Scottie Scheffler gained gold within the males’s Olympic golf competitors by tying the course file within the remaining spherical, defeating fan favorite Tommy Fleetwood of Britain.
Scheffler scored a nine-under-par 62 to finish the occasion at 19-under, one stroke forward of Fleetwood, who claimed silver.
Hideki Matsuyama of Japan gained the bronze medal after ending joint fourth in Tokyo three years beforehand.
The Olympic triumph caps off an incredible yr for Scheffler, who gained his second Masters inexperienced jacket in April as one of his six tour victories for the time period.
“While you go to a sporting occasion, you hear everyone within the stands singing the nationwide anthem, it’s a fairly particular factor to be part of, and I believe that’s one thing we take super pleasure in,” he mentioned of his feelings on the medal stand.
“It was simply very emotional being up there on stage there because the flag is being raised and sitting there singing the nationwide anthem. Sure, that’s positively one I’ll bear in mind for a very long time.”
Scheffler has turn into a stronger championship menace since changing his TaylorMade SS Proto putter with the Spider Tour X Mallet.
“I had tried a Spider through the playoffs final yr,” Scheffler mentioned.
“It was just a little little bit of a distinct sort of Spider than the one I used final week. At occasions final yr I struggled lining the ball up in the course of the face, so I lined the ball up on the toe generally, and I struggled with a tiny little bit of a heel strike, and that was simply — you recognize, simply turned type of my miss. Like if I used to be preventing a duck hook off the tee, I used to be preventing just a little little bit of a heel miss with the putter.”
The gold medal profitable bag of Scottie Scheffler
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (8 levels @8.25, D4 swing weight)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 7 X (45 inches)3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 levels @14.25)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X (42 5/16 inches, tipped 1.5 inch, D3 swing weight)Irons: Srixon ZU85 (3, 4), TaylorMade P7TW (5-PW).Shafts: Nippon N.S. Professional Modus 3 Hybrid Prototype 10 X (3), True Mood Dynamic Gold Tour Challenge X100Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (50-12F, 56-14F), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks Proto (60-T).Shafts: True Mood Dynamic Gold Tour Challenge S400Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X.Grip: Golf Satisfaction Professional Solely
Hosel: L-Neck
Size: 35.5 inches
Website line: True Path with Full Line
Loft: 3 levels
Lie: 72 levels
Insert: Surlyn Pure Roll
Grips: Golf Satisfaction Tour VelvetBall: Titleist Professional V1
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