{"id":76557,"date":"2025-08-17T14:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76557\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T14:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:44:08","slug":"scottie-scheffler-fuming-with-rules-official-after-being-put-on-clock-at-bmw-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/76557\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler fuming with rules official after being put on clock at BMW Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottie Scheffler was fuming with a PGA Tour rules official after he and Robert MacIntyre were put on the clock during the third round of the BMW Championship at Caves Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/scottie-scheffler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scheffler<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfmagic.com\/players\/robert-macintyre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacIntyre<\/a> were playing in the final group of the third round and they were initially warned about behind on the clock when they made the turn.<\/p>\n<p>The group was then told they were on the clock by the time they headed down the 12th.<\/p>\n<p>That did not sit well with either Scheffler or MacIntyre.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler felt his group had been keeping up with the pace of play well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After being put on the clock, Scheffler proceeded to make a bogey.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That further added to his frustation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down for Scheffler&#8217;s reaction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/schef12.jpg\" alt=\"Scheffler was not happy with the call \" width=\"496\" height=\"611\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>Scheffler was not happy with the call<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler was pressed on the topic after the round.<\/p>\n<p>And even then he was still miffed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah. I mean, it&#8217;s frustrating,&#8221; said Scheffler.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t really feel like I did anything to put us behind on time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bob and I got warned on No. 9, and I felt like we did some pretty good stuff on 9, 10 and 11 and we somehow didn&#8217;t gain a single second on pace of play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really sure how that&#8217;s possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Scheffler&#8217;s reaction after having been told his group was being put on the clock on the 12th:<\/p>\n<p>MacIntyre carded a 68 to take a four-shot lead over Scheffler into Sunday&#8217;s final round.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot is looking to capture his PGA Tour hat-trick and win his first title of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler is going in search of his 18th career title and fifth of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the third round, the live broadcast added a new pace chart to see how out of position a number of groups were.<\/p>\n<p>They chose to display the graphic while a certain Patrick Cantlay was about to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cantlay, known as one of the more deliberate players on the PGA Tour, was playing alongside Shane Lowry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/img_4643.jpg\" alt=\"New pace chart \" width=\"1170\" height=\"697\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>New pace chart<\/p>\n<p>  Subscribe to our Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler was fuming with a PGA Tour rules official after he and Robert MacIntyre were put on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-76557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76557","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=76557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}