When four players in separate press conferences use nearly identical language to describe the same problem, it’s no longer a complaint—it’s a pattern. Thursday at the Hero World Challenge, Scottie Scheffler, Wyndham Clark, Corey Conners, and Sepp Straka each pointed to Albany’s chipping conditions as the round’s hidden adversary, and their technical precision revealed something deeper about what’s happening on the ground in the Bahamas.

The diagnosis was unanimous: grainy Bermuda lies, raised greens, and balls sitting down in unforgiving turf. Scheffler, tied for the lead at 6-under with Clark and Straka, didn’t mince words when asked about the short-game difficulty. The grain has a lot to do with it, he explained. The ball has a tendency to sit down in the turf, and with most areas below

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