Ben Griffin explains what Scottie Scheffler was doing on the greens at The Memorial which he was not, and it cost him

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Ben Griffin would be forgiven for feeling hard done by for not leaving The Memorial Tournament with a trophy given that Scottie Scheffler is playing on another level to anyone else on the planet right now.

Scottie Scheffler secured his third win in four starts at The Memorial Tournament this past week. The world number one took charge of the event with four birdies on his final five holes on Saturday to take a one-shot lead into the last round.

Had anyone else been top of the leaderboard, you would fancy Ben Griffin‘s chances of overturning that deficit given that he has won twice in recent weeks. However, it was always incredibly difficult to see Scheffler not winning at Muirfield Village.

And that proved to be exactly what happened. The 28-year-old made just one bogey over the final two rounds to win by four at Jack’s Place. He became the first player since Tiger Woods to retain his title.

Ben Griffin assesses Scottie Scheffler’s performance in the final round of The Memorial Tournament

It means that Scheffler has finished a total of 17 shots clear of his rivals across his last three wins. It is remarkable how he is making everything look so easy right now.

Interestingly, it appears that Griffin was not completely blown away by Scheffler after they played together in the final round. Speaking on The Smylie Show, the 29-year-old noted how much of a battle Sunday seemed to be for Scheffler, particularly on and around the greens.

“Well in terms of my performance, I was pretty disappointed. I struggled with my putter that final round. After I missed the putt on 18, the third round, and going into the final round, I kept struggling on the right to lefters. Super weird, so that’s one thing I’m going to key in on this week is making all those. The left to righters I’m hitting great putts, which is weird for a righty. I was pretty disappointed to not win or at least keep it really close,” he said.

“But yeah, he’s just so consistent. He got out of position, not out of position off the tee, but was out of position on the greens a few times, whether it was a bad lag putt or a bad chip, and he was grinding for pars a lot, and he pretty much made every single putt from eight feet and in and I did not. I missed three putts I think inside eight feet. And that cost me unfortunately. I could have easily stayed with him or been ahead of him, especially if I’d played the way I did the first round. But he’s tough to compete against on Sundays because you just know he’s not going to make mistakes, you know he’s not going to shoot over par. But I could have easily shot under par and kept up with him, I just ran out of steam.”

Why Ben Griffin may be being a little unfair on Scottie Scheffler after The Memorial

It appears that Scheffler’s statistics from the final round both agree and disagree with Griffin’s assessment of his performance.

Certainly, he did not have the best day with the putter. Scheffler lost more than half a stroke to the field with the flat stick in his hands.

However, his game around the green was nearly peerless. Scheffler was fourth in the field for strokes gained around the green on Sunday. So he definitely hit a number of outstanding shots onto the putting surface.

It is a big claim for Griffin to so nonchalantly suggest that he could have so easily stayed with Scheffler on another day.

Griffin has been exceptional lately. But there are arguably no words to describe Scheffler’s ability when he is at the top of his game.