An opening Eagle temporarily raised the expectations for the first round at the Open on Thursday at the Scotty Chefler’s Scottish Open, before the world number 1 came around the corner to keep the ground on the ground.
Sheffer shot an opening-round 67, when he signed his scorecard at the Renaissance Club in North Bervik, Scotland. He was part of a marquee group with defending champions Robert McIntire and Adam Scott. Scott, which ended as a runner-up for McIntire in 2024, shot 69 and a stroke was better with 1-underer with McIntire.
Even the shefflor rated his first round as “not too bad”, but he would hit the pillow wondering why he was not able to take “a little more than Round 1”.
“Surely it is definitely a bit fierce from there – it’s not that it can actually blow here, but of course there is an air. It’s something that is very high on every shot,” said the Shefler. “It was a good amount of air to play on this course. It makes the course really good where you are rewarded for killing high quality shots and you are punished for killing some poor.”
600-yard, Par-5, starting its round at 10th, the Sheffoler made his drive striped at a distance of 352 yards from the center of the Fairway and rolled his second shot from the green in front of the green, the hole was found to leave a long eagle which was found under the cup.
Sheffer said that local favorite, longs have been a favorite playing partner. This is doubled in the link golf, where the background of the McIntire and the experience on these tracks provides continuous guidance.
“He is a great man. He has fun to see some links playing golf. It seems that I learn some stuff from him,” said Sheffer.
Macintyre’s era began with its third hole, Misadventure on 12th, when Marshall announced that his ball was out of the boundary. But McIntire felt otherwise and continued his search, eventually his ball discovery was four feet inside any OB marker.
“Thankfully I did not listen to Marshall,” he said. “It managed to find a yard and a half inbound, received a drop and made a bogey. From there, it was back to the basics. Make sure we played a lot with air because the ball is getting very impressed here, as it has been since the last few months.
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