Scottie Scheffler’s notorious Masters 4-putt? Right here’s what actually occurred

Scottie Scheffler and his caddie, Ted Scott, have made fairly the staff over the previous few years — a bunch of wins, two Gamers Championship victories and a pair of Masters titles.

Their partnership began with a cellphone name organized by a mutual pal.

“That was one of many issues [Scottie] advised me on the cellphone name, ‘I like the large moments,’” mentioned Scott, throughout an look on this week’s GOLF Subpar podcast. “And it’s important to love the large moments. In case you don’t, then don’t get within the large second in case you don’t prefer it. You will really feel the stress, and it’s important to get pleasure from that.”

One among Scheffler’s first large moments as an expert got here on the 2022 Masters, when he gained his first main title. Positive, he had gained the WM Phoenix Open, Arnold Palmer Invitational and WGC-Dell Applied sciences Match Play within the two months prior — proving he was an elite expertise — however the Masters is the Masters, and up till then he’d but to have gained a serious.

You may do not forget that Scheffler cruised that week at Augusta Nationwide. He led Cam Smith by three coming into the ultimate spherical and held a five-stroke lead standing on the 18th tee. You may additionally bear in mind what occurred subsequent — Scheffler’s viral four-putt on the ultimate inexperienced.

His caddie, Scott, additionally discovered a lesson that day.

“That was my fault; I completely distracted him,” Scott mentioned on the podcast. “I heard one other caddie inform me one time, ‘We had like a four-shot lead at Augusta, so I advised my professional, you go forward and stroll and simply take all of it in,’ and I used to be like, that’s actually cool man. He let his professional go by himself and stroll, and I mentioned I’m going to try this if I ever get that chance.

“And certain sufficient, we stand up there [on 18 at Augusta] and I’m like, ‘Hey man, take all of it in buddy. That is fairly sick.’ So he’s strolling and like wanting and it’s fairly neat, and we each stood on the entrance of the inexperienced when Cam was placing, and I’m like, ‘That is fairly particular, man.’ And subsequent factor you already know he’s sword preventing and I’m like, ‘Whoa, let’s not take all of it in but! Let’s get this putt within the gap after which we’ll take all of it in.”

Fortunately Scheffler had some photographs to play with. The four-putt double-bogey didn’t harm him, and he gained his first inexperienced jacket by three.

“I attempted to maintain my head down and simply hold doing what I used to be doing as a result of I didn’t wish to break my focus,” Scheffler mentioned afterwards. “The minute I did was on 18 inexperienced once I lastly received on there and I had a five-shot lead and was like, alright, now I can get pleasure from this. And also you noticed the outcomes of that.” [Laughs]

You possibly can take heed to the complete episode with Scott beneath, by which he talks betting with Scheffler, the best shot he’s ever seen (which isn’t the one you’d suppose), Scheffler’s PGA Championship arrest and extra.

Josh Berhow

Golf.com Editor

As GOLF.com’s managing editor, Berhow handles the day-to-day and long-term planning of one of many sport’s most-read information and repair web sites. He spends most of his days writing, enhancing, planning and questioning if he’ll ever break 80. Earlier than becoming a member of GOLF.com in 2015, he labored at newspapers in Minnesota and Iowa. A graduate of Minnesota State College in Mankato, Minn., he resides within the Twin Cities together with his spouse and two youngsters. You possibly can attain him at joshua_berhow@golf.com.