Wild ruling decides Rory McIlroy vs. Scottie Scheffler skills match

Does golf really need another Silly Season event? The debut of the highly watchable Optum Golf Channel Games Wednesday night proved that . . . yes, it just might. If you missed the action from Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Fla., two teams of four pros — one captained by world No.1 Scottie Scheffler and the other by world No. 2 Rory McIlroy — competed in five skills challenges: timed drives, which were set up as head-to-head duels in which the players bombed tee shots into a scoring grid; timed short-game shots, in which the players hit a series of chips before hustling to a golf cart for a short...