OAKMONT, Pa. — If you wanted a good old-fashioned clump-of-grass-in-your-face U.S. Open, you got it. So did Scottie Scheffler. As erratically as the No. 1 player in the world played Friday, he was grateful when the check arrived and the bill was a 1-over-par 71. It could have been worse. That would be a good slogan for the U.S. Open, by the way, and perhaps for the entire USGA: It Could Be Worse. The event’s logo should be a grimace.
“I was not hitting the ball in the correct spots and [was] paying the price for it,” Scheffler said. “With the way I was hitting it, it was easily a day I could have been going home.”
