{"id":526441,"date":"2026-03-16T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/526441\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T07:26:09","slug":"scheffler-undecided-on-masters-tune-up-as-no-1-struggles-to-find-rhythm-at-the-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/526441\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler undecided on Masters tune-up, as No. 1 struggles to find rhythm at The Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2013 Relative to the ridiculously high bar he\u2019s created, it was another pedestrian result for Scottie Scheffler at The Players Championship. But then the world No. 1 didn\u2019t seem to have much interest in the expectations of others at TPC Sawgrass.<\/p>\n

Scheffler closed with an eventful 71 at the PGA Tour\u2019s flagship event and he was tied for 20th when he completed his round just as the final pairing was making the turn. Following his T-24 finish last week at Bay Hill, his performance at TPC Sawgrass was sure to generate plenty of opinions \u2014 but Scheffler was at peace with his game as evidenced by his response Saturday to a question from the media: <\/p>\n

Was there anything you found in that range session late on Thursday? You spent a couple hours working?<\/p>\n

\u201cDid I find anything? I think that would imply that I was lost, which is not the case,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cNo, I think I\u2019m always just trying to get a feel for where things are at, and sometimes a little practice helps, and sometimes a little rest helps.\u201d<\/p>\n

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After wrapping up a pedestrian performance at The Players Championship, Rory McIlroy said Sunday that he might look to add an event before his title defense at the Masters.<\/p>\n

In Scheffler\u2019s defense, his driving improved over the weekend, but his normally sublime ball-striking is still well short of his established brilliance. He finished the week 44th in strokes gained: off the tee and 28th in strokes gained: tee to green, the pillars of his all-world game.<\/p>\n

Although he\u2019s played the Houston Open the last two years as his final tune-up before the Masters, it\u2019s unclear if that\u2019s the plan this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cUndecided,\u201d the two-time Masters champ said this week when asked if he intended to play another event before Augusta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. \u2013 Relative to the ridiculously high bar he\u2019s created, it was another pedestrian result…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-526441","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\/526441","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=526441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}