Two-time Masters champ Scottie Scheffler will make his second look on ESPN’s Faculty GameDay when Texas hosts Georgia Saturday.
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The final time Scottie Scheffler was the visitor picker on ESPN’s Faculty GameDay, his Texas Longhorns almost upset No. 1 Alabama again in September 2022. Come Saturday he’ll take the stage as his alma mater — this time the top-ranked workforce within the nation — hosts No. 5 Georgia within the marquee matchup of the weekend.
The information of Scheffler’s look first broke when Kirk Herbstreit talked about it on the Pat McAfee Present on Thursday.
Scheffler, 28, is coming off among the best seasons in golf historical past, together with six wins and one of many largest salaries ever earned by a professional golfer. He gained the Tour Championship — and claimed the $25 million FedEx Cup bonus — and likewise added an Olympic gold medal to his resume. However the largest second of his season got here in April, when Scheffler gained his second main championship (and second inexperienced jacket) on the Masters.
After all, one storyline that may additionally come up on Saturday was his eventful week on the PGA Championship in Might, when he was arrested by Louisville Metro Police whereas making an attempt to enter the course on Friday morning (prices had been later dropped).
It’s no shock the GameDay crew is in Austin for Texas-Georgia. The powerhouse applications have solely confronted one another 5 instances of their historical past, however that was earlier than Texas joined the SEC over the summer time. Texas holds the 4-1 sequence edge and gained the final assembly, 28-21, on the 2018 Sugar Bowl.
Scheffler’s first guest-picker look in 2022 was additionally memorable for a unique cause. Texas males’s golf coach John Fields shocked him with the Jack Nicklaus Award for PGA Tour Participant of the 12 months (an award Scheffler is sure to win once more this yr, though it’s but to be introduced).
A few months after Scheffler’s inaugural look, three-time main champion and one other former Longhorns star, Jordan Spieth, joined the crew because the visitor picker when Texas hosted TCU.
Faculty GameDay airs 9 a.m. to midday ET on Saturday on ESPN.
