The PGA championship was affected by a controversial ruling on the opening day, while Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele quit because of the clay balls in Quail Hollow
Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler did not hide his frustration by mud balls in the PGA championship, with moving controversy because of the choice against favorite lies The first day of the year.
In spite of the Sky Skies that covered Quail Hollow on Thursday, the pre-event rains caused Annoying problems. Both Shovel and Scheffler, playing next to Rory mcilroy – Who tackled Significant problems by self – Problems were found in the 16 hole, which was the seventh of them for them.
After landing on the court, they both discovered clay clinging to their balls and, with the non -favorite lie, could not clean them. This caused the golfers to send their seconds to the danger of the water that flanked the green, contributing to double bogeys among the first four players in the world.
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Schauffele, who completed his round in two parts, addressed the problem after the round, stating that not only he was fighting, but a shared feeling: “All of us. I’m not the only boy. I’m in front of the camera. I would not want to go to the dressing room because I’m sure many guys are not very happy with the conditions.
“I feel the grass is so good, there is no real advantage to clean the ball on the street.
“It’s where I ended up in the ball. I was lucky of three or four holes in a row where it ended at the top of my ball, and then guessing the turn that will take off.”
He then warned: “The mud balls will worse. This was not your question, but they will get worse as the plays dry.
“They will go to the perfect cake area to where it is a kind of mud below and then picked up mud on the road.
“I mean, you just keep, I don’t know, maybe hit it a little lower in the shirt, but unfortunately, the problem of hitting the lower is that the ball does not carry or roll anywhere, so you sacrifice the distance. It’s a bit of craps.”
A frustrated Scheffler, recovered to finish, suggested that the situation had left the competition at “coincidence”, as he gave a long response explaining his concerns, but admitted that he was “not surprised” on Wednesday’s sentence.
“I mean, I don’t make the rules,” Scheffler said. “ I think when you are looking for the most authentic golf forms, such as when you go to play the gulf of links, there is no reason to play the ball in a bond golf course. No matter the rain fall. The route can be flooded with water and, in some ways, the ball will still bounce off due to the path that is the grass and the ground below.
“A American Golf is significantly different. When you have overseen roads that are not headed with sand, there will be a lot of mud on the ball, and this is just a part. When you think of the purest golf test, I personally do not think that hit the ball in the middle of the street you have to punish.
“In a golf course as well as this, it is probably a situation where it would be the least likely difference in playing it because most of the lies you get here are really good. So I understand what a golf purist would be like, oh, playing it as it is.
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“But I don’t think they understand what it is, literally, to work all their lives to learn how to hit a golf ball and control -and hit the distance and control the distance, and suddenly, due to a decision of rules that we have completely left by chance.
“In golf, there is luck enough during a 72 hole tournament that I do not think the story is whether the ball is played or not. When I look at the golf tournaments, I want the purest and most fair test of the golf, and in my opinion, maybe the ball today should have been played.
“But, as I said, I do not go the rules. I deal with the decisions of the rules. I could have let this bother me today when you had a mud ball and it cost me a couple of shots.
“It took me two shots in a hole, and if I let this bother me, I could cost five shots for the rest of the round. But today I was proud of how I stayed there, I did not leave -I got to myself and I could play solid golf in a day when I was a bit everywhere and still published a score.”