TRAVELERS CHAMPIONSHIP

June 26, 2026

Scottie Scheffler

TPC River Highlands

Press Conference

Q. When was the last time you had to putt at breaking 60?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: The actual putt or broke 60?

Q. The putt.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I don't know. It's been a while. It's been a while since I had to hole a putt to break 60.

Q. When you were on the range this morning, did it feel like a day when something like this might happen? It seemed like conditions couldn't have been better.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Well, yeah, like you said, the conditions were really good this morning. Softer golf course, not as much wind.

Going out yesterday in the afternoon, when the greens get firm out here and the wind starts to blow, it can get tricky pretty quickly. Yeah, going out this morning, you definitely had a feeling the conditions were going to be easier, so you need to go out there and try and take advantage of it.

Q. Do you think fans outside the rope appreciate a day like today, 60? With a couple of breaks not necessarily going your way, you could play the same way, it could be 64, 65, but it worked out today in your favor. It's a fine line, right?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I'd say in golf the line is always pretty fine. I'm sure if you looked at today's round versus yesterday's round, it's probably pretty similar from a ball-striking perspective. It's a matter of holing a few putts.

Some days they're kind of hanging on the edge and not quite going in, and then other days they're finding the bottom of the cup. Today was a day definitely which most of them were finding the bottom of the cup.

Q. Scottie, 13 through 16 you birdied. At some point are you telling yourself I'm looking at 59, and you want to think ahead, and I got to do this, this, and this to get to 59? Are you thinking that out there at all?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, not really. After birdieing 15, I was kind of like, oh, yeah, maybe 9-under now. A few more, you could shoot 59.

At the end of the day, I was very focused on just my execution out there. Who knows what the lead is going to be after today? I've put myself in position now this week. Go home, get some rest, and get ready for tomorrow.

Q. Any similarities to the 59 you shot at Northern Trust, anything close?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I wish my golf memory was a little better, to be honest with you. I remember the end of that round, the birdie putt I made on 18, but outside of that, I don't really remember a whole lot.

I remember I got beat by a bunch of shots at the end of that tournament. I remember that part. I think Dustin, that day he was, like, 10-under or 11-under through 12 or something crazy like that. He ended up beating me by like ten shots through the week. That one didn't work out how I intended to, but it was a nice round.

Q. Is this at all like when a pitcher has a perfect game going? Do people talk to you less or more as the round progresses when there's a shot at this?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, I played with Si Woo at the Byron when he was on 59 watch. I don't feel like he'd change anything.

I'm not one that talks a ton on the course anyway, so if somebody wants to talk to me, I'm more than happy to chat. But if the other guy is in his own world, I kind of chill and not really do anything. I don't really have a hard stance either way on that. For me, I don't really feel like much changes.

You know, when Si Woo was having that crazy round at the Byron, I just kind of acted normal. I don't know, it's not like you want to stay away from him. I don't know. I just wouldn't overthink it.

Q. At the end of the day, you're out here to win golf tournaments. When you are over that last putt, looking back, do you think it will be more important to have a three-shot lead going into the weekend or to shoot 59?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Oh, yeah, a three-shot lead is always better. Three is better than two.

Like I said, there's a lot of opportunity out there, so who knows how the rest of the day is going to shake out? At the very least, I'm not going to be in some of the positions I've put myself in this year, being eight, ten shots back as the weekend starts.

Pleased to be in the position that I'm in, and go home, get some rest, and get ready for the next couple of days.

Q. I'll give him a call later, but watching from the outside in, it looked like you had it all in your grasp, and then Teddy started over-caddying on 17 and 18. Just let him know.

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I couldn't have said it better myself (laughing).

Q. (Off microphone) -- is that one of your advantages that you don't remember what happened in the past and it's always the next round, the next hole?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: Yeah, I mean, it's like, I mean, the old kind of adage in golf is you have to be really smart or really dumb. I don't want to call myself dumb, but some of that, like, my long-term memory is not as sharp. Maybe it's a little bit easier to kind of put some things behind me.

But I also like going back and watching some of the good stuff so I can recall. As a golfer, I think you're always searching for feels and kind of things that you like. Sometimes when you can get back into those moments, you can remember them better.

For some reason, the 59 was a tournament in which I lost by, like, ten shots or something like that. It wasn't one where I would really want to go back and kind of look.

I remember the feeling over the putt on 18 and stuff like that, but the rest of the round, I don't really remember, for whatever reason.

Q. Knowing the history of this course and Jim Furyk's 58, did that ever cross your mind today?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: It was kind of funny. It was like, yeah, it would be cool to shoot 59, but somebody has already shot 58 here, so it's not even the course record. So it's not like...

You know, Jim kind of takes away a little bit of the special 59 when you are losing still.

Q. One of the cliches in the game is one of the hardest things to do is sort of back up a really special round, like you obviously had today. Is there anything now that you do, don't do, don't even think about it, the weekend is a whole different deal than today?

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER: I mean, not really. I think that's a little overrated. I think when you are playing good, you're playing good.

Yeah, I just wouldn't overthink it. Like today, just continue to focus on my execution and things I can control. We'll see what the results are.