US Open 2024 – Scottie Scheffler: “I couldn’t hole anything”

Scottie Scheffler finishes his US Open 2024 with a two-over 72. With a total score of eight over par he ends the tournament on T43. On his final day the world number 1 didn’t manage to hole a single birdie, ending the third major of the year with four rounds over par. After his round he talked about the struggle to get the ball into the hole

Scottie Scheffler talks to the media after his final round of the US Open 2024

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: It was a long week. Obviously didn’t play my best. A bit frustrating to end. Feel like I have some good takeaways from this week, learned some good things.

Q. What did you feel like was the one thing that might have been off the most?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I couldn’t hole anything. I could not see the break on these greens. The greens this week kind of had my number. I felt like I hit a lot of really good putts that did weird things at the cup that I was not expecting them to do.

When we come back here in a few years, I’ll probably try to do a lot more work getting things going on the greens. I felt like I did a lot of my work around the greens this week, and maybe I needed to do more — the practice greens weren’t the same speed as the course, and it was hard to find something similar.

I’d say that was definitely an added challenge. So I think as far as the prep work goes, probably try to do more on the course, get to know the greens a little bit better.

But other than that, I feel like I did some good things this week, but overall I definitely need to do some things better.

Q. You mentioned takeaways, but what are some other things that you need to do leading into — you were talking about playing the week before or not. What are some other takeaways?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I think playing the week before, a lot of it depends on the golf course, and I think last week with the golf course the way it is, it probably was not the best prep work for me coming into another really challenging event. I think I shot 5-under the first round at Memorial, which would have been the easiest day, and after that I was maybe 3-under from there on out. I mean, that’s pretty U.S. Open-like, and to play that many rounds, especially with what I’ve been dealing with the weeks leading up or really kind of the whole season, really playing a lot of good golf and being in contention, I think maybe my prep would have been a little bit better for this week if I was at home. But I’m obviously not going to skip Jack’s tournament. It’s a tournament I love playing. It’s a tournament that I’m humbled to be the champion at.

But as far as prep for this week, it may not have been the best, but I knew what my schedule was at the beginning of the year. I had it set. That was always the way it was going to be. I feel like going forward, I’ll maybe do things a little bit differently in the weeks leading up to majors, especially when you know it’s going to be a challenging setup at a U.S. Open.

Q. How do you get your rest and get back to Travelers next week?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well, we’re going to head home tonight. I haven’t decided exactly when I’ll head up to Travelers, but we’ll assess and see how things are going at home. Right now the plan is to go up Monday night, but we’ll assess and see how we feel at home.

Q. Any big Father’s Day plans?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: No. No. Meredith surprised me this morning with a New York bagel, which was nice. Little man was screaming as I left the house, so it was maybe a good time for me to be leaving on Father’s Day. He was a little upset.

Yeah, actually they came out on the range this morning, and it was pretty awesome. He had his little outfit on. He had a little hat on over his head. It was just hilarious. Yeah, get home as quick as we can, and yeah, just enjoy dinner tonight just us three.

Q. Was it more physically or mentally taxing playing on a hard course the week before a major?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I’d say it’s mental, but I think there’s definitely a physical aspect to it. Today I made more of a conscious effort to make sure I got kind of my legs going in the swing. That’s maybe something I’ll assess in the off-season, as well. I feel like I’ve played a lot of my best golf not late in the season, maybe a bit early in the season, so that’s maybe something to look at, whether or not I need to get more mental rest as the year goes on or maybe need to have better physical endurance. I’m not really sure which one it is.

But like I said, now I’ve been on a good stretch of golf. Had one tough event following a great event. I’m not really going to look too much into it but focus more on my prep.