Scottie Scheffler Wins Gold, Shocks at the Olympics

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00:00It is, uh, it is official here in the Olympics, uh, that, uh, we now know our gold medalist

00:11is with Team USA in golf, Scotty Scheffler with a, I don't even know why we're surprised

00:18here with a absolutely unbelievable Sunday, uh, to catapult himself into a gold contention.

00:26And once again, Tommy Fleetwood does what Tommy Fleetwood does very well, and that's

00:31fold when it matters the most.

00:33And nobody knows that better, uh, than our good friend, Brady Cannon, uh, who's stepping

00:38in here.

00:39And by the way, uh, Team USA 28, 24, nice rebounding effort here, uh, in the women's

00:45basketball side, uh, still about four and a half minutes to go into second quarter there.

00:49But Brady, uh, the choke of all, I just didn't expect ROM to go that direction here today.

00:57But he did.

00:58And Tommy Fleetwood, I thought he was poised, man.

01:00He's got to win on this course, doesn't he?

01:02Like this was all set up for Tommy Fleetwood.

01:06And then where the hell was Scotty?

01:08What?

01:09Like, why were we not looking at Scotty Scheffler over these last three days?

01:13Well, you know, it's just absolutely incredible.

01:16And what a final round it was, Joe.

01:19And, and I'm not going to say Tommy Fleetwood lost it.

01:21He shot five under par.

01:23That's pretty darn good.

01:25And you and I nailed it on Saturday.

01:26We said the winning score was 19 under.

01:29We said if John ROM or Xander Shoffley, if you asked him if they'd take 19 under, I bet

01:34they would.

01:3519 under got it done for an American.

01:37We just didn't expect it was going to be Scotty Scheffler.

01:40My goodness.

01:41If there was any question as to who the PGA Tour player of the year was coming into this

01:46competition in Paris, there's no longer a question.

01:49And that was firmly answered today as Mr. Scheffler adds a gold medal to his green jacket

01:55and now seven tournament wins on the year.

02:00Absolutely stunning.

02:01Xander Shoffley fell off the map really completely.

02:04It started at the sixth hole, I believe, when he made bogey.

02:07John ROM, absolutely stunning as well.

02:11Just as incredible as Scheffler's 62, a 62 to get it done on Sunday.

02:18John ROM had a four-shot lead with eight holes left to play.

02:23And I don't know what it was.

02:24I think he shot about five over on that backside.

02:28Didn't even medal after being out in front to win gold by four shots with eight to play.

02:34Didn't even finish on the podium.

02:36It was just a wild turn of events.

02:38And I think another thing that was absolutely incredible, Joe, you saw this leaderboard

02:43just shifting like crazy, especially in the second half of the morning here.

02:49When ROM had gotten it to 20 under, everything just started going nuts.

02:54Victor Perez of France was, you know, just made what a showing he had in front of his

03:00home crowd, nearly got to the podium.

03:02Everything was going nuts.

03:03And after all that, after all the dust settles, we don't even end up with a playoff for any

03:08of the medal positions.

03:10Just a wild, wild Sunday.

03:13We expected it was going to, you know, be fireworks, but boy, I did not expect anything

03:18like this.

03:19And like I say, if you told me an American was going to win gold, I absolutely would

03:23have bet a lot of money it was Shopley and not Sheffler.

03:27And it's crazy because we talked about how the numbers that you had for him were just

03:33absolutely crazy.

03:34Numbers you don't see.

03:36You certainly haven't seen all year long, but the guy comes up and comes up big.

03:41In fact, I believe ROM was the only guy on the leaderboard and on the first page there

03:45to shoot 70.

03:47Everybody else.

03:48And to your point, these were some great numbers.

03:50This was great golf here today, but only one guy went low enough early enough to put the

03:56pressure on.

03:57And that was the other question we had yesterday, who's going to post the number and put the

04:01pressure on the guys that got to finish?

04:03And I think, well, who else?

04:05Scotty Sheffler.

04:07And I still don't think his putting was great this week.

04:09That's the amazing thing, Brady.

04:11Yeah, no, you're exactly right, Joe.

04:14For the week, he lost strokes to the field with the putter about a third of a stroke,

04:19you know, more than a quarter of a stroke.

04:22Excuse me, about of a third, a third of a stroke.

04:25He lost to the field with the putter, but he came up big when it mattered.

04:29He gained over a stroke and a half with the putter on Sunday.

04:34Obviously, you need something like, gosh, I'm getting all choked up here.

04:39You need something like that when you shoot a 62.

04:42Obviously, you have to have the putter firing when you shoot a 62.

04:46And Scotty picked the right time to find a hot day with the flat stick.

04:50But you're right.

04:51And that's why we really didn't figure he was going to be a part of this equation.

04:55You know, he was four shots off the pace.

04:58We talked about it.

04:59We were looking at Rory at 10 under.

05:00I think D3 started at 10 under.

05:03And of course, Scotty, you had Matsuyama at 11 and Hoigard at 11.

05:09And we were figuring it was going to take an eight or nine under, you know,

05:12to maybe at least get into a playoff.

05:15But it didn't figure that Scotty was going to be the guy to turn that trick

05:19because of the woes he had had putting all week long.

05:22And just, I mean, the guy just continues to amaze.

05:26It, you know, right, right when we're just talking about it yesterday,

05:29Xander Shockley, clearly the best player in the world for the last month.

05:33Boy, he just turned everything on a dime with 18 holes of golf here on a Sunday.

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