Analyzing Scottie Scheffler's Wild Week at Valhalla

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00:03 Just looking at his scores for the week,

00:05 this was my own little stat experiment I was doing,

00:08 is that we talked yesterday about--

00:10 Amanda Baleonis asked him about this,

00:12 and just talking about how Friday he went out

00:15 and played well in the immediate wake of everything that happened

00:18 with the arrest and warming up, kind of played on adrenaline,

00:21 and how Saturday was obviously the big letdown.

00:25 And not only was it feeling exhausted in a lot of ways,

00:29 but also he doesn't have Ted Scott on his bag on Saturday.

00:32 And he sat with Amanda again after his round today,

00:34 and she said, feeling a little better today.

00:36 Look like you're back to usual self.

00:37 And he was saying, I'm still a little bit fatigued

00:40 and just kind of feeling a little bit off.

00:42 I'd obviously played better today,

00:43 but made some mistakes that I normally wouldn't have.

00:45 So just looking at his scores for the week.

00:48 So if you plugged in Scottie's worst non-Saturday score

00:53 of the week for his Saturday round, it would have been a 67.

00:57 He would have finished at 19 under and solo third.

01:00 If you plugged in his best score of the week, 65,

01:04 he finishes tied for first at 21 under,

01:07 and he's going to a playoff with Xander Schauffele.

01:09 I mean, how is that sitting with you?

01:13 And how do you think it's sitting with others

01:15 as we're looking at what could have been a grand slam year

01:17 for Scottie?

01:18 It's just frustrating, especially

01:20 with the new reports that are coming out

01:21 about some of the people that were actually there

01:24 as witnesses as well.

01:26 I believe it was some folks from the ESPN, their crew, Dave

01:30 Fleming, Jeff Ogilvie.

01:31 I think they had eyes on it as well.

01:34 It's noted that these charges looks like they're

01:36 going to get dropped.

01:38 It's just a really sad situation,

01:40 because I know plenty of Louisville people

01:43 that we talk to are just so frustrated by what happened.

01:46 Valhalla members, I know, are just devastated

01:50 that this happened, because it's just

01:51 going to leave a lasting memory for so many people,

01:54 because it's going to stick with Scottie for a long time.

01:58 How much does he want to see himself in a jumpsuit

02:02 from something that he feels like he has done before,

02:06 and it just was a wrong place, wrong time type of situation?

02:10 Yeah, I mean, I think that we had our fun on the internet.

02:13 I'm not like poo-pooing the fun that was had.

02:15 There were a lot of funny memes and TikToks and things

02:18 like that we had a good laugh at.

02:20 But as you're kind of like getting away from the week,

02:22 and it's a little bit sobering to think, first of all,

02:26 it needs to be mentioned again.

02:27 And subsequently, after we recapped everything

02:31 that happened on Friday morning, and we're

02:34 parsing through the tragedy of John Mills,

02:37 who they released the name of that volunteer who

02:40 was working the tournament.

02:41 John Mills, obviously, terrible tragedy for his family.

02:45 And our condolences go out to that Mills family.

02:48 So his family is impacted irretrievably.

02:52 And the same thing with Scotty.

02:53 It's like this is a thing he now has to deal with.

02:55 Whether or not the charters get dropped,

02:57 there was an arraignment scheduled on Tuesday.

02:59 It's just a thing that has to kind of live in his psyche,

03:01 and he probably has to go decompress.

03:03 And meanwhile, he's in the midst of a season

03:05 that could have shaped up as one of the best of his career

03:07 and maybe rank among the best of all time.

03:10 It's just a tough, tough thing to reckon with.

03:13 And I think that, yeah, I mean, you said it well.

03:16 I think it's tough for Valhalla.

03:18 It's tough for Louisville.

03:20 You'd imagine that the timeline for a return to Valhalla

03:24 for a PGA Championship, by then, this probably

03:29 will be an afterthought.

03:30 But still, in the immediate sense of this season,

03:32 it's just a tough, tough thing.

03:34 And let's hope Scotty's able to kind of deal with all--

03:37 and to your point about the dismissal of the charters,

03:39 I think that was first reported by Kevin Van Valkenburgh.

03:42 No laying up.

03:43 Just those charters were going to be dropped,

03:45 will likely be dropped from what he'd heard from his sourcing.

03:48 But yeah, hopefully that goes away.

03:50 Hopefully he doesn't have to go to that arraignment.

03:51 And he can just kind of move on, move past it,

03:53 and get his head right and keep playing Scotty Sheffler

03:56 golf the rest of the way.

03:57 Because that was not a fun road bump.

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