{"id":10634,"date":"2025-06-13T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/scheffler-fights-at-u-s-open-71-reveals-world-no-1s-mental-battle\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T15:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:55:39","slug":"scheffler-fights-at-u-s-open-71-reveals-world-no-1s-mental-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/scheffler-fights-at-u-s-open-71-reveals-world-no-1s-mental-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler Fights at U.S. Open: 71 Reveals World No. 1&#8217;s Mental Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"OAKMONT, Pa. &#8211; Despite a round of 71 strokes (+1) in the second round of the U.S. Open, world number 1, Scottie Scheffler, expressed relief at having managed to limit the damage on a notoriously difficult course.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I feel like I fought really hard. It&#8217;s a challenge out there. I wasn&#8217;t putting the ball in the right places and I paid the price for it.<\/p><cite>Scottie Scheffler<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nScheffler, who finished the day with five bogeys and four birdies, acknowledged that the situation could have been worse. Friday&#8217;s round represented his sixth consecutive round over par at the U.S. Open, including the four rounds of the previous year at Pinehurst No. 2.\n\nScheffler&#8217;s rollercoaster began with a birdie on the 10th hole. He stayed 1 under par for the next four holes, but a bogey on the 15th set him back. From there, he added bogeys on four of the next eight holes, although he also managed birdies on holes 2 and 4.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Mentally, this was the toughest day I&#8217;ve had to face. &#8230; Overall, I&#8217;m definitely not out of the tournament. Today, I think, with the way I was hitting, I easily could have gone home, but I fought pretty hard to stay in the competition.<\/p><cite>Scottie Scheffler<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0613%2Fr1506189_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El viernes marc\u00f3 la sexta ronda consecutiva de Scottie Scheffler, n\u00famero 1 del mundo, por encima del par en el U.S. Open.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\nScheffler hit the characteristic bunkers of the course three times, including a tee shot on the 3rd hole. Normally calm, Scheffler hit his driver with frustration when the ball landed in the sand.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When you put the ball out of position here, you just have to try to get it back in play. That&#8217;s really all there is to it. Sometimes you can get lucky and get a good lie and maybe get to the green. But that wasn&#8217;t happening for me today. I decided to keep hitting into the rough for some reason.<\/p><cite>Scottie Scheffler<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nFor Scheffler, the key to finishing the day without falling further behind the lead was to maintain patience during a round that lasted more than 5 and a half hours.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>There were moments today when you feel like you could give up, just because of how difficult the golf course is and how my swing feels. &#8230; Am I going to get angry about it, am I going to get frustrated, or am I just going to get the ball out and see what I can do from there? I feel like that&#8217;s what a lot of it was about today. &#8230; At the U.S. Open, I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re ever out of the tournament. If I make two decent days, I could be in 25th or 30th place after today, and, as I said, I&#8217;m by no means out of the tournament.<\/p><cite>Scottie Scheffler<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OAKMONT, Pa. &#8211; Despite a round of 71 strokes (+1) in the second round of the U.S. Open, world number 1, Scottie Scheffler, expressed relief at having managed to limit the damage on a notoriously difficult course. I feel like I fought really hard. It&#8217;s a challenge out there. I wasn&#8217;t putting the ball in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4055,163,407,1402],"class_list":{"0":"post-10634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-bogeys","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-scottie-scheffler","11":"tag-u-s-open"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}