{"id":82619,"date":"2025-08-20T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82619\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:29:10","slug":"scottie-scheffler-has-entered-tiger-territory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/82619\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler Has Entered ‘Tiger Territory’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every Tuesday, SI Golf will rank nine newsmakers from the golf world. Sometimes we’ll cast a wide net. Tell us what you think on the SI Golf X account<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1. Scottie Scheffler: Don\u2019t we do this every week? Well, kind of. The world No. 1 won his fifth title of the year<\/a> at the BMW Championship, despite entering the final round four strokes back. What makes this victory special? Scheffler is the first player since Tiger Woods in 2006 and \u201807 to win five or more events in consecutive seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

2. Robert MacIntyre: Golf is a funny game. The Scot played flawlessly during the first three days of the BMW Championship, but a final-round 73 came up two shots short of Scheffler. He was heated, saying, \u201cRight now, I want to go and smash up my golf clubs, to be honest with you.\u201d Every player loves to win, but those who really hate to lose are the ones to watch out for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

3. Jon Rahm: Think the PGA Tour\u2019s FedEx Cup playoff format needs an overhaul? Well, Rahm claimed the season-long individual LIV Golf league title<\/a>\u2014and $18 million\u2014despite not winning a tournament all year. Joaquin Niemann, meanwhile, won five times this year and finished second.\u00a0<\/p>\n

4. Rory McIlroy: Last Wednesday feels like an eternity ago, but in his pre-tournament presser at the BMW Championship, McIlroy raised eyebrows when he revealed he was offered a chance to be a playing captain for a future European Ryder Cup team, but turned it down because he didn\u2019t think he could do both roles simultaneously. Of course, Keegan Bradley is mulling over whether he should do that this year<\/a> for Team USA. And when Bradley was told about McIlroy\u2019s comments, he said, \u201c[McIlroy] might be right.\u201d<\/p>\n

5. Ben Griffin: The two-time Tour winner began the BMW\u2019s final round by playing his first three holes at 6 over. Why? He overdosed on a \u201csnowball\u201d of creatine<\/a>, causing tremors. He then chugged a bottle of water and went on to shoot 1 under for the round. <\/p>\n

6. Bryson DeChambeau: The 2025 U.S. Ryder Cup team will play the PGA Tour\u2019s Procore Championship as a tune-up for Bethpage. However, DeChambeau, who is expected to be Team USA\u2019s lone LIV player, will be barred from the tournament, as he\u2019s suspended by the PGA Tour. The two-time U.S. Open champion then told SI last week<\/a> in Indianapolis, \u201cIt\u2019s a scenario that\u2019s unfortunate, and I wish it was different, but LIV\u2019s willing to let me play.\u201d It\u2019s important to note, though, that if there was a LIV event that week, LIV would not let him play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a07. Niall Shiels-Donegan: Everybody loves a hometown hero, and at the U.S. Amateur at the Olympic Club, he created scenes out of a movie. The UNC Tar Heel, who grew up about an hour away from Olympic in Mill Valley (though he was born in Scotland), made it to the semifinals of the championship. His supporters from home crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to cheer him on. After the 20-year-old\u2019s Round of 16 and quarterfinal wins, the gallery jubilantly celebrated behind him in his post-round Golf Channel interview, making it difficult to hear (in a good way). The clips went viral, with the USGA tweeting<\/a>, \u201cThis has to be one of the greatest post-round interviews in U.S. Amateur history.\u201d Also, kudos to the man conducting the interviews, Brentley Romine, my fantasy baseball confidant.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

8. Mason Howell: The 18-year-old high school senior won the U.S. Amateur with a 7 and 6 victory, the most lopsided final match since DeChambeau\u2019s win in 2015. Howell is also the third youngest winner of the championship, surpassing Tiger Woods, and the first high schooler to win since Matt Fitzpatrick in 2013. Take a bow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

9. Akie Iwai: Whew, what a busy week in golf. Several names could still have made this list. But for the final spot, let\u2019s go with a wild card: Iwai. The 23-year-old claimed her first LPGA title at the Portland Classic, and earlier this year, her twin sister, Chisato, also won on tour. They are now the fourth set of sisters to have won on the LPGA. Through 21 LPGA tournaments this year, there has not been a repeat champion, so this might be the closest to that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Also considered (this is going to be a grand list): Sebastian Munoz<\/a>, Henrik Stenson, Anthony Kim<\/a>, Juli Inkster<\/a>, Rickie Fowler, Harry Hall<\/a>, Akshay Bhatia<\/a>, Michael Kim, Daniel Berger<\/a>, Joaquin Niemann, Gary Player<\/a>, Jackson Herrington, Jimmy Abdo, Keegan Bradley, Xander Schauffele\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dropped out from last week<\/a>: Justin Rose, Tommy Fleetwood, J.J. Spaun, Rickie Fowler, Megha Ganne, Sepp Straka, Jordan Spieth, Hudson Swafford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every Tuesday, SI Golf will rank nine newsmakers from the golf world. Sometimes we’ll cast a wide net.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-82619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}