Scottie Scheffler hasn\u2019t spoken to Jordan Spieth since the conclusion of The Open last weekend in England, but the World No. 1 understands his fellow star\u2019s decision to withdraw from this week\u2019s 3M Open.<\/p>\n
Spieth just finished a stretch in which he played nine events in 11 weeks. It\u2019s all in an effort to get inside the top 50 of the FedEx Cup standings, which would solidfy his spot in next year\u2019s high-purse, high-profile Signature Events.\u00a0 Spieth has already played 19 events this season, the same number he competed in all of last year.<\/p>\n
His efforts have born little fruit. Spieth currently stands at No. 55 in the season-long race with just two weeks remaining in the regular season after this event. His best finish in his past five starts was a tie for 56th at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom my point of view it\u2019s understanding for him to maybe need a week off, especially as he tries to grind and make his way into the Top 50 to get back into the bigger events next year,\u201d Scheffler said at his press conference Wednesday in Blaine.<\/p>\n
Spieth finished near the bottom of the leaderboard at last week\u2019s major, missing the cut at 10-over par. Scheffler noted this sport is mentally \u201cmore of a grind than anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPhysically, it can wear you down as well,\u201d he said, \u201cbut mentally it can being challenging just from \u2026 the grind it is in order to play a tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n
Scheffler and his fellow Texan play \u201ca lot\u201d of golf at home and he said Spieth \u201cworks super, super hard.\u201d This week may have simply been the right time for a reset.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sure he\u2019s bummed not to be here this week,\u201d Scheffler said. \u201cBut like I said, he\u2019s worked really hard this season and played a lot of tournaments. So I\u2019m sure he wishes he could be here, but rest and time at home is also important as you try and play good golf.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler hasn\u2019t spoken to Jordan Spieth since the conclusion of The Open last weekend in England, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,3332,99],"class_list":["post-780791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780791","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=780791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}