Scottie Scheffler Is The Future of Golf

While Scottie is the future of golf, is he the next Tiger Woods?

Scottie Scheffler came onto the PGA Tour with his PGA Tour Card just four years ago, but, since that time, there has been complete upheaval in the tour, as he has gone on to win The Masters twice, become the first player to win the Player Championship two years in a row, and has held the title as world number one for 51 consecutive weeks. He has won over 82 million dollars in his relatively short professional career. It seems he wins every tournament or is a top-place finisher in all of them. His reign of dominance has not been seen since the likes of Tiger Woods, a comparison which begs the question: is Scottie the next Tiger?

Tiger Woods exists in a league of his own with stats incomparable to anyone else, including 82 tournaments won, 15 majors won, and 13 years at world number one. While Scottie cannot even compare to this career as of now, he is only 27 and is dominating the PGA Tour. However, he is not the next Tiger Woods. Scottie is only four years into his PGA Tour career with ten wins and two major wins, both at the Masters. Meanwhile, four years into his respective PGA career, Tiger had 22 wins and 5 major wins, completing the career grand slam, and he was three years younger than Scheffler. By the time Tiger was 27, he had 38 wins and 8 of them were majors.

Furthermore, beyond just wins, statistics prove that Tiger is simply a far better player. For example, one key statistic to look at is "true strokes gained," which is the "number of strokes you beat the field by in a given round," according to datagolf.com. In this statistic, Scheffler leads the PGA Tour averaging 3.23 "true strokes gained;" meanwhile, in Tigers hay day, he had four seasons with a better average of "true strokes gained," a statistic which shows that Woods was more dominant in his prime and early career compared to Scheffler.

Scottie Scheffler is the future of golf, and he is also the future of The PGA Tour. Numerous players from the PGA Tour sold out and joined LIV golf for stupendous salaries, such as John Rahm, Brook Koepka, Bubba Watson, Cameron Smith, Dustin Johnson, and Phil Mickelson. Although joining LIV would have made Scheffler absurd amounts of money, he remained steadfast in his commitment to the PGA tour due to his integrity. Scottie Scheffler is a unique man; even though he has made over 82 million dollars from prize money, he does not play golf for the money. Scottie Scheffler plays out of love and respect for the gentleman's game of golf and tries to preserve the true spirit of the sport.

Furthermore, Scheffler is deeply religious, and after winning his first Master's in 2022, he said, "All I'm trying to do is glorify God, and that's why I'm here, and that's why I'm in position. So, for me, it's not about a golf score."All in all, he remains a steadfast supporter of the PGA tour and he dramatically increases the PGA tour watch numbers - but he is not the next Tiger Woods.

Timmy Hale