CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ninety minutes is all it took for Scottie Scheffler to put a stranglehold on the 2025 PGA Championship on Saturday at Quail Hollow Club.
He did so in trademark Scheffler fashion, utilizing an array of physical and mental tools others can only dream of possessing.
Inevitable, inescapable, unavoidable, relentless. Choose your adjective to describe the World No. 1. You can’t go wrong after he fired a third-round six-under 65 to take a three-shot lead and move to within 18 holes of a third career major title.
Scheffler, by his own admission, scraped it around Quail Hollow Club through the first two rounds, entering Saturday at five under and two shots back of 36-hole leader Jhonattan Vegas. Oh, to be able to scrape it around like that.
He opened his third round with a bogey but birdied No. 4, No. 5 and No. 7, grabbing a share of the lead on the 43rd hole of the tournament. He stayed in a jammed pack of contenders for the next six holes as a major championship leaderboard finally settled in.
Then, like a boa constrictor, Scheffler choked the life out of the tournament with just four swings.
The first came on the drivable par-4 14th. Scheffler stepped up to the tee box and hit a three wood from 305 yards to three feet. The result? An eagle and the outright lead.
