Scottie Scheffler reminded the golf world why he is the number one ranked player in the world on Sunday. Scheffler won the 2025 PGA Championship by five strokes over several golfers, leaving little drama.
It was his third major championship of his relatively young career. Scheffler had previously won the Masters twice (2022, 2024).
A day after his victory at Quail Hollow, the PGA Tour dropped a video on X, formerly Twitter. The nearly two-minute video primarily features Tiger Woods explaining Scheffler’s greatness.
Even Tiger Woods can’t deny Scottie Scheffler’s elite ball-striking 👏 pic.twitter.com/FJo6FQz0Fu
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 19, 2025
“We see shots into the greens very similar. How we miss golf balls in the correct spots,” Woods said. “It’s not always pretty, but it is not about the here and now. It’s playing the long game, over 72 holes. It’s not a sprint. It is over a marathon.”
“I think that’s the similarity between how we play the game,” said the 15-time major champion.
After summing about what he believed to be similarities between the two golfers, Woods then detailed what is different between their games.
“I did it differently. My game was very violent at times… He slid on it, I snapped on it.”
Fellow major champions Collin Morikawa and Matt Fitzpatrick then talk about Scheffler’s ball-striking, explaining how ludicrous it is that he consistently hits the ball as well as he does.
Scheffler is by far the greatest ball striker of this era and pretty much since prime Tiger Woods nearly 20 years.
Then Woods got down to it, explaining what sets Scheffler apart from the rest.
“Forget all of the footwork stuff,” Tiger said referencing Scottie’s inexplicable moving feet.
“If you just sat behind him and you only look at the golf ball, and how tight it is. He doesn’t move the ball very much either way. If you understand the fact that he hits in these tight windows and he shapes in varying degrees, you can understand why he’s able to control distance into the greens as well as he does.”
At the PGA Championship, Scottie Scheffler led the field in strokes gained tee-to-green, and was top 10 on approach, around-the-green, and off-the-tee, per DataGolf.
The rest of the field never had a chance.
With his win, Scheffler joined Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win multiple Masters, multiple PLAYERS and a PGA Championship.
He is only 28 years old. So, there is a lot more where this came from.
