Scottie Scheffler very frustrated in practice ahead of the Players Championship as issue comes up which really riled him up

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Scottie Scheffler is eyeing history at the Players Championship title this week, with a third successive title on the cards.

Scheffler fought a neck injury to win the Players Championship last year, having also won the tournament in 2023.

The 2025 Players Championship features the world’s top 10 golfers, with world number one Scheffler headlining a very strong field.

He has been among the players practising at TPC Sawgrass this week, attempting to get to grips with the challenging course.

But it is a venue in which he has enjoyed plenty of success, with his back-to-back Players Championship wins coming at TPC Sawgrass.

Scottie Scheffler ‘frustrated’ in Players Championship putting practice

An issue has, however, been spotted with Scheffler ahead of the tournament, with Ryan Lavner spotting growing frustration for the 13-time PGA Tour winner during his putting practice.

“With regards to Scottie we showed a video where he was working on the practice green with Phil Kenyon and as the time progressed Scottie got more and more frustrated,” he said on the Golf Channel Podcast with Rex & Lav.

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“I don’t know if they were bad strokes or bad reads but the putts were not going in. He started hitting his shoe with his putter, he was gesticulating with his hands, there was clearly a frustration with his putting.

“If you go back to Bay Hill he was last in the field with his putting in the second round and the final round. Afterwards he sort of brushed it off.

“He said he putted really well and Bay Hill’s greens are really challenging, they are sort of dead at the weekend and he’s not going to put a lot of stock into it.”

Scottie Scheffler in ‘different frame of mind’ compared to a year ago

Scheffler is, of course, one of the very best out there in terms of a long list of areas, but it will be interesting to track his putting this week.

TPC Sawgrass looks set to be unforgiving in that area and on approach, with Xander Schauffele describing around the greens as ‘scary’.

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Scheffler goes into the tournament with just four PGA Tour starts this season due to injury, but he does already have two top 10 finishes.

Moreover, he won the Players last year after success at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, representing two of his seven titles in 2024.

Continuing his pre-tournament analysis of Scheffler’s putting, Lavner added: “Clearly it’s a different frame of mind with Scottie as it was a year ago, when he won at Bay Hill and there was sort of was that an anomaly on the greens that he had some sort of revelation.

“I don’t think it’s the crisis of confidence he was experiencing a year ago. We have at least seen Scottie putt well with this claw method he adopted, he blew out the field at the Hero World Challenge.

“So I think that is going to be something to watch because I think we know what to expect with Scottie in terms of his ball striking, execution and his precision.”