Scottie Scheffler’s back in the PGA Tour winner’s circle and has a hockey team to thank
Scottie Scheffler became the first player in the 50-year history of the Players Championship to repeat as champion when he edged Wyndham Clark, Brian Harman and Xander Schauffele — three of the top 10 players in the world — to take home the title at Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., on Sunday.
But while Scheffler’s play on the course, including a revamped putter, was to be commended, so too was the work behind the scenes by a team that kept the former Texas Longhorns star limber enough to go through his routines en route to his eighth PGA Tour victory. And some of it included staff members from a certain NHL team that has its affiliate in Austin.
On Friday morning, Troy Van Biezen, the director of sports performance and science with the NHL’s Dallas Stars, received an emergency text.
It was from Marnus Marais, the South African-born physical therapist whom he handpicked to take over for “his guys,” when he stepped aside this season after 21 years of averaging more than 200 nights a year on the road to provide consistent chiropractic care to Tour pros. His “guys” have included four world No. 1s — Tiger Woods, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and Scheffler, the latter three of whom he passed on to Marais.
The reigning world No. 1 had just finished receiving treatment from Marais on the course during the second round of the Players Championship for what Van Biezen termed a cervical strain to the neck with radiating pain in the right shoulder.
Marais has been working with top players for 10 years on the PGA Tour and already had an impressive stable, so Scheffler was in good hands. In fact, Marais was in a peculiar position with one of his other clients, Schauffele, being one of the tournament front-runners and eventually holding the 54-hole lead. (He finished tied for second.) But Van Biezen has worked with Scheffler since he was 14 years old, and Scheffler, Spieth, Si Woo Kim and Tom Kim still work with him and receive treatment when they are at home in Dallas.
So the message from Marais after he gave Scheffler treatment said simply: “You got the train going. I’m just trying to keep the train on the tracks.”
Van Biezen might have been busy with his day job tending to the needs of a hockey team that is among the leading contenders for this season’s Stanley Cup, but he also knows the tendencies and movement patterns of Scheffler better than anybody else so he was in regular contact with Marais.
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