by The world number one Scottie Scheffler attributes to Tiger Woods to have inspired the crucial change for his game, which probably made him the best golfer since the pumping of the major winner 15 times.
Scheffler won the American PGA and Open championship this year, with three of his four majors over the last eight events, and also won three other PGA Tour victories in 2025.
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He is the last player since Woods to win five tournaments in consecutive seasons and although he continues to make comparisons, he admits the influence of the Grand Modern Golf triggered a turning point in his own career.
“Tiger was just different in the sense of how he approached each blow, it was like the last blow he was going to strike,” said Scheffler, who tries to successfully defend a title Fedex Cup in the end of season tour championship in East Lake in Atlanta.
Scheffler praised the intensity of Woods (Zac Goodwin / PA)
“I only played with Tiger once in a tournament, in the Masters 2020 and I think he made a 10 on the 12th hole, then he sorted, I think, five of the last six.
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“It was like” why is this guy still plays? “
“I just admired the intensity he brought to each turn. It was something that I’ve been thinking of for a long time.
“I felt like a change I had to make was to bring the same intensity to each turn and each time.
“I do not hit the most distant balloon, the things I do on the golf course that others can do, so I think it’s just the number of consistency and the intensity that I bring to each golf cycle – do not remove shots, do not remove rounds, do not remove tournaments.
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“When I introduce myself to a tournament, I’m here for a goal and it’s to compete hard and you compete hard on every time.”
These are disturbing words of a player who is currently at the top of the Fedex ranking with almost twice as many points as Rory McILroy.
However, unlike in previous years, when there were benefits of fire to win in your place in the classification of 30 men, each player is now starting a peer level and the winner on four laps not only the touring championship, but the FEDEX Cup and a bonus of US $ 10 million (7.4 million pounds sterling).
“I may be part of the minority. I did not hate the starting blows,” said McILroy.
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“I thought that the player who played the best during the season should have had an advantage to come here, but the majority of people simply did not like the starting blows.
“But you could also say that if it was starting stroke accidents this week Scottie with a two -stroke advance was probably not enough for him to do this year and in advance that he has in the Fedexcup when entering this week.”
