MONTREAL – It wasn’t too sophisticated for Scottie Scheffler when his agent offered him with the proposal for a made-for-TV match that pitted Scheffler and Rory McIlroy towards Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka.
“These are two guys I actually miss competing towards,” Scheffler stated Tuesday.
Extra particulars can be identified within the coming weeks, however the two-man crew competitors, scheduled for mid-December in Las Vegas, is being billed as the primary direct PGA Tour-versus-LIV battle – even when Scheffler didn’t appear to view it that approach, as a possible subsequent step in golf’s ongoing civil warfare.
McIlroy and Scheffler will tackle Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka this December, in accordance with Golfweek.
“There’s simply so many transferring items in that deal,” he stated. “It’s a type of issues the place my friendships to guys on the market hasn’t actually modified that a lot. I feel at first, when a number of the guys had been suing us” – together with DeChambeau, who was a part of the unique lawsuit towards the Tour – “that was a bit irritating for gamers out right here, however over time these issues type of fade. I don’t suppose there was a ton of ailing will for that sort of stuff. On the finish of the day, you have got what you are promoting, and you’ve got your private stuff, and I attempt to not cross the traces an excessive amount of simply because issues get just a little hazy there typically.”
Scheffler has match-play historical past along with his two opponents.
He partnered with DeChambeau at his first Ryder Cup in 2021, going 1-0-1 in a pair of fourball matches collectively. His partnership with Koepka didn’t go as properly final yr in Rome – they went 0-1-1, together with a 9-and-7 loss in foursomes play that represented the worst defeat in Ryder Cup historical past.
“When (my agent) initially introduced it as much as me, I used to be like, Yeah, it seems like enjoyable,” Scheffler stated. “(Brooks) has had an excellent profession; he’s a man I really like competing towards. You’ve obtained Bryson, with all his stuff, I feel he’s a enjoyable man to be round. It positively me, and the best way issues fell collectively, it appeared to work out good. It looks like a enjoyable deal.”
