Scottie Scheffler leads the RBC Heritage by one stroke over Sepp Straka after 54 holes at Hilton Head, in a field that numbers only 69. So what's new other than that they didn't begin with 145 or so players? Everybody else is in the Dominican Republic for the Corales Puntacana Championship, where there's nobody named Scheffler.

    If Scottie goes on to win later this afternoon, and there's no reason to believe he won't after yesterday's 63 sent him into the lead, it will mean four victories and a second in his last five starts. As formidable a feat as it is, it just isn't the same without Dustin Johnson, Jon Rahm, Bryson DeChambeau, Ocala's Louis Oosthuizen, Brooks Koepka and the rest of the A-list gang who defected to LIV in response to the buckets of cash being offered by the Saudis.

    There's no denying the game has suffered since the defections. PGA tour attendance is down, as is TV viewership, and it's been a disaster for LIV. Even the Masters suffered, despite the mammoth crowds that followed Tiger, but his second half demise cast a pall over the whole affair.  

    Like the old 1955 song from 'Daddy Long Legs,' Something's Gotta Give, or the days of Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Arnie and Tiger, won't be anything but a memory. 

    Wesley Bryan leads at the Dominican event at 17 under par, with Kevin Tway one stroke behind. Two Gators made the cut of 4 under; Billy Horschel is fifth with 67-69-66-202, 14 under, and Tyson Alexander is tied for 32nd with 69-70-69-208, 8 under. Seminole Daniel Berger has fallen to 3 under. 

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