{"id":89936,"date":"2025-08-24T17:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89936\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T17:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T17:18:09","slug":"embarrassing-scottie-scheffler-gaffe-caught-by-world-no1-after-late-tee-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/89936\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassing Scottie Scheffler gaffe caught by World No1 after late tee arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"

American star is the best player on the planet but announcer still pronounced his name incorrectly on day three\"FrustratedFrustrated Scottie Scheffler(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Frustrated Scottie Scheffler<\/a> was the victim of an embarrassing gaffe on the first tee at the Tour Championship.<\/p>\n

But it was frustration with himself and not the announcer that left the World No.1 feeling irritated at East Lake.<\/p>\n

Scheffler is the best in the business and known to everyone around the planet as he\u2019s the finest talent in the sport.<\/p>\n

But despite his fame, the man with the microphone on the first tee failed to get his name right as he bizarrely announced him ahead of his first drive in a fashion which sounded like \u2018Shauffler\u2019 and more akin to his Ryder Cup<\/a> team-mate Xander Schauffele.<\/a><\/p>\n

Asked if he heard the starter phonetically incorrectly pronounce his name, he said: \u201cYes, I did.\u201d An enquiry as to whether it had ever happened to him before saw him reply: \u201cI feel like I have for sure. Yeah, people used to call me Xander. Just par for the course there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scheffler also dismissed any concern over his late arrival to the first tee as he added: \u201cNot really. I was maybe a minute later than I normally am. No big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The World No.1\u2019s opening didn\u2019t get any better as he bogeyed the first two holes, but he fought back to complete a 20th successive round in the sixties.<\/p>\n

His move left him training leaders Patrick Cantlay and Tommy Fleetwood<\/a> by four shots with one round remaining and he was peeved at his own errors.<\/p>\n

Scheffler said: \u201cFelt like another frustrating day. I felt like I did some things well, I was just a little bit off on my reads most of the day. I hit some good putts that just didn\u2019t fall. After the start I did a good job bouncing back and getting back into it. Overall I didn\u2019t shoot myself out of the tournament, which making bogeys around this place can very easily do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cProud of the turnaround, but man, I wish I could have gotten a little bit more out of the round. I par the first two holes instead of bogey them and I hole a couple putts, I would have had a pretty special round if that was the case because I still shot four-under without really holing anything and getting off to a bad start.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout that, I did some good stuff out there. Just got to continue to do that and hole a few more putts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not bad breaks. I felt like I just was barely off on my reads. Hitting a lot of good putts. Hit a good putt on 12, looked like it hopped off something; burned the edge on 13, made a good one on 15, burned the edge on 16; 17th I hit two good shots in there, I\u2019m putting right across the middle of a spine where the ball is going to break off of it all the way to the hole, so that was tough. Then two good shots into 18.<\/p>\n

“Overall I did some good stuff. I just need to capitalise on it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American star is the best player on the planet but announcer still pronounced his name incorrectly on day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,6547,3026,101,9643,56,54,55,6548],"class_list":["post-89936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-ryder-cup","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-sports","tag-tommy-fleetwood","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-xander-schauffele"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}