PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — The Louisville Police Department will be happy to hear that Scottie Scheffler has a new approach to traffic jams at major championships. He eliminates them. He won the British Open the way he won the 2022 Masters, the 2024 Masters, and the PGA Championship two months ago: with such authority that nobody had to stick around until the end, including the other golfers.
Scheffler began the day with a four-stroke lead, pushed it to five after two holes, and then made perhaps the least troubling double bogey by a Sunday leader in major-championship history. He hit the lip of a fairway bunker on the 8th hole, needed another swing to get out, and walked off the 443-yard par 4 with a six. If ever there was a time for Scheffler to feel pressure, this was it. On the next hole, he stuffed his approach inside five feet and made birdie. Of course he did.
