Jason Day points out the one big difference he’s noticed between Scottie Scheffler and Tiger Woods

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Jason Day knows better than most just how good Scottie Scheffler and Tiger Woods both are.

Day played alongside Woods on numerous occasions in his prime, and he has seen Scheffler at his peak first hand as well.

Back in 2024, Woods suggested that if Scheffler putts well he is almost guaranteed to win.

Praise like that from the 49-year-old does not come cheap. Woods has won 15 major championships and a record-equalling 82 PGA Tour titles throughout his career to date.

Scheffler is a long way off those numbers right now, with 16 PGA Tour wins and three majors to his name. However, he’s only 28, and will undoubtedly make real inroads into matching Woods’ achievements over the next decade or so.

There is no doubt that Scheffler is the dominant force in world golf right now.

But is he really as good as Woods was in his prime? Who better to ask than 2015 PGA champion Day?

Jason Day shares one big difference between Scottie Scheffler and Tiger Woods

Scheffler is making the game look far too easy right now, just like Woods did in his prime.

If the 28-year-old from Dallas is able to keep up his current form for another decade or so, he will be well within reach of Woods’ records.

Day was a guest on The Loop podcast, and it was put to him whether Scheffler really is the second coming of Woods.

The Australian said, “There’s a lot of pressure that comes with it, there’s a lot of stress. A lot of outside distractions that come with being number one in the world. To watch Scottie, the way he’s doing it, and he’s been dominant now for a few years. You just have to look how much money he’s earned on the golf course, which is like $86 million and that’s before FedEx. It’s unbelievable. With that being said, what’s impressive, obviously he’s winning every single year.

“The media, at the start of the year were like, ‘what’s going on, why isn’t he winning’. I said, ‘everyone needs to calm down, at some point he’s going to win’. And then this three-week stretch he had. He won the Byron, then he took a week off. Then he won the PGA Championship, then he finished well at Colonial, then he won at Memorial. What is happening with Scottie is that there is no slow down. The weeks he’s not winning, he’s still top-10, top-5 and that is very, very difficult to do because the amount of mental and physical stress that you put yourself under week in and week out, that will have a toll on you. And I don’t care who it is, sooner or later, you kind of start to break mentally, because you need time away from people to focus. He seems like he’s balanced. He seems like he knows exactly what he needs to do, week in and week out to prepare the best he can. He knows he needs to keep the media and fans at an arm’s distance just so he can actually focus on what he needs to do. So he’s handling it unbelievably well right now.

“Are we starting to see the second coming of one of the best players of all-time? I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but all I know now is that we’re looking at someone who’s putting up some of the craziest numbers since Tiger. I’ve been in both worlds – playing against Tiger and playing against Scottie. The difference between Tiger and Scottie is that Scottie is less theatrical on the golf course. Tiger was unbelievable to watch play golf. Tee to green, he was a little bit more erratic off the tee at times in his career, but that was the exciting part about Tiger, with the fist pumps and all that stuff. Whereas Scottie does very similar stuff, but he’s probably a little bit more consistent from tee to green, but he’s a toned-down version. He doesn’t really fist pump as much. I’m not knocking that at all. We’re seeing this type of trait in Scottie but it’s just a toned-down version. The way he looks when he wins, he’s just like, ‘yeh another win’.“

Scottie Scheffler vs Tiger Woods PGA Tour results

It seems unfair to compare any golfer to Woods.

However, Scheffler is someone who is more than worthy of that comparison.

Here are how their respective PGA Tour records stack up against each other:

Scheffler is clearly still a long way behind Woods, but if he is able to have real longevity in the game, there’s no reason why he can’t match the 15-time major winner.

As Day said, Scheffler may not be as theatrical as Woods, but the numbers he is putting up prove that he is just as good as the 49-year-old.

It will be fascinating to watch the man from Dallas, Texas, try to close the gap on Woods over the next 10-15 years.