Scottie Scheffler: How does he examine to Tiger Woods after a second Masters win and may he proceed dominance? | Golf Information

Heading into final week, Tiger Woods stood alone as the one golfer to have received The Masters and The Gamers Championship – the boys’s recreation’s unofficial ‘fifth main’ – in the identical 12 months. Now, he has firm.

Equalling Woods’ iconic achievement from 2001 just isn’t the one cause Scottie Scheffler, Masters champion for the second time after a four-shot victory at Augusta Nationwide on Sunday, has been in comparison with him on a run of dominance in current months which has been not often seen since, nicely, Woods in his pomp.

One one who has resisted drawing these comparisons to date is Butch Harmon, Woods’ famend coach of 11 years. But whereas acknowledging Scheffler doesn’t, at current, have the longevity of looming giant over the game in the best way his one-time pupil did, the good {golfing} sage conceded he’s displaying each signal of being the inheritor obvious.

“It is fairly spectacular every thing he is finished this 12 months,” Harmon instructed Sky Sports activities Golf. “There is a cause he is No 1 on the earth, there is a cause he is received two Masters now, there is a cause Scottie Scheffler is the person.

“He is received to do it for 19 extra years [to match Woods], however proper now who says he cannot?

“What can he do going ahead? He can solely get higher – and that is a scary thought.”

At 27 years and 298 days outdated, Scheffler turned the fifth-youngest participant to win two Masters titles, which is 2 years and 199 days older than Woods was when he triumphed for the second time at Augusta – coincidentally, in the identical 12 months as he did his Gamers-Masters double as nicely.

Scheffler is simply the fifth participant to win two Masters titles earlier than the age of 30 as nicely, though he must win the following two as nicely if he’s to equal Woods’ report of 4 victories within the prestigious invitation occasion in that timeframe.

They’re, nevertheless, the one two gamers to carry the excellence of main after 54 holes of The Masters and occurring to win whereas No 1 within the Official World Golf Rating on two events, with Woods doing so in 2001 and 2002 adopted by Scheffler matching that two years in the past and this 12 months.

But even Woods took three makes an attempt to say the inexperienced jacket for the primary time and an extra 4 to tug it on once more. Scheffler has now triumphed twice in his first 5 begins at Augusta Nationwide, a report solely inaugural winner Horton Smith (1934 and 1936) has bettered.

What was most spectacular for Sky Sports activities Golf analyst Paul McGinley, although, was the best way the American needed to depend on totally different elements of his recreation than he has finished in different successes this 12 months, with the main participant in strokes gained on the PGA Tour this 12 months (+1.35) rating solely twenty fourth (+0.53) going into the ultimate spherical of The Masters.

“This man just isn’t on his recreation, not taking part in his finest golf, and but he is nonetheless The Masters champion so that you’re why – what’s the secret sauce right here?” McGinley instructed US broadcaster Golf Channel.

“He will get it finished by if there is a harmful gap…he depends on his good quick recreation. As off as his iron play was this week, what he did was when it got here to a harmful gap was he bailed out and relied on his chipping – he was the most effective chipper within the discipline this week.

“Then when he will get a brief iron in his hand, that is go time and he takes benefit of that, and peeling off the par-fives as nicely.

“However when there was hassle, he performed away from it and relied on his chipping when he wanted to. It was an excellent efficiency in managing your recreation.”

Scheffler’s triumph within the first main of the 12 months marked his third victory in 9 tournaments to date this 12 months, together with 4 different top-10 finishes, and is the primary participant to win at the very least instances on the PGA Tour within the span of three seasons since Justin Thomas between the 2016/17 and 2018/19 campaigns.

Nevertheless, all of his match wins in his profession thus far have come previous to that 12 months’s Masters and his finest efficiency in any of the opposite three majors is tying for second within the 2022 US Open and final 12 months’s PGA Championship.

However, he’s averaging 67.6 per spherical from 35 performed to date this 12 months with just one rating worse than 71 and has not shot a spherical over par since August final 12 months. On that type of kind, Harmon expects Scheffler to interrupt his post-Masters duck this 12 months and highlighted his strategic strategy as being the most important key to victory.

“He’s a tactician across the golf course,” Harmon mentioned. “He received this match as a lot together with his mind as he did together with his golf golf equipment.

“He’s the whole package deal. Sure, he is No 1 on the earth and there is in all probability no-one else shut – I used to suppose Jon Rahm was shut, however he is not anymore. This man goes to take over this mantle for some time.

“He is by no means received a match after the Masters – I do not suppose this 12 months is over with. He’ll win two or three extra the best way he’s taking part in.”

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The primary ladies’s main of the 12 months, The Chevron Championship, is dwell from 3pm this Thursday, with the following males’s main, the PGA Championship at Valhalla in Kentucky, happening from Might 16-19.

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