Scottie Scheffler produced an error-free round of seven-under par 64 at the RBC Heritage on Thursday.
Scottie Scheffler‘s form around Harbour Town Links looked ominous for the rest, although Justin Thomas leads the RBC Heritage after shooting a sparkling 10-under par 61.
It was far from easy out there on Thursday morning, but the 28-year-old American certainly made it look like it was.
However, after his opening round, Scottie Scheffler made it very clear that ‘golf is hard’.
He’s got a funny way of showing it hasn’t he!
The challenge for Scottie now will be to rack up his first PGA Tour win of the 2025 season, before he heads into the final three majors of the year.
Scottie Scheffler says he hit a really good shot on day one at the RBC Heritage
Scheffler’s ball striking on day one at Harbour Town was imperious yet again.
He was 1st in ‘Strokes Gained: Approach to Green’, with +5.166. He hit 15 out of 18 greens and 11 of 14 fairways (PGA Tour).
Scottie Scheffler always talks up the need to be patient on the golf course, rather than chase pins.
And his exemplary round on Thursday was a prime example of exactly that.
There is never a day that goes by without the two-time major champion trying to learn something new about his game.
Scheffler was asked to explain what he means by the need to continue learning on the golf course:
“I mean learning about your swing, game. I feel like in golf you can always be learning. There’s always a takeaway you can have from each round of golf, whether you can be a little sharper mentally or maybe a swing feel, something like that. There’s always something you can take away from a day.
“Today was a day in which my main takeaways will be how well my ball-striking was and mentally how I was approaching shots.
“For instance, a shot that won’t really get talked about from today was into 17. We’re standing on the tee box, in between 8 and 9-iron, and the wind is off the left and it’s down. It’s a really hard shot because the greens are firm, and Teddy and I just did a really good job of talking through the shot, figuring out what club we wanted to hit, and I executed the shot the way we wanted to.
“At times this year, maybe a little doubt would have crept into my mind about how I was feeling, and just standing there on 17 was able to get up there and just hit a really good iron shot and be committed to what I was doing, and the result was good following that.“
The shot he mentioned really was right out of the top drawer. With the wind whipping over his shoulder, the two-time Masters champion hit his tee shot just right of the pin, around 18 feet from the hole.
However, that kind of shot is just looked at as the norm for Scottie now!
What Scottie Scheffler thinks of PGA Tour’s new ‘range-finder’ rule
Range finders have been brought into play at the RBC Heritage this week.
Scheffler responded when asked what he thought of the distance measuring devices being brought into play.
“You’re not going to like this answer, but I kind of forgot about that,” he joked when asked about using rangefinders.
“I’ll trust Ted what he wants to do. I don’t really care. He’s the one that gets the number. I’m sure we’ll have it in the bag.
“We’ve been using it PGA the last couple years, haven’t we? Is it going to help pace of play? Maybe a few minutes. Will it be anything significant? No.“
It remains to be seen whether the use of rangefinders helps to drastically combat slow play.
But at least the PGA Tour are trying something different.
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