{"id":511618,"date":"2026-03-08T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511618\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:42:13","slug":"why-scottie-scheffler-uncharacteristically-threw-ball-in-water-at-arnold-palmer-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/511618\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Scottie Scheffler Uncharacteristically Threw Ball in Water at Arnold Palmer Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6r\">It was an uncharacteristic moment for Scottie Scheffler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"6u\">For someone who is often very stoic, the world No. 1 had just missed a 10-foot par putt on his final hole of the second round at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. So, after tapping in for bogey, he picked his ball out of the cup and chucked it in the water adjacent to the green in frustration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"70\">\u201cWas in the middle until it broke left,\u201d Scheffler was caught saying angrily to his caddie, Ted Scott.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"73\">That capped a second-round one under 71, leaving him three under overall, nine strokes back of the 36-hole lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"76\">\u201cYou can always hit it softer,\u201d Scheffler <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/daniel-berger-arnold-palmer-invitational-bay-hill-feca14608a2c931649917a938ba1dbc6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told the Associated Press<\/a> of his putt on the last hole. \u201cI was surprised the ball picked up speed as it was rolling. There\u2019s no friction. When the ball starts rolling, you\u2019re at the mercy of the wind and the bumps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Scottie Scheffler tosses his ball into the water and had a few choice words after a bogey on 18.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently 3-under, 10 shots off the lead. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zDkCqoO1dW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zDkCqoO1dW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Cook (@ThomasCookTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThomasCookTV\/status\/2030055893014868053?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7c\">It wasn\u2019t just that bogey that set the 29-year-old over the edge, though. The conditions of the greens prevented him from making the charge up the leaderboard he craved.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7f\">Another example came on the par-4 15th. The four-time major champion\u2019s shot from the greenside bunker bounced on the green and proceeded to roll 30 feet off the putting surface. However, he would impressively chip in for par.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7i\">\u201c[The greens are] already dead. I\u2019m not sure how much deader they can get. Like 15 is completely dead,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cWhen it hit the green, I thought I hit it to three feet. And then it bounced crazy forward. I don\u2019t know how that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7l\">And Scheffler isn\u2019t alone in that sentiment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-11\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7o\">\u201cIt felt like Sunday afternoon greens, but it\u2019s only Friday,\u201d Harris English said after shooting 72. \u201cI might have fixed three ball marks today because you can\u2019t find them. It\u2019s the U.S. Open in spring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-12\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7r\">Added Collin Morikawa: \u201cThey\u2019re getting brown and they\u2019re going to be very, very brown\u2014if not purple\u2014by Sunday, and that\u2019s just part of this week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-13\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-primary my-f-1.5\" q:key=\"0\" q:id=\"7u\">Perhaps, that will yield a few more ball chucks or club heaves this weekend at Bay Hill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More Golf from Sports Illustrated<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an uncharacteristic moment for Scottie Scheffler.\u00a0 For someone who is often very stoic, the world No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-511618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}