"You have to be more creative here. I love that
part of it. I feel like, when I do come over here, this is
really how golf was intended to be played," said Scheffler, who
won his second Masters green jacket at Augusta this year.
"There's a lot more opportunity for shot making and being
creative around the greens," he told reporters. "It will
definitely be different tactics out here.
"The links golf is obviously different than what we play at
home, so getting used to the firmness of the fairways, getting
used to the bunkering and the speed of the greens is obviously
different as well."
Scheffler enjoyed his best finish at the year's final major in
2021, when he tied for eighth, but has failed to crack the top
20 in his last two appearances.
Scheffler, preparing for this year's Paris Olympics, knows the
windy conditions will demand quick thinking.
"Today, we got downwind on a lot of holes on the front nine. You
could hit drivers if you wanted to and could hit irons if you
wanted to as well. A lot of it is game-time decision based on
the wind," he said.
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