Scottie Scheffler leads another major championship after three rounds.<\/p>\n
This time, he\u2019s four shots clear at the 153rd Open Championship at Royal Portrush, where he fired a 4-under 67 Saturday to push to 14 under. He\u2019s bogeyed just three holes in three days while playing the par-3s in a combined 6 under, including Portrush\u2019s Calamity Corner, the par-3 16th, in 3 under.<\/p>\n
Also, consider this stat: Scheffler has not lost the last nine times he\u2019s led after 54 holes.<\/p>\n
As Scheffler continues to dominate, the world No. 1 did what he does best Saturday evening, downplaying his performance and advantage heading into Sunday\u2019s final round.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just trying to execute, not overthinking things,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve been doing the right thing so far, and I\u2019m looking forward to the challenge of tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Scheffler\u2019s competitors were more inclined to put Scheffler\u2019s first few days in more detailed perspective.<\/p>\n
Here are some of the best quotes from Saturday:<\/p>\n
Rory McIlroy<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, look, Scottie Scheffler is \u2013 it\u2019s inevitable. Even when he doesn\u2019t have his best stuff. He\u2019s improved so much with his putter. Yeah, it\u2019s going to be tough to catch him tomorrow if he keeps playing the way he does. But if I can get out tomorrow and get off to a similar start to what I did today, get the crowd going, hopefully he tails out a couple groups behind me, and you never know. But I just need to go out and play another really good round of golf tomorrow and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
Matt Fitzpatrick<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s be realistic, he\u2019s five ahead. It\u2019s not easy. But if you get off to a good start, then obviously put a bit of pressure on early doors and hope for the best really. You get 3 under through six, like some of the guys today, 7 the par-5, and all of a sudden you\u2019re kind of right back in it, you would hope. For the most part, you don\u2019t want to be behind, you want to be leading as much as you can. It\u2019s clear what I have to do tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis putting is night and day obviously. From what you guys all talk about how bad it was at one point, I didn\u2019t play with him really in that period. He\u2019s just not missed a putt today. There isn\u2019t one putt that he\u2019s missed, and that\u2019s obviously the difference that\u2019s taken him to this unbeatable run, which is annoying for me that Phil Kenyon shared those secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris English<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s unbelievable. I call Scottie a friend. I\u2019ve known him for a good while since his amateur days. I\u2019m just so impressed with his work ethic. No. 1 in the world for I don\u2019t know how many weeks, but he works harder than anybody I\u2019ve ever seen. He\u2019s got a great system. He\u2019s got — just his belief, and he works like he\u2019s never going to play in another major championship ever again. It\u2019s really impressive. Just a great guy overall. He\u2019s easy to root for. I can\u2019t say anything bad about the guy. It\u2019s impressive to watch, and what he\u2019s doing is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bob MacIntyre<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s by far the best player in the world. I remember the start of this year, asked Mike the stats guy, asked Mike to look at all the stats to see how close we are to No. 1 in the world. Mike stopped after a couple of stats checked and he went to No. 2 because he realized it. I mean, when we checked the stats, Scheffler was further ahead of No. 2 in the world than I was at wherever I was, 15, 16 in the world, to No. 2. Yeah, he\u2019s an exceptional player, great guy. Yeah, works so hard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler leads another major championship after three rounds. This time, he\u2019s four shots clear at the 153rd…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}