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Scottie Scheffler is playing in the US Open 2024 this weekend. The 27-year-old will tee up at the Pinehurst Resort and Country Club's No. 2 Course in Pinehurst, N.C. on Thursday, June 13. The Masters champion will be set to have a go at his second major of the year.
The 2024 US Open is headlined by Scheffler. The World No.1 golfer, who entered the event via exemption, will lead the major championship event’s 156-player field. Notably, the field will have 50 of the top 50 in the Official World Golf Ranking among the top contenders.
Scheffler will go up against the likes of Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele, Viktor Hovland, Jon Rahm and reigning champion Wyndham Clark, among others.
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Scheffler comes into the US Open 2024 on the back of a victory at the Memorial Tournament. The ace golfer registered his fifth victory of the season at Muirfield beating a solid field. Interestingly, no previous US Open winner has won a PGA Tour event the week before the major.
Despite the trivial fact, Scottie Scheffler is the favourite to win the American major. According to CBS Sports, the 11-time PGA Tour winner comes into the US Open with 11-4 odds. This is the best odds a player has had at the event in the past many years. He is followed by Schauffele (10-1), McIlroy (10-1) and LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau (10-1) on the list.
For the unversed, Scheffler has had a stellar season so far, the ace golfer started off his 2024 schedule with a T5 finish at The Sentry. He followed it up with a T17 at the American Express, T6 at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, T3 at the Phoenix Open and T10 at the Genesis Open. Interestingly, the golfer went off a winning run from there.
He clinched victories at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, the Players Championship, the Masters and the RBC Heritage.
Notably, the in-form golfer was denied a five-in-a-row winning streak by a T2 finish at the Houston Open before the Masters. He finished T8 at the PGA Championship and T2 at the Charles Schwab Challenge before his latest win in Muirfield.
Scottie Scheffler on heading to the US Open without rest
Scottie Scheffler teed off at the 2024 Memorial Tournament on June 6, just a week ahead of the US Open. Notably, the golfer soon revealed that he is “not a pre-major guy” and didn’t need weeks of rest ahead of the major. The 27-year-old claimed that he didn’t require big preparations ahead of the Augusta Masters as well.
The 10-time PGA Tour winner said he’s always ‘mixed it up’ between events, to get just enough rest before certain outings. He reiterated that he’s never shied away from playing the Scottish Open ahead of The Open Championship.
Speaking about not taking the week off ahead of the US Open, Scottie Scheffler said (at 3:49):
“I've done it before. I've kind of mixed it up throughout the years. During the Masters, I've never really played the week before or I did it once and it didn't work out as well as I'd hoped it would.
My thing was I always didn't want a huge layoff like a four-week layoff before major. I think three weeks would be kind of my max in terms of how many weeks I would want to take off before major. But outside of that, I typically played the Scottish before they open Championship.”
It is pertinent to note that Scottie Scheffler has bagged over $21,000,000 in prize money earnings this season so far. The new dad doesn’t seem to slow down.
