Strange tricks of the world's number one golfer at BMW Championship
Par5 15 hole, 609 yards long, against the wind when the third round of the BMW Championship 2023 takes place on August 19. With the driver in the hole, Scheffler sent the ball down the fairway, 321 yards from the flag. The second shot was still blocked by the wind, but the path to the green was clear.
In this situation, the PGA Tour world often chooses wooden sticks. However, Scheffler thinks a hitter, thanks to its lower bounce than a wooden club, will be more beneficial in reaching the target because the ball will be less susceptible to wind resistance when flying low, and rolling more.
"It's a risky choice, of course, but it's less complicated than getting a wooden club for a second shot and then having to hit another 90 yards upwind while the hole is on the back of the green, which slopes back to front. ", Scheffler later explained further on CBS Sports.
With this risky choice, Scheffler continued to use the driver for the second shot. After he shot, the ball hit the edge of the green, 24 meters from the hole
From there, Scheffler added two more strokes to birdie on hole 15. This was his seventh birdie, alongside a bogey on the 9th and a par sequence on the 16-18th hole in the penultimate leg. As a result, the 27-year-old American golfer became T1 (-11) with his British colleague Matt Fitzpatrick and also the defending US Open major champion. The two are just one stroke away from Brian Harman - the golfer who won the oldest major in golf at The Open last month.
The BMW Championship 2023 takes place on the North par70 course of the Olympia Field golf complex in the suburbs of Chicago. The tournament is only for the top 50 FedEx Cup tables, from which the top 30 are filtered for next week's Tour Championship grand final to determine this season's PGA Tour overall champion. In the competition for the throne, Jon Rahm is leading, and Scheffler is second, in contrast to the position correlation on the world professional men's golf table (OWGR). But if he finished first in the penultimate tournament, Scheffler would top both the OWGR and the FedEx Cup, thereby starting the Tour Championship with a -10 point and a two-stroke lead.
