Scottie Scheffler’s cunning use of local rules (twice) avoids explosions

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is looking for his first win of the season this weekend at the 2025 Genesis Invitational. But if it weren’t for the trouble on Friday, I probably didn’t have the chance to use local rules cleverly. twice.

Scheffler started the second round in the last nine rounds after Torrey Pines took a 70-shot start in dangerous weather conditions. Things quickly went sideways.

On the second hole of the day, Sheffler sprayed his tee to the left in the 11th hole of the 3rd 11th hole on the South route.

While the camera must be long and left, the visual performance on pgatour.com shows a worse story. With Hole kicking 215 yards, Schaffler’s ball settled 257 yards from the T-shirt box.

But the undisputed best golfer hasn’t hit more than 40 yards. Instead, he encountered a bad break when his ball bounced off the road. Those bad situations turned into a terrible situation.

Now, Scheffler stares at his second tough 40-yard chip, his second probably a curved number.

But when everything seemed to be off track, the veteran professional used local domination to escape his terrible lies.

First, when Scheffler noticed his ball, the Genesis invitation function near the 12th T-shirt was affecting his position, he saved his position through the Model Local Rule F-23.

The rule stipulates the following conditions: “Usually, when the TIO is disturbed by body or line of sight, temporary immovable blockage is usually allowed to be exempted.”

This rule allows players to concede the ball in a completely relieved place without penalty. The tour’s logo was considered TIO, so after a long discussion with the rules officials, Scheffler was able to throw his ball off the original location onto the collar of Tee Box. New lies have been heavily improved, but they are still tricky.

But this is not over yet. After practicing his swing from a new location, Schffler seemed to feel that the sign was still affecting his swing. So, after another discussion with the rules officials, Scheffler freely dropped another club length for the second time, this time in the flat part of the 12th tee perfectly lie. You can watch the entire sequence on PGA Tour’s YouTube page here.

After two of his accidental free falls, Schefler relies solely on his World Challenge skills to avoid a large number. He had a wedge in his hand, and a nice lying in front of him, throwing the second shot three feet. He then discharged the subsequent putt into a ho-hum par.

From there, Schaffler added three birdies and an eagle and shot 67, bringing him to Davis Thompson’s lead to Saturday’s third round.

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