Really? DeChambeau won the 2020 U.S. Open.

After Greenbriar, DeChambeau said to himself: “All right, what did I do there that was so good, and how do I keep doing it?”

He has since replaced all of his clubs except his putter.

Scottie’s still sizzlin’

Scheffler, who won two of his previous three PGA Tour events and lost the third in a playoff, has spent the past 47 weeks ranked No. 1 in the world. The 2022 Masters champ showed why again Thursday.

Scheffler birdied four of his last seven holes Thursday to finish 6-under and in second place. It was his best of 17 career rounds at Augusta and his first bogey-free round.

Scheffler played like a man without a care in the world, even though his wife, Meredith, is due to have their first child in three weeks.

“Maybe I should be more concerned,” he said Thursday.

(As an aside: My wife gave birth to our first child three weeks early. I missed it at Phillies spring training.)

Chip-ins

World No. 2 Rory McIlroy, who needs a Masters win to complete the career grand slam, finished Thursday 1-under. ... Defending champion Jon Rahm finished 1-over. ... Nick Dunlap, the amateur who won the American Express in January — the first amateur win on the PGA Tour since Phil Mickelson in 1991 — has since turned pro. He finished Thursday at 5-over. ... Mickelson, who finished tied for second last year, his best result in any tournament since joining LIV in 2022, finished 1-over. ... Tiger Woods got up-and-down on Nos. 10, 11 and 12 to stand at 1-under through 13 holes when play was suspended.

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