Scheffler's OU roomies not surprised by streak Grant Hirschman as well as Drew Ison of Edmond, who played collegiately at Drake cottie Scheffler is on one of the hot- and is now a sales consultant at Collective test streaks in PGA Tour history. Health. With his love for Southern Hills docuJust to recap, in the last six months he went 2-0-1 at the Ryder Cup as a Captain’s pick, won at the Waste Management, again at Bay Hill in the Arnold Palmer Invitational and then prevailed in the WGC Match Play at Austin Country Club, moving to No.1 in the world. Surely that meant he would freeze at The Masters? No, he went on to win in dominant fashion, with his high, soft irons, fantastic touch on chipping and pitching and solid putting leaving the field in the dust. It capped one of the best streaks of any player not named Tiger Woods. The Oklahoma pros who lived with Scheffler and played against him on a daily basis while the world struggled through the first Covid shutdown are not surprised. They have seen this before. In June of 2019, after leaving the Uni- Left to right, Max McGreevy, Meredith and Scottie Scheffler and Grant Hirschman. versity of Texas and starting his pro career on the Korn Ferry Tour, Scheffler moved mented and the previous success he’s had into a house in Dallas with former Soon- there, winning the Big 12 Championship in ers Max McGreevy, Charlie Saxon and 2015 as a Longhorn freshman and finishing by sam humphreys
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tied for fifth in 2018, he would have to be a favorite for the 2022 PGA Championship. McGreevy, who now plays on the PGA Tour, and Saxon, currently on the Korn Ferry Tour, didn’t know Scheffler when he moved into the house, but McGreey said they quickly bonded. McGreevy recalls a time the Saxon was struggling with his chipping and Scheffler came to the rescue. “It was a cold day, so we were all inside, and I remember Scottie giving basically a lesson on bounce and chipping in our living room. He’s 23 at the time,” McGreevy said. “But I am listening to literally every word that he said. Obviously he was trying to help Charlie, but all of us sat in the living room listening because he really was just way more golf smart than all of us. And that is hard to take when it’s someone younger, but he had so much knowledge that we would always run questions by him and he would sit there and answer every single one. I took a lot from that little chipping lesson in our living room. Things I still think about two years later.” “What is cool about Scottie is that you would never know he’s the No. 1 player
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