Scottie Scheffler (-15) wins Arnold Palmer Invitational | CBS Sports

Kyle Porter joins CBS Sports HQ to recap the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

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New putter New Look Same Old Scotty rule number one Scotty Sheffer back in the winner circle for the first time in almost a calendar year and it comes at the Arnold Palmer Invitational sheffler guarding a final round 66 at Bay Hill finishing a furong clear at 15 under

This marks the 27-year-old seventh win on the PGA tour and it comes in the backyard of the man who once implored us all to swing our swing it’s sweet feat your winner at Arie Sheffer five shots clear Windam clarku hold a long putt at the 72nd hole to make himself a bit of

Extra coin as well getting out of a two-way tie for second with Shane Lowry it goes Clark Lowry Henley and zator stacked up T4 behind Scotty Sheffer world number one with the putter back humet post round coverage is presented by the all new tailor made Qi irons designed to be the straightest distance

Irons in golf far and true the words of Kyle Porter as well KP always good to see you and it’s great to see Scotty rolling the rock the way he did for the tail end of this tournament including Sunday’s performance the putter change was something we had circled heading

Into the week and puts a new putter in the bag and immediately walks away with the victory what stood out to you about the way sheffler went about his business not just this week but specifically those last 24 holes or so of this tournament yeah he he was perfect over

The last yeah 24 holes like you said and I I thought one one stat that I I looked up that kind of I thought summarized that very well uh his buddy who he played with first couple days Sam Burns Burns was up by one on him on Saturday when they made

The turn and Scotty beat him by 16 over the and a so uh that I thought just summarized kind of where Scotty was at this is what we’ve been talking about though Joe right like we’ve been talking about Scotty uh in some very specific terms over the last year and it’s like

Hey this guy’s the best ball striker in the world and it’s not even really that close it’s like tiger it’s like VJ Singh um it it’s like some of the it’s like Rory back in in like 2014 it it it it it it reminds you of some of those guys

Back when they were like really at the top of their game and we kind of said hey if Scotty putts it well which he made everything he looked at on Saturday and Sunday then these tournaments aren’t going to be close and that’s exactly what you get uh at the Arnold Palmer and

Now Scotty is I think the heavy favorite to to repeat it and to do it again at the Players Championship next week I mean taking a look at the card spotless a 66 round of the day tied for round of the week here by Sheffer nine straight

One putts from whole 12 on Saturday to whole two on Sunday had all the confidence of the world back when you start seeing a couple of those putts fall he was fifth in the field in Strokes gain putting this week best in the field on Sunday and you sort of

Touched upon it there the big reliable in all other aspects of his game it was this one missing piece but he has something special that when the test gets harder he separates even further how do you define that aspect of what he’s able to do out there and what sort

Of asset can that be as we race towards major season well I I think you and I were talking about this before we came on he’s very boring you know and I think that’s a people look at that as a criticism I look at as an as an asset I

Mean that’s like his best asset is he doesn’t he doesn’t make dumb mistakes he doesn’t take stupid chances he he’s very methodical from ta to green and it obviously serves him very well I think he also has a lot of humility Joe I think he takes his medicine I think he

Looks at the Mallet putter uh even going to that this week and says listen the other thing’s not working let’s try this and now it’s it’s really problematic I’ve got some stats Here For You Joe his last 50 starts so go back to January 1 2022 his last 50 starts eight wins three

Miscuts in in that time frame that’s insane and most of those wins all but one of them are big boy vents two Arnold Palmer’s two Phoenix Open a masters a players it’s been incredible 21 top threes in that period he’s five 520 underpar since January 1 2022 and he’s

Made $ 41.8 million so it’s a run that I don’t know that people have fully appreciated but because of his methodical nature and because he is the best ball striker in the world and because he hasn’t given up on the putter it it’s a it’s a run that is going to go

Down as one of the best in recent you want to talk about runs it’s like running the football five yards a pop can’t go broke making a profit and in many times you’re going to find yourself a winner as Sheffer does here on Sunday day he is as he will be just about

Anywhere in the world he tees it up right now the favorite heading into the players plus 650 to win there according to our friends at FanDuel but there was plenty of star power throughout this week and I want to go broader on that in

A moment but first I I want to take you to will zalatoris because I know things did fade a little bit on Sunday but it looked like this might be the period to the sentence on his comeback story it wasn’t to be but even competing the way

