When you are the top player in the world in a given sport, you always have a huge target on your back with lofty expectations. When a highly-ranked player underperforms or appears more human with a rare bad day or round,

Scottie Scheffler, winner of three of his last four starts including the PGA and Memorial, shot 3-over-par in the first round of the U.S. Open.

OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler kept coming back to the same answer when asked in different ways how a day that began with optimism at the U.S. Open turned into a 5 1/2-hour slog that left him well off the front page of the leaderboard.

Scheffler remained atop the PGA Tour FedEx Cup season race with 700 points (giving him 3,500, 834 over Rory McIlroy) and took over first on the PGA Tour money list with the $4 million first-place check in the PGA Tour Signature event.

Sometimes, even Superman struggles. Scottie Scheffler doesn’t wear a cape ... He entered this week’s U.S. Open at Oakmont having won three times in his previous four starts, including the ...

OAKMONT, Pennsylvania - Overnight U.S. Open leader J.J. Spaun got his second round underway on Friday at Oakmont Country Club where pre-tournament favourite and world number one Scottie Scheffler was unable to play his way into contention.

J.J. Spaun finishes the first round of the U.S. Open with a one-shot lead after Scottie Scheffler struggles with a round of 73.

Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler have a major each in 2025, but both are struggling at the US Open and one CBS analyst has opened up on they both approach the game in very different ways