Mike Finger: As Scottie Scheffler surges, he delivers on a prediction
Scottie Scheffler watches his second shot on the first fairway during the third round of the Masters golf tournament at Augusta National on Saturday, April 9, 2022, in Augusta, Ga. The future of golf was purported to be growing in the hills above Lake Austin, so six years ago a sports writer drove out to find it. He’d watched the star-to-be on TV, enthralling a national audience while dueling Tiger Woods at the U.S. Open, and he’d seen him listed as the top-ranked amateur in the game.
When the kid added, with an almost bashful grin, that he felt he had a chance to be pretty good, too, the writer nodded as politely as he could. He might even have pretended to scribble something down. But in his head?It’s funny what we miss when searching for the next big thing. Every now and then, it’s something bigger. And when that sports writer tuned into the Masters on Saturday afternoon to watch the No.
In 2016, nobody was disputing the identity of the player most likely to jump from the UT Golf Club to become a major champion. That, everyone who knew anything about golf agreed, was Hossler. It was no wonder that nobody was driving out to the hills above Lake Austin to write about Scheffler back then, but he didn’t seem to mind. Hossler was more than a year older, and there was plenty Scheffler figured he could learn from how his teammate dealt with comparisons to former Longhorns standout Jordan Spieth.
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