He has 11th months removed from back surgery impressed mive KP overcoming injury and his own putter woes really how big of a presence do you see zot Taurus being as we get into these more High leverage weeks to come yeah extremely impressive I I I wrote down a

Note here I almost tweeted this out I’m glad I didn’t but I I almost tweeted on Saturday hey you could you could make zalatoris the Master’s favorite right now given his recent play his history at the majors his history at Augusta National and I wouldn’t I wouldn’t blink

I wouldn’t really be that surprised I think he is at least in my mind ahead of schedule in terms of this comeback you know he obviously had to sit out from the Masters through the end of of 2023 last year because of the back injury because of the surgery and you kind of

Thought okay let’s give him until the Masters this year let’s let him play January February March and and into Augusta and and see where he’s at he is he is way ahead of of whatever I thought he was going to be at I mean he’s just

Been so impressive from ta to Green he he really talked to Joe about simplifying his swing it’s a different swing it’s it’s not what it was pre-b back surgery and I think that’s probably uh maybe that’s intuitive maybe that’s obvious but he really talked about simplifying the swing the the putting

Stroke look simplified as well which is maybe taken some of the thrill out of following Wills alot torus but for him it’s raised the four and given him a ton of consistency so it’s really hard for me to think he’s not one of the top five guys going into both the PLAYERS

Championship next week and and the Masters here in about a month yeah all these guys who put the peg in the ground on two are world class athletes and golfers not all of them are Alphas in the way that will zator comes out comes out excuse me when he’s puffing his

Chest and feeling himself in these types of moments we’ll see what the rest of the season looks like for him but you know nobody was all that close in the nkp on the leaderboard but there were some name recognitions alluris and others on that first page of the

Leaderboard that was much of the talk coming into the week as well does this the way things transpired at the API at Bay Hill quells some of the concern or is it more of a Band-Aid to a larger issue you’re seeing throughout the year

Yeah I I I I think it’s the ladder it’ll take time to play out you know we’ll see at the Players Championship we’ll see at the Masters kind of how how things go but you know I’ve written about this and and and been pretty vocal about it’s

Been not a great year for PJ tour this was a good week right uh we got we got Sheffer we got Rory in the mix JT was up there uh zator Sam Burns I mean a lot of a lot of big names on the PGA tour but I

Think you still have the reality that John ROM’s not at these tournaments uh who was known for for driving the sixth hole at Bay Hill a couple years ago Bryson Des Shambo is not at these tournaments one of the 10 best players in the world right now Walken Neeman is

Not at these tournaments so there still is some you know there’s something missing there where you’re like okay I I don’t think any of those guys are beating shuffler I don’t think anybody’s beating shuffler this week it’s not an asterisk on his win as much as Taylor gu

Would like to to say that it is but it it it there does just something under line I think lacks still a little bit so we’ll see how that plays out over the next few weeks and and on into the first major of the Year we’re dipping our toe

Into the pool so let’s Dive In The Deep End here 50th playing of The Players Championship is on the way next week and the phrase best field in golf is one they love I fear it’s being stretched to its limit this year I I don’t offer that

As quip KP I I really do want to learn something this week what can we hope to learn maybe not on course but from the podium perhaps from the commissioner yeah I think that’s going to be fascinating I I I have a lot of questions for J monan personally that I

Would love to ask him but presumably we’ll get an update on where the status of PJ tour and and or excuse me the public investment fund of Saudi Arabia is on their uh framework agreement their proposed merger you know what does that look like I you know it’s been

Interesting a lot of players have been asked questions over the first three months of the year Tiger Woods uh Rory obviously Jordan Speed who’s on a player director uh for the PGA tour right now but J Monahan hasn’t faced that yet so I I think we have a ton to learn about

Just what the future of the PGA Tour looks like I I think there’s still a lot of just just unrest among players I mean uh wam Clark said on Saturday he wants there to be 100 guys on the PJ tour people were mad about that players were

Mad about that so I think Jay Monahan has a lot of questions to answer I don’t know if we’re going to get any details he doesn’t seem to be big on on Vision casting and and details when he gets to the podium but I think the questions

Will at least be presented we will continue to come to Kyle Porter through it all KP we appreciate your Insight as always fun weeks to come here on the PGA tour and be sure to get your hands on the QI irons from Taylor Made designed to be the straightest distance irons in

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