Brad Dalke reveals the ‘awful’ trait Scottie Scheffler had as a junior golfer which very few people know about

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It is hard to imagine, after two years of total dominance, that Scottie Scheffler has ever done anything badly on the golf course.

Scottie Scheffler has won 15 times worldwide since the start of 2024. He is now just a US Open triumph away from completing the Career Grand Slam after winning both the PGA Championship and The Open Championship in 2025.

In fact, Scheffler became the first player since Tiger Woods in 2000 to lead the scoring averages in all four rounds during a single PGA Tour season this year.

It certainly seems that few saw the 29-year-old becoming one of the greatest golfers of all-time.

Brad Dalke says Scottie Scheffler had an awful trait as a junior golfer

Brad Dalke first played golf alongside Scheffler when he was six years of age. And they would continue to come up against each other for much of their junior golf careers.

And speaking on The Smylie Show, the Good Good star suggested the level he expected the world number one to reach when they were younger.

He did also highlight one significant problem Scheffler had when he was coming through the ranks.

“Scottie obviously was a fantastic player growing up. Great junior golfer. Would I say that I expected this out of him? No, not at all. I knew that he’d be on the PGA Tour one day and be out there playing,” he said.

“Especially with ping-pong matches [he was competitive]. With ping-pong matches, he gets fired up. He’s throwing paddles. He’s diving for balls left and right.

“That’s one thing that I don’t think the fans know about him, general golf fans. During the tournaments he has such a good demeanour now that he almost seems boring in a way just because, for the most part, he acts very good out there and just keeps going on with his mission.

“But a lot of people don’t realise, he used to have a terrible attitude in junior golf. Awful. And he used to be really, really bad. It hindered him a lot. It would make him fall apart and play very badly. He might start a round pretty well and have one bad hole and all of a sudden, he falls apart. And that’s the biggest key, because he’s always had the talent, but I think him finding a way to handle his emotions a lot better and really just stay a lot more even keel throughout the round – which I think Ted does a great job on helping him with that too – but I think that’s really what made him go from a really good player to making a Tiger-esque run.”

The moment in Scottie Scheffler’s historic 2024 season where he could keep his cool

There have not been many occasions when Scheffler has clearly lost his temper on a PGA Tour.

Perhaps the most famous example came during the 2024 BMW Championship when Scheffler seemingly could not deal with the altitude change at Castle Pines.

Few will forget the incident which left Scheffler aggressively shouting at Ted Scott after watching one approach shot go over the back of the green.

Scheffler’s ability to stay focused on the task at hand is arguably his greatest strength. Speaking this past week, Ricky Castillo noted how much he learned playing alongside Scheffler earlier this year.

Castillo said he realised that he could not beat himself up and play good golf after that experience.

It turns out that having that attitude has not always come easy to Scheffler.