Any doubts over Scottie Scheffler being the best player golf has seen since Tiger Woods have surely been put to bed after a 2025 season in which the world number one won six times, including two major titles.
Scottie Scheffler is now just a US Open victory away from completing the Career Grand Slam after winning the PGA Championship and The Open Championship in the last 12 months.
It was certainly a stunning sequel to 2024, particularly with Scheffler missing the first few events of this year with a hand injury.
It is difficult to not draw comparisons between Scheffler and Tiger Woods. The 29-year-old is the most dominant player the game has had since Woods was at the peak of his powers.
Of course, Woods held all four major titles at one time, with three of those victories coming in 2000.
Brandel Chamblee believes that the 2000 version of Woods would beat Scheffler in a four-day tournament. But clearly, there is no one who has come closer to reaching his level.
With that, here is a look at some of Scheffler’s statistics from this season in comparison with what Woods did 25 years ago.
How Tiger Woods in 2000 compares with Scottie Scheffler this season
Driving
Obviously, equipment has changed dramatically since 2000. Woods was the second-longest hitter on the PGA Tour, averaging 298 yards – as reported by Golf Monthly.
Scheffler, on the other hand, is 44th on tour for driving distance in 2025, averaging 308.3 yards.
Woods does have the upper hand when it comes to accuracy off the tee, however. And it is not particularly close.
Approach play
Like off the tee, Scheffler is first for strokes gained with his approach play this year. He is eighth, however, for green in regulation percentage, at 71.39 percent.
Woods hit the green in regulation more than three-quarters of the time – a phenomenal achievement when you consider that he was often leaving himself with slightly further into the green.
Scrambling
Scheffler has the edge over Woods when it comes to scrambling. It is arguably an underrated part of the four-time major champion’s game.
He is second on the PGA Tour for scrambling. Woods was third in 2000, as he got up and down 67 percent of the time.
Putting
Putts per round can be a highly misleading statistic. Scheffler actually took fewer putts per green in 2024 than Woods in 2000. But of course, Scheffler was an average putter on the PGA Tour last year.
That has changed in 2025. He is inside the top 20 for strokes gained on the greens. And he now averages 1.693 putts per hole. Woods was slightly further back, at 1.717 putts per green.
Scoring average
Woods does have the edge when it comes to scoring average, with the 49-year-old taking below 68 strokes per round in the first season of the new millennium.
| Tiger Woods (2000) | Scottie Scheffler (2025) | |
| Driving distance | 298 yards | 308.3 yards |
| Driving accuracy | 71.2% | 63.04% |
| Greens in regulation | 75.15% | 71.39% |
| Scrambling | 67% | 68.69% |
| Putts per green | 1.717 | 1.693 |
| Scoring average | 67.794 | 68.131 (adjusted) |
And of course, Woods did win the final three majors of the 2000 season – completing the Career Grand Slam in the process.
So while some of the statistics would give the edge to Scheffler, Woods would have every right to point to the success he enjoyed 25 years ago and suggest that the current superstar of the game is not quite at that same level – yet.
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