may have been what vaulted him to the top of the Official World Golf Rankings, but it was far from his only success in match play format.he beat then-World No. 1 Jon Rahm in a head-to-head matchup on Sunday
Scheffler’s most significant amateur title -- the U.S. Junior Amateur, which consists of a 64-person match play tournament -- came in 2013, one year after Jordan Spieth won his second title in 2011 and one year before Will Zalatoris won the event in 2014.State champion on a bum ankle. Scheffler won the 4A 2013-2014 state title by six shots in a two-round event. He was the only golfer to post a round in the 60s at any stage of the tournament, and he did so by shooting a Day 1 round of 66.
“I stepped on an acorn. Because they were freaking out. They’re like, Oh, my gosh, we heard a pop, we heard a pop. And I was like, my ankle isn’t broken, but it definitely was stinging for a while. It was my left ankle, and I just played all week with my foot turned out to the side and just kind of grinded it out I guess.”“Left ankle. So I flipped it like that and just kind of used my hands and just went out and played.
, gave him top billing for the day, even though a handful of golfers still on the course were a shot or two better at -3 and -2.