Scottie Scheffler did have one complaint about US Open: "That part I didn't love"

World number one Scottie Scheffler is back in the saddle at the designated Travelers Championship. 

But the inquest into what happened at last week's US Open at Pinehurst No.2 is still open for the PGA Tour star. 

Scheffler went into the major at odds we haven't seen since Tiger Woods in his pomp. 

But the 27-year-old struggled to produce his best stuff, carding rounds of 71-74-71-72 to finish in a tie for 41st. 

Quite remarkable for Scheffler given his previous eight starts yielded five victories.

A huge topic in North Carolina last week was the nature of the course and how the USGA set it up. 

Some golf fans and pundits weren't how with how players were rewarded off the tee. 

For example, golfers were missing the fairway and faced a perfect lie in the wiry brush or a world of horror. 

A reporter put it to Scheffler in his news conference on Wednesday that it likely would've got in his and others' heads. 

"I would say for sure that's a pretty good observation," Scheffler said. 

"When I'm not playing my best I feel like one of my skills is kind of managing my way around the golf course knowing where the misses are. 

"When you have pretty much a coin flip on whether or not you're going to have a swing or not there's not really a side of the fairway to miss it on, there's not really areas you can play to, you just have to hit great golf shots. 

"And when you're not hitting it great, you know, I feel like that's why I'm usually able to compete when I don't have my best stuff is the way I kind of manage my way around the golf course, and last week you're just not able to do that, just with the nature of the grass. 

"Because you could hit it a foot off the fairway and be in a bush, and you could hit it 20 yards off the fairway and have a perfect lie that you're -- and it plays like you're in the fairway. 

"So that part of the course I didn't love, but tee to green -- fairway -- sorry, I should say fairway to greens, I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was a great test of golf."

He added: "It challenged us in all the right ways. You had to hit great shots in order to hold the greens. Around the greens you always had some sort of shot because you're playing out of the short grass.

"So I think sometimes when the rough is really heavy you see guys playing the same shot over and over again. And a ball that runs through the green goes the same distance over the green as a ball that barely trickles. 

"And when it's all runoff areas that are tightly mown you pay bigger penalty for a bigger miss, which I think as players that's all we're looking for is to have good shots rewarded and have bad shots punished accordingly to how bad they are."

Why Scottie Scheffler will be listening to Ted Scott more this week

Before looping for the world number one, Scott was best known for his 12-year stint carrying the sticks for two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson. 

Watson ditched Scott over fears his career was going to be cut short over a knee injury before he joined LIV Golf. 

But during their time together the duo loved coming to TPC River Highlands. 

Watson won the Travelers Championship three times during his PGA Tour career.  

"I lean pretty heavily on Ted week-to-week," Scheffler told reporters. 

"This is a golf course that he's had a lot of success on, so if there's a difference of opinion I'm probably going to lean towards him a little bit more than myself, just because I haven't had the success on this golf course specifically."

Scheffler continued: "A different tournament I may lean more to what I feel and think, whereas out here he really does a good job of managing around this golf course.

"I think of another place, Augusta is kind of like that, where whatever he says seems to kind of go for me in my head, just because he's had the success, he has the pedigree, he knows where to put the ball and where not to put the ball. 

"And especially when it comes to a lot of course management stuff clubs to choose off the tees, what areas to play into, just because, like you said, he has seen Bubba win here numerous times and he knows exactly I think how to kind of get me there, if that make sense."

Watched our latest YouTube video?