PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – As a junior golfer, Scottie Scheffler used to wear long pants because that’s what the pros wear. Even from a young age, he seemed destined to walk inside the fairways.
“I remember when I was a kid at Royal Oaks I used to wear long pants when I would practice when I was 7 or 8 years old, and everybody used to make fun of me, but that’s what I did,” he said. “That’s what the pros did, so I wore pants.”
When Scheffler won the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday, his second Tour title in his last three starts, he improved to No. 5 in the Official World Golf Ranking. It marked the first time that the top 5 in the world – No. 1 Jon Rahm (27), Collin Morikawa (25), Viktor Hovland (24), Patrick Cantlay (29) and Scheffler (25) – all were under the age of 30 since the ranking debuted in 1986.
