{"id":864736,"date":"2026-08-22T20:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864736\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:12:09","slug":"bellerive-stifles-scottie-schefflers-moving-day-hopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864736\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellerive stifles Scottie Scheffler’s Moving Day hopes"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. LOUIS \u2014 Whatever momentum Scottie Scheffler collected around the turn at Bellerive Country Club on Saturday<\/a> was lost on a back nine that saw the world\u2019s top-ranked player card an even 35.<\/p>\n

Two birdies, two bogeys, a few par saves. And a few birdie putts that ran just short of the hole. <\/p>\n

Some movement up the leaderboard but nowhere near enough to catch 36-hole leader Wyndham Clark,<\/a> who sits nine shots ahead of Scheffler while playing his back nine. <\/p>\n

Scheffler expressed confidence in still being in contention at the BMW Championship on Friday after putting together a 65 while confirming he was feeling sick \u2014 but needed a strong weekend performance to fulfill such expectations. <\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s front-nine 33 was an improvement from his second round start that opened with a bogey at the par-4 first hole. It was the back nine that proved to be the difference maker.<\/p>\n

Unlike his electric, bogey-free Friday performance on the final nine holes <\/a>that saw him head into the clubhouse six shots off the lead, Scheffler found bunkers and other challenges throughout his third round closing stretch at Bellerive.<\/p>\n

He bogeyed two par-4s, the No. 12 and No. 15 \u2014 two holes that have caused him a bit of stress this week, albeit not costing him any strokes on the field until Moving Day. <\/p>\n

The start of the tournament was anything but memorable for Scheffler, who got in with an opening round 72 on Thursday<\/a> amid reports that he feeling sick.<\/p>\n

Saturday proved to be the middle of the three rounds in terms of scoring but echoed the earlier performance in that trouble was pervasive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS \u2014 Whatever momentum Scottie Scheffler collected around the turn at Bellerive Country Club on Saturday was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-864736","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\/864736","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=864736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}