at times, and who came into this week\u2019s event at Tiger Woods-like odds of favouritism.<\/p>\n

An error-riddled round including a fluffed chip on the 18th hole that rolled back almost to Scheffler\u2019s feet \u2014 prompting a furious frustrated reaction rarely seen from the world No.1.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t see this coming,\u201d one commentator remarked, with the ensuing bogey followed up by a double and another bogey in Scheffler\u2019s next two holes.<\/p>\n

It was Scheffler\u2019s first over par in a round since the third round of the Travelers Championship in June last year.<\/p>\n

He finished the round 10 strokes behind in-form countryman Chris Gotterup, who surged to the early lead with a flawless eight-under 63 to be two ahead of Englishman Matt Fitzpatrick (65).<\/p>\n

Australian Karl Villips shot a 73 while Min Woo Lee and Cam Davis were among the late starters at the iconic Phoenix event, one of the best-attended events in world sport and renowned for it\u2019s party atmosphere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So it appears Scottie Scheffler may be human after all. The dominant world No.1 had a rare shocker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-461238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}