{"id":68980,"date":"2026-03-14T19:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/scheffler-searches-for-form-with-masters-looming-as-aberg-leads-the-way-at-players\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T19:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T00:58:45","slug":"scheffler-searches-for-form-with-masters-looming-as-aberg-leads-the-way-at-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/scheffler-searches-for-form-with-masters-looming-as-aberg-leads-the-way-at-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Scheffler searches for form with Masters looming as \u00c5berg leads the way at Players"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>World No 1 sitting outside the top 20 with one round to go <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u00c5berg takes three-shot lead into final 18 holes at Sawgrass<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a robotic element to Scottie Scheffler during periods of success but observing the world No 1 in times of adversity is far more intriguing. There is more \u2013 much more \u2013 to the American than meets the eye.<\/p>\n<p>This is a golfer who was once reduced to tears after a Ryder Cup trouncing. While all charges were eventually dropped, the mere fact Scheffler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/may\/17\/scottie-scheffler-uspga-golf-police\">found himself in a prison jumpsuit<\/a> before a round at the 2024 US PGA was highly unusual. Last summer, he was filmed in long and histrionic discussion with his coach amid struggles at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/14\/scottie-scheffler-the-masters-golf-the-players-championship-ludvig-aberg\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No 1 sitting outside the top 20 with one round to go \u00c5berg takes three-shot lead into final 18 holes at Sawgrass There is a robotic element to Scottie Scheffler during periods of success but observing the world No 1 in times of adversity is far more intriguing. There is more \u2013 much more &#8230; <a title=\"Scheffler searches for form with Masters looming as \u00c5berg leads the way at Players\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/scheffler-searches-for-form-with-masters-looming-as-aberg-leads-the-way-at-players\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Scheffler searches for form with Masters looming as \u00c5berg leads the way at Players\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}