The rise of Scottie Scheffler of the generation at all time continues tirelessly after the victory of the PGA championship
Charlotte – Greatness is not always alike. He is often a foreign and can develop differently from what you expect. We can even question when the effort does not regularly bear the expected fruits. It is an implacable path for an individual to make, and it is a Scottie Scheffler has been lighting up for three years, the bases placed during a working life.
Scheffler’s wake did not lie until Sunday at the Quail Hollow Club where he won the PGA 2025 championship, marking his third big victory and first to move away from the friendly limits of Augusta National.
Scheffler has become the third player since the Second World War to win 15 PGA Tour events and three major championships before the age of 29. He joins the company of two men whose names you know well, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, and it is quite possible that these three are mentioned in the same breath over the next decade.
Only 3 years and 94 days since his first PGA Tour victory in the Arizona desert, Scheffler won his 15th, marking the third period of the third largest for a player to reach such a brand. Nicklaus and Woods only beat him by a few months.
Scheffler’s three major triumphs came with a margin of more than 3 shots making him the sixth man in history to reach this brand and first since 1983, when Seve Ballesteros won his second of the two green jackets. Only two men have more in their careers (yes, Jack and Tiger). Scheffler won by five Sunday converting an advance of 54 holes in victory for the sixth consecutive time; He improved at 10 for 16 in his career PGA Tour.
Boy, if it doesn’t look like someone else.
“Winning is very fun, and I think that winning as often as possible is very fun,” said Scheffler with the Wanamaker trophy by his side. “Each week, you play in a tournament, and you want to try to give you a chance to win. When I got on the TEA on Thursday, I don’t think about what will happen on Sunday. I am preparing for a 72-hole event. It’s a lot of time. It’s a lot of T-shirts. It’s a lot of leaves.
“I always focus on my preparation, and therefore when I present myself on the 1st tee, I just tell myself to stay patient, to remember that I am ready for that and to go out and to compete.”
Although similar on paper – Build a profile at all levels of the junior golf course in the phase of the major championship – the Scheffler path may not be as doubled with trees as those of Nicklaus and Woods. The way he works comes with a unique rhythm. You saw how his feet move.
The objectives are not expressed because it really has no tangible to share. He does not have his eyes on the battery of the main record of Jack or the victory of a certain time or the collection of a desired sum of money. He does not care about what his peers do around him, the noise that this can stir and where he is in the annals of professional golf.
There is Golf Scottie, which focuses on the process and preparation, and there is no Golf Scottie, which focuses on faith, family and friends. This dismissal of the mind was its greatest superpower; It creates a balance inside the strings and an identity (where it really counts) outside.
“I don’t focus on [big career goals]”Said Scheffler.” I love coming here and trying to compete and win golf tournaments, and that’s what I am focusing on. After this week, I’m going to go home and prepare for the tournament next week, and the show continues. If I introduce myself and I miss the cup next week, I will have to answer the questions of what was wrong and start again on Thursday.
“This is one of the things that can be frustrating about our game, and it is also what is great in our game. If I had a difficult day today and I came with a loss, I could get back on the TEE on Thursday next week and have another chance of winning a tournament. It is an endless pursuit, and it’s a lot of fun.”
Registered about his counterparts and has only focused on the purest form of the competition, Scheffler actually shouts “on your left” while he zoomed out near them. Comparisons are no longer sufficient with the active club of two adults: Bryson Dechambeau, Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa, Justin Thomas and Xander Schauffele. There are fewer and fewer correlations these days to his compatriot Texan, Jordan Spieth.
Scheffler is no longer a generational talent; He is about to become a stopwatch.
Scheffler has been at the top of the world for 105 consecutive weeks, the third longer period of Tiger (twice). He saw challengers fall on the edge of the road, similar to the way this PGA championship finally took place.
The show of three men of Scheffler, Dechambeau and Rory McILroy Rendered in Queen City rented like the only players who could realistically hoist the Wanamaker.
McILroy never left the bus despite the quail hollow winner. Dechambeau did his usual thing. By holding the captive fans at a given time on Saturday, the big golfer made a big row while he pumped the crowd with solo lead in one hand and a prolonged palm in the other to satisfy his enraged base.
Scheffler has never noticed. On the other side of the pond, only a few holes behind, he hit gold. An eagle landed and sank the chances of Dechambeau as a section of five holes played up to 5 below the end of the third round gave the world number 1 the first place in the ranking before Sunday.
For the same way as the first 49 holes of this golf tournament not to go too far behind – it was clear that Scheffler was without his best things that entered the weekend – these last five holes in the third round were all to get ahead.
“It was a long week. I felt like it was as difficult as I fought for a tournament in my career,” said Scheffler. “It was a fairly difficult week. The first two days, I did not throw it as best I can, and I was able to post a score, in a way. Apart from the last five holes [Saturday]This is where I really put myself forward in the tournament.
“I mean, the nine rear [Sunday] It was quite special too. But [Saturday] The way I finished this tour, I think it was really important for me to have an advance with which to play. I played with a little more than I would have liked it. I think that at some point in the tournament, I was tied for the head on the nine rear, but I intervened when we needed it, and it was a fairly special week. “”
It could be said Sunday afternoon that Scheffler had not maintained the form he had flashed on Saturday evening. Fighting a case of the left of the T -shirt – Without an excuse despite the use of a backup driver – He tripped the blocks and left more than one competitor in the fray. The door was opened and Scheffler rushed when his night edge was wiped out when he reached the nine rear.
A slight change and a rapid conversation is everything it took. The half-tour adjustments are so underestimated. These post-round sessions beating fundamentals in his brain tend to be useful when needed, and they were on Sunday. By ensuring the advice of his shopping cart, Ted Scott, Scheffler changed his alignment very slightly on the 10th tee and did not miss an upcoming shot.
Jon Rahm held a share of the advance for 13 minutes and not one more second. Scheffler immediately responded with a Birdie to claim first place for himself, where he was held with little objection in the last three years.
“I love the pursuit of trying to understand something,” said Scheffler. “This is what I like in this game. I have the impression that you are still fighting, and you always try to understand things, and you never perfection it. I can sometimes be a crazy person when it comes to putting my mind. In golf, there is always something you can understand.
How long Scheffler remains on this path will finally decide if the company he now shares has merit. We have seen three -year windows making careers before – think of Spieth, Jason Day and Padraig Harrington, among others – and it is only those who remain the power that remain THE conversation.
This elevation is distinct, and it looks like no other before. The game of Scheffler is not strewn with a prodigious length or a huge flash, just a dam of good times at the right time – again and again.
It’s just Scottie Scheffler, and it’s just his version of grandeur.
