{"id":713781,"date":"2026-07-27T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713781\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:26:09","slug":"scottie-scheffler-why-has-world-number-one-stopped-winning-tournaments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713781\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler: Why has world number one stopped winning tournaments?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If wins are the only currency, both Matt Fitzpatrick and Cameron Young have three on tour this season, while Wyndham Clark has a regular victory and a US Open.<\/p>\n

But a glance at the FedEx Cup’s season-long rankings reassert Scheffler’s dominance.<\/p>\n

Players are awarded points for where they finish in a tournament – and Scheffler has 795 more than Fitzpatrick in second.<\/p>\n

That is because even though he has not win since January, he has done everything but.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s second place at the 3M Open was his fifth runners-up finish – only the second golfer in 40 years to have at least five second places in a season on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

He has also finished third on two occasions, and in the top five 11 times across 17 starts in 2026. It is a body of work that dwarfs anything put together by his rivals.<\/p>\n

“I think I’ve been really close to winning some tournaments and that can be frustrating,” Scheffler said before the Scottish Open.<\/p>\n

“At the same time, I’ve had some good results – a fourth and a second are not bad results by any means. Margins in golf are really small and I just keep trying to do my best.”<\/p>\n

The lack of wins has not prevented him stretching his lead at the top of the Official World Golf rankings, external<\/a> either.<\/p>\n

In fact, the distance between him and second-placed Rory McIlroy is equivalent to between McIlroy and America’s Matt McCarty (in 67th).<\/p>\n

Scheffler has been world number one since 21 May 2023 – nearly 166 weeks. Woods’ unbroken record stands at 281 weeks, between June 2005 and October 2010.<\/p>\n

That intimidating record is still more than two years off for Scheffler, but current evidence suggests knocking him off top spot will be extraordinarily difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If wins are the only currency, both Matt Fitzpatrick and Cameron Young have three on tour this season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}