{"id":817053,"date":"2026-08-17T23:34:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817053\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:34:32","slug":"what-scottie-scheffler-has-done-on-the-pga-tour-this-year-which-even-tiger-woods-was-never-capable-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/817053\/","title":{"rendered":"What Scottie Scheffler has done on the PGA Tour this year which even Tiger Woods was never capable of"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Scottie Scheffler\u2019s form over the past four years has been the closest thing we\u2019ve seen to sheer and utter dominance since Tiger Woods\u2019 prime years.<\/p>\n

Since February 2022, Scheffler has won 21 PGA Tour titles, including four major championships.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s obviously still a long way behind the records set by Woods, but he\u2019s undoubtedly on the right trajectory to at least get close to matching the great man\u2019s achievements.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler<\/a> is head and shoulders above his rivals right now, much like Tiger Woods<\/a> was in his pomp.<\/p>\n

\"ScottiePhoto by Mike Ehrmann\/Getty Images,<\/p>\n

Scheffler became the third-youngest player to reach 21 PGA Tour wins<\/a> on Sunday at TPC Southwind.<\/p>\n

Woods was the youngest to reach 21 victories after his Open Championship triumph in 2000 when he was just 24.<\/p>\n

However, Scheffler does have Woods beat in one particular department.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler achieves what Tiger Woods was never capable of<\/p>\n

Golf journalist Ryan Lavner argued that Scheffler has been a more complete player in 2026 than Woods was during some of his very best years on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n

While speaking on The Golf Channel Podcast with Rex and Lav<\/a>, he highlighted how the 30-year-old world number one has been elite in all four of the key statistical categories this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey mentioned the broadcast that this was the best statistical season of Scottie Scheffler\u2019s career. That is not true,\u201c Lavner explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is the most well-rounded, the most complete season of Scottie Scheffler\u2019s career, and it actually appears right now, as we sit here with two events remaining of the PGA Tour\u2019s regular season, that he is going to finish inside the top 10 in all four major strokes gained statistical categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s off the tee that\u2019s approaching the green, that\u2019s around the green, and putting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd strokes gained data has only been around since 2003, 2004.<\/p>\n

\"TigerPhoto by David Cannon\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we don\u2019t have Tiger\u2019s 2000 season to compare, in which you could probably make a strong case that he was in the top 10 in all four categories there.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut in this strokes gained era, we have never seen this before, where Scottie is among the top 10 in all four categories.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re thinking, oh, what about Tiger in \u201905? Tiger \u201906, Tiger in \u201907, and Tiger \u201909?<\/p>\n

\u201cTiger in 2012, 2013, and 2019?<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was statistically awesome.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was statistically dominant in those years, but even in those great years, and they were historic years, for Tiger Woods, some of the best golf he\u2019s ever played in \u201906 and \u201907. There was still at least one part of his game that statistically was not among the top 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome years, it was his driver, some years it was around the green.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always think of Tiger having like this flair for the dramatic and the hole-outs and the chip-ins and the bunker shots, and just the great hands he had. Obviously, all of that was very, very memorable.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a statistical standpoint, there was still some years in which he was outside the top 10.<\/p>\n

Scottie Scheffler\u2019s most complete season of all time<\/p>\n

While Scheffler doesn\u2019t have the amount of wins to his name this year that he had in 2024 and 2025, the consistency of his all-round game has definitely improved.<\/p>\n

And Lavner highlighted exactly that.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, results-wise, this has been a frustrating and annoying season for Scottie Scheffler, at least compared to what we have seen since 2022,\u201c he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the completeness of his game, the all-round nature of it, where he has so many different levers that he can pull if one part of his game is off.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never seen Scottie like this before.\u201c<\/p>\n

Scheffler\u2019s second win of the 2026 PGA Tour season was only a matter of time.<\/p>\n

Now that he finally got over the line in Memphis, it should surprise nobody if he finishes off the season with two more victories.<\/p>\n

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