Moving day at the Memorial Tournament brought the biggest name in golf to the top, as Scottie Scheffler holds the outright lead by one shot at 8-under par with just 18 holes to play.
Scheffler emerged from the pack late on Saturday afternoon with four birdies in his final five holes to overtake Ben Griffin, who had been the leader for almost the entire tournament up to that point.
Of course, it’s no surprise to see Scheffler at the top of another leaderboard. The World No. 1 has finished in the top 10 in each of his last six starts and has continued to get better and better during that stretch.
Naturally, all of the talk after Saturday’s round was about Scheffler. Jordan Spieth, who is having a strong week at Muirfield Village himself, highlighted one area of the three-time major champion’s game that sticks out to him.
“What impresses me the most is his club face control is elite,” Spieth said. “It’s maybe the best there’s ever been as far as club face control. So his consistency is ridiculous. And then that just leads to his distance control being phenomenal.
“There’s a shot in and the worst he’s going to do is 15 feet, and most guys are going to hit a good there, but for him that was, like, the worst shot he probably — he’s probably, like, all right, yeah, I played that safe and cast a putt out and go to tomorrow.”
Scheffler is closing in on his third win of the season. Earlier in May, he ran away with the CJ Cup Byron Nelson with an incredible score of 31-under par before lapping the field in a five-shot victory at the PGA Championship.
Spieth is one of the players chasing the leader, but he will have to regroup after a bogey-bogey finish to his third round. In the end, he signed for an even-par 72 and sits in a tie for fourth, five shots off of Scheffler’s pace.
Not only does it seem like it would it take a Herculean effort to catch Scheffler on Sunday, it would also likely take a bad day from the best player in the world at avoiding exactly that.
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