Gary Williams points out what a lot of people are completely ‘missing’ about Scottie Scheffler right now 

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Scottie Scheffler is dominating the PGA Tour at the moment like no player has since Tiger Woods in his prime.

Scheffler won seven Tour events in the 2024 season and has four victories already this year, including the PGA Championship and the Open Championship.

He has distanced himself from the second-best player in the world, Rory McIlroy, and the gap is seemingly only growing.

The only criticism of the 29-year-old is his personality, which golf expert Gary Williams completely disagrees with.

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Gary Williams says what people are missing about Scottie Scheffler’s greatness

Scheffler won The Open at Royal Portrush so comfortably that there was almost no jeopardy on the back nine on Sunday.

He won by four strokes over potential United States Ryder Cup teammate Harris English, and it even looked like he had another gear if necessary.

The absence of drama led many spectators to label both Scheffler and the tournament boring.

Williams thinks that is missing the point. He said, “Scottie Scheffler is in a stretch of golf that you don’t see very much.

“It gets to something that is interesting, whether you think the person doing it is interesting themselves. That’s what a lot of people are missing altogether when it comes to this guy.

“So if Scottie Scheffler says or does anything that might or might not be interesting when the event is over, who cares? He is doing things in golf that only one other person [Tiger Woods] has done.

“And that is, get so far ahead of the competition that he would have to take months, and maybe the next year off, for them to catch up in terms of the quantitative data to prove that they are catching up.”

Gary Williams compares Scottie Scheffler to Michael Jordan

McIlroy described Scheffler as “inevitable” before the final round at The Open, and now Williams is saying the same thing.

He compared the world number one to Michael Jordan in the 1990s because he is so consistently excellent on the biggest stages.

“So what if you see somebody start to do things that can’t be matched by their opponent,” Williams added.

“You start to use a word that is maybe the most powerful word in sports: inevitable.

“Michael [Jordan] seemed inevitable. In the decade of the 90s, every single time he went on the court, because he didn’t take nights off, he was going to be better than anybody on the other side of the court.”