{"id":34030,"date":"2025-07-30T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34030\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:24:09","slug":"major-champion-explains-key-difference-between-scottie-scheffler-and-tiger-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/34030\/","title":{"rendered":"Major champion explains key difference between Scottie Scheffler and Tiger Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiple major champion Padraig Harrington says there’s a ‘completely different vibe’ between Scottie Scheffler<\/a> and Tiger Woods.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Woods <\/a>dominated the sport for more than a decade in his pomp and Scheffler, 29, is threatening to do the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His Open Championship win two weeks ago at Royal Portrush<\/a> was his fourth major victory since his breakout 2022 season and now he’s only one leg away from completing the career grand slam.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harrington offered his thoughts on Scheffler’s brilliance in the most recent edition of the Sky Sports Golf podcast with Jamie Weir.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The three-time major champ, who won the Senior Open last week at Sunningdale, believes there is a key difference between golf legend Woods and Scheffler.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Scottie Scheffler<\/p>\n

“With Tiger, every single person when you came up against Tiger, you walked away feeling like, I can’t do that,” Harrington said<\/a>. “With Scottie, every single player looks and goes, why can’t I do that? It’s a different vibe.<\/p>\n

“With Scottie, it’s just relentless at being himself and doing his thing. Just relentless at it. It’s startling how good, and it’s a lesson for everybody, just how good you can be if you just focus on what you’re doing and do your thing and keep it very simple.<\/p>\n

“I would suggest I probably have more swing thoughts on my practise session in one day than he has had in his lifetime. He sticks to the one thing and it’s really good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Right now, he’s unbeatable in what he’s doing and how long he can sustain it is the thing, but it looks pretty simple.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps the only person can truly stop Scheffler is himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The golfer explained before The Open that despite being extremely grateful for living out his dreams, winning majors and PGA Tour<\/a> titles doesn’t fulfil the deepest desires of his heart.<\/p>\n

“There’s more to life than playing golf,” Scheffler told reporters in his winning news conference.<\/p>\n

Harrington doesn’t believe Scheffler’s comments necessarily stack up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He loves playing with his club mates and friends when he’s at home,” Harrington said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I think the comments don’t add up to him personally in terms of he seems to really like playing golf.<\/p>\n

“Back in the day, Monty was probably the best ball striker, the best player in Europe. Monty<\/a> didn’t touch a club away from the tournament, didn’t do any practise whatsoever, turned up late for the tournament, did no practise at the tournament and played.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Tiger practised mad away from the tournaments, did nothing at the tournament.<\/p>\n

“Scottie seems to play a lot away, so he does seem to really enjoy it. That would be the only thing what’s coming down the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“If you looked at those words, that would be worrying, but actually, if you looked at the person, I actually think he does enjoy his golf and enjoy everything going on and that would lead to a sustainable career.<\/p>\n

“If he keeps up like this for 10 years, we’re not just talking about Tiger, we’re talking about Jack’s record.”<\/p>\n

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