No obstacle seems too large this year for Scottie Scheffler, the World No. 1 with six wins on the PGA Tour including the Masters, plus his gold medal at the Paris Olympics. This week, however, he is in the mountains of Colorado.
The BMW Championship, the PGA Tour's second event of the FedEx Cup playoffs, will be played in thin air at a tour-record 8,130 yards long at Castle Pines Golf Club in Castle Rock, Colo. Scheffler was asked Wednesday about acclimating to the altitude, and he credited a family vacation in July in Telluride, Colo., which he said is "a little bit higher" than Castle Rock.
Telluride is 8,754 feet above sea level, while Castle Pines checks in at 6,332. "..
. the elevation got to me a little bit," Scheffler said. "So I'm kind of glad I got it out of the way then because I have struggled with it from time to time.
" He referenced his days on the Korn Ferry Tour, long before his domination on the PGA Tour, with tournaments in Colorado and "pretty extreme elevation" in Bogota, Colombia (nearly 9,000 feet). "..
. I remember sleeping really bad the first few nights," Scheffler said. "You have really weird dreams and you wake up in the middle of the night feeling like you can't breathe and just weird stuff.
"I felt like that experience playing at a little bit higher altitude has kind of helped me adjust to this week," he continued. "I was working out in the gym (on Tuesday) and I was definitely getting out of breath a lot faster than I would at home, but I feel like .