Greensboro, North Carolina | It took a few minutes before 9 hours Wednesday and Adam Scott set up a Downhill Putt for one of his pro-Am partners in the last hole of his nine-hole round on the Wyndham Championship, the heat of the day that is already building.
If Scott’s season had gone a little better, the 45-year-old would probably be somewhere else, waiting for the Fedex Cup play-offs to start next week. But on the 85th on the Fedex Cup Points list, and with this week at Sedgefield Country Club the last chance to crack the top 70 to get ahead, Scott chases the big week he has not had this year.
Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler, two others in the same Golf Celebrity Orbit, also play the Wyndham championship, which has cultivated his latest-CHANCE-MAKE-SPLAY-OFFS place on the schedule in a week with multiple story lines.
The three of them – Scott, Spieth and Fowler – remain magnetic figures, but because they have slipped into professional golf terms in middle age, what was once easy to come is now more difficult to correct.
While Spieth and Fowler have been booked for at least the first Playoff event next week in Memphis, Scott needs a week as he had here in 2021, when he lost in a play -off.
“I actually think that when it is a last chance, this is my last chance to play on the PGA Tour for a few weeks, it is doing or dying. That is a fun way to play,” said Scott, who has no top 10 finish this year, despite part of the American open lead with 13 holes in June.
‘Sometimes we or I have that [fallen] In the fall of Like there is always next week if it doesn’t work and that is not the case here, so I think that is not a busy but more motivation. “
The game keeps moving. A decade ago Spieth was the most important championship -collecting star that Scottie Scheffler is today. Fowler won the player championship. Scott still cherished in the glow of his victory of Masters 2013.
Now Chris Gotterup is the taste of the month, Ben Griffin tries to lock up a Ryder Cup spot and the 39-year-old Keegan Bradley is on a decision that the golf world is skirting.
For Spieth, who is in the 50th position in the points race and must stay there or have to improve the next two weeks to insure his place in the characteristic events of the Tour next year, this has been a different kind of year.
He missed the first month of the season that recovered from the wrist operation, was on a good role when a neck/upperback number led him to withdraw from the Travelers Championship, and recently he and his wife Annie welcomed their third child and left him only since the US who came in the Wyndham.
Spieth stood outside on Wednesday when the Heat Index floated, Spieth spoke about how strange it felt to be on the road without his family this week. He has established himself in a routine in Dallas, so that his work is done early, so that he can be in the pool with his children in the afternoon.
He is excited to play for the next two weeks, both because of what is at stake – Spieth stays in the Ryder Cup discussion – and because he feels that he is on the edge of a breakthrough week. A good week here or in Memphis will follow him at the biggest events next year.
“I didn’t like to ask for exemptions this year. I was lucky to receive a lot of them, but you just never know. And if you miss increased events, the way it is structured, they have the best players in the world in the world and you don’t want to miss any of them.
Both Scott and Spieth Sound have convinced that their games are good enough to win, but sewing the various pieces together has been elusive at the same time.
“It would be nice to have a huge boost this week and don’t have to worry about it next week, but I am fully prepared for some stress next week on that 50 number, and Ideally a good start this week or next week is really taking a lot. So the way to have a good start is not to think about it and just play the way I have played.”
There is a difference in chasing shape and chasing results. Both Scott and Spieth Sound have convinced that their games are good enough to win, but sewing the various pieces together has been elusive at the same time.
“There is nothing technical that I really do, except that I just have to start the ball in the hole on the greens. I think I have to stay calm and take my time and they all have to pretend to win the putt and hopefully,” Scott said.
Spieth said it like this:
“It is as if I had nine holes here where I made nothing, it could have been 4 under nine holes to spark a round, or I had nine holes of a number of bad iron shots that you throw a bit out of it, so I finish somewhere seventh to 13th instead of a chance to compete.”
“This year was not necessarily terrible. [I] The feeling that I just didn’t take many opportunities in which I put myself in a position where I might have a decent weekend and have a solid finish. ” – Rickie Fowler
As for Fowler, the 61st is in the points race, there is a similar chorus. He has only missed two cutbacks in 18 Starts (plus one withdrawal) but has only one top 10 finish to show it. Fair games and places have been the most important perpetrators.
“This year was not necessarily terrible. [I] The feeling that I just didn’t take many opportunities in which I put myself in a position where I might have a decent weekend and have a solid finish, “Fowler said.
Fowler is nowadays a 36-year-old father, but his popularity, especially among young people, continues to exist. He has two own young daughters who keep him busy, he said that he had no chance to view his cameo in the recently released “Happy Gilmore 2.”
With an ice-filled towel around his neck while he finished his pro-AM round on Wednesday, Fowler patiently posed for photos, drew some signatures and made it accessible to look easy.
It has been more than five years since the last victory of Scott, more than three years since Spieth won at Hilton Head and two years ago that Fowler won.
Only two weeks ago, Scheffler talked about how quickly the tension of the victory can disappear, so that Fowler encourages himself to say: “It’s pretty short and fast. It is as if life does not stop, it continues.”
This week is another memory.
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