At the PGA Championship in Quail Hollow, players Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele faced unexpected challenges due to muddy conditions that impacted their game. Despite their skillful shots, mud on the golf balls disrupted their trajectory and resulted in difficult outcomes, including multiple double bogeys. Both players expressed frustration over the PGA's decision not to allow preferred lies or ball cleaning, highlighting concerns about fairness and player control. Scheffler, usually calm, passionately defended the effort players put into mastering the game, stating it was unfair to be penalized by course conditions.
Mud clung to dimples. Trajectory vanished. And shots, struck with intention, wandered toward water. The game's greats found themselves flummoxed not by wind or misjudgment but by policy.
Scheffler, normally composed, delivered an impassioned defense of player control, of years spent mastering flight and spin, only to see it undone by a layer of earth.
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