Open champion Scheffler confirmed his mettle and sophistication – regardless of just a few uncharacteristic slips – on his technique to a three-under-par 67, taking him to fifteen below for the week.
MacIntyre, runner-up on the US Open and tied for seventh on the Open, had been 16 below on Saturday night after rounds of 62, 64 and 68.
The Scotsman denied he was rattled by his enjoying associate’s consistency, whereas he selected to not touch upon obvious heckling from the galleries.
Requested what he wants to enhance, he replied: “Proper now, not a clue. Proper now I wish to go and smash up my golf golf equipment, to be trustworthy with you.”
There was a glimmer of hope for an out-of-sorts MacIntyre when he moved to inside a shot after the twelfth, Scheffler lacking a routine par putt.
However the Scotsman crashed an eight iron off the tee on the thirteenth to go over the inexperienced and a fourth bogey quickly adopted, just for Scheffler to make a multitude of the subsequent.
On the fifteenth, the American rolled in a birdie after watching MacIntyre miss his try however the roles had been then reversed on the sixteenth.
Scheffler saved his finest for the seventeenth, with an unimaginable chip-in from the greenside that rolled serenely into the opening to ship the partisan crowd wild, giving himself respiration house for an 18th PGA Tour success.
