MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Scottie Scheffler has turned to a tour chaplain as his caddie Sunday for the ultimate spherical of the FedEx St. Jude Championship after Ted Scott needed to depart as a result of a household emergency at residence in Louisiana.
Scheffler started the ultimate spherical two photographs out of the lead.
Brad Payne, a chaplain to a number of PGA Tour gamers as president of the School Golf Fellowship, is an in depth pal of the world’s No. 1 participant and has been on this spot earlier than.
Scheffler turned to him as a fill-in caddie for the third spherical of the 2024 PGA Championship at Valhalla, as a result of Scott’s daughter was graduating. That turned out to be the day after Scheffler was arrested for not following police directions throughout a visitors fatality investigation.
Scheffler fell out of rivalry with a 73 that day, which he later attributed to adrenaline from one of many more unusual episodes at a significant — the Masters champion was arrested, booked into jail, launched and made it again to Valhalla in time for his tee time after which shot 66. The fees have been later dismissed.
The PGA Tour didn’t disclose what led Scott to depart Memphis for Louisiana after the third spherical.