NAPA, Calif. — World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler mentioned Wednesday that he is doing issues in a different way this 12 months after his preparation going into the 2023 Ryder Cup, which the US misplaced to host Europe, was “not so good as it ought to have been.”
“Once I look again on the ’23 Cup, I feel I halved two matches and misplaced two, so I feel I left there with out successful a single match, and that damage,” Scheffler mentioned. “I feel I may have been a little bit bit sharper at that event. That was a studying expertise for me.”
“It sucked,” U.S. teammate Collin Morikawa mentioned of dropping in Rome. “It sits with you for a little bit bit.”
This time round, Scheffler is together with the Procore Championship — where he’ll play alongside Morikawa and eight other members of the U.S. team — as a part of his preparation for the Ryder Cup, which takes place Sept. 26-28. The four-time main winner mentioned that despite the fact that a number of the workforce members made a scouting journey to Rome forward of the 2023 occasion, nothing compares to staying sharp by enjoying aggressive golf.
“It might be uncommon for me to have 4 or 5 weeks off earlier than the Masters or the U.S. Open or one thing like that,” Scheffler mentioned. “So there isn’t any cause that I must be doing that going into the Ryder Cup.”
Scheffler mentioned that as quickly because the Open Championship led to July, he began enthusiastic about and making ready for the matches at Bethpage Black, and he lauded the work captain Keegan Bradley has completed to arrange and energize the workforce.
“You possibly can follow and do all you possibly can at residence, however there’s one thing totally different about enjoying competitors, preparing for a event,” Scheffler mentioned. “All people’s excited to be right here. … I really feel like going to this 12 months’s Ryder Cup, I will be as ready as attainable after which exit and compete.”
Whereas Scheffler is likely to be the most effective participant on the earth in the intervening time, his function on the workforce is not as outsized as one would possibly count on. He mentioned he does not take into consideration his explicit place as something greater than being ready and placing up factors for his workforce.
Bradley praised Scheffler’s ego-less strategy, in addition to the truth that he does not shrink back from the large moments.
“I feel he would hope that it comes right down to him in singles,” Bradley mentioned of Scheffler. “I wager he, like, desires about it. That form of separates Scottie from the remainder of the blokes.”
