Scottie Scheffler Wins Gold with Record-Tying 62 at Olympics
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00:00And it was record-setting on Sunday at Les Golfes Nationaux,
00:04matching a course record.
00:06That was Scottie Scheffler.
00:07A final round, 62.
00:09A final nine on the back, 29,
00:12including four consecutive birds from 14 to 17,
00:17as Scottie Scheffler stands atop the medal podium
00:20with a gold medal around his neck.
00:22Keith, how did Scottie Scheffler accomplish this
00:25in record-setting fashion in Paris on Sunday?
00:29Well, once again, Scottie Scheffler has asserted himself
00:32as the best player in the world.
00:34Guys, he lost strokes putting for the week
00:37at Les Golfes Nationaux,
00:38and he still won, by one, and took home the gold medal.
00:41You know, I sat with Joe Ranieri,
00:43a good friend of ours on Sports Grid on Saturday,
00:45Game Time Decisions, and he said,
00:47hey, what do you think?
00:48I said, well, I'm invested in ROM,
00:50and I feel pretty good about that,
00:51but if I was going to take anybody at this point,
00:54I would take Scottie at plus 1,400.
00:56He's more than triple his odds to start the week,
00:58and we only have one round to go.
01:00We have precedent for this.
01:01When you go back to Sawgrass,
01:03he shot 64 on Sunday to take that title away
01:05from Wyndham Clark and Xander Schaufeli.
01:08You go back to API and Bay Hill,
01:09he shot 66 on a Sunday.
01:11Scottie is making a name for himself
01:13for these Sunday spectacular comebacks,
01:16and guys are paying attention to the leaderboards
01:18more and more when he's in the field.
01:21It's unbelievable to try to watch this, too, Keith,
01:23because you take a look at 67, 69, 67, and 62.
01:26That was a phenomenal final round,
01:28but also, when we talk about the pricing
01:29at the FanDuel Sportsbook,
01:31I sort of joked to myself,
01:32five, six, seven shots back
01:34with, let's just say, a day and a half left
01:35in the golf tournament,
01:36and he's still priced right there
01:38as if he could win it,
01:39but he keeps providing this day after day.
01:41But the point I want to talk to you about is here.
01:43Scottie Sheffler, not a huge emotional guy,
01:46gets to the podium and breaks down there
01:48for what it meant to him here.
01:49That was an unbelievable run,
01:50and maybe he didn't anticipate
01:52on Saturday or early Sunday being in that position,
01:54then it all hit him at once.
01:56A gold medal for him
01:57just to put on that mantle was fantastic.
02:00Well, I tell you what, the Olympics, Donnie,
02:02it has really evolved over the years.
02:04We talked about this a lot last week.
02:06In 2016, we're sending Bubba Watson
02:09and Patrick Reed to these events.
02:10Now, all of a sudden, we have Xander,
02:12we have Scottie, we have Colin, we have Wyndham.
02:14We have these stars going,
02:16and it really actually means something to him.
02:18And once the golfers have bought in,
02:20obviously, it meant something to Hideki.
02:21We saw Tom Kim move to tears
02:24because we know about the mandatory military service
02:26that he faces over in South Korea.
02:28These guys have really bought into this.
02:30And I think that Scottie, above all else,
02:33he had to be in a very emotional moment.
02:35I mean, think about the year he's been through.
02:37We forget about all of this
02:38because with the seven wins,
02:40the gold medal, the green jacket,
02:41but he's the only guy I know in the top 10 in the world
02:44that spent time in jail this year.
02:45You know, he's the only one that had a mugshot.
02:48Imagine the emotional rollercoaster
02:49he went through that day.
02:50I was there in Valhalla.
02:51I saw that press conference after he shot 66,
02:54and he warmed up in a jail cell.
02:56This guy has had an unbelievable season.
02:58And although, you know, some of the critics
03:00are going to want to say,
03:01well, it's not as good as Tiger,
03:02it's not this, it's not that,
03:04Tiger used to always win from the front.
03:06Tigers do, Scottie's doing a lot of winning from behind.
03:10And that's really unique in my mind
03:12and pretty special for what we get to see this year.