It does not happen too often anymore but Scottie Scheffler has achieved a career first already this season, with the world number one’s victory at The American Express being his first PGA Tour win in January.
Scottie Scheffler won on his first start of the year at La Quinta, finishing four shots clear of a number of players.
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While tougher challenges may lie ahead, Scheffler’s win at The American Express felt significant. The 29-year-old was forced into a slow start in 2025 after sustaining a hand injury over Christmas.
That did not stop him winning two majors over the season. And thus, it is no surprise that Johnson Wagner believes that Scheffler has made a real statement at the start of 2026.
Johnson Wagner thinks Scottie Scheffler’s best is yet to come
It took several months for Scheffler to get up to speed last season. He somehow finished fourth at The Masters while looking incredibly rusty by his standards.
There appears to be none of that same scratchiness this time around. He has already opened his account on the PGA Tour for the season.
And speaking to CBS Sports, Wagner admitted that he fully expects Scheffler to reach brand new heights over the course of the campaign.
“I think he’s probably one of the most complete players we’ve seen in a long time. And what you notice about Scottie over the last year or so with all these wins, really since May at the Byron Nelson, he’s starting to win golf tournaments by an incredible margin. How many events he’s won by four plus strokes in the last six, seven months is absolutely ridiculous,” he said.
“I think it’s scary if you’re a player on the PGA Tour right now, seeing the way Scottie’s just starting to dominate stuff. And then when you listen to him talk about how he prepared in the off-season, he’s trying to do things in the gym to make his longevity a little better, to make his body react better and be more consistent over the time. He’s getting old now, he’s going to turn 30 this summer, so he’s already looking into his late 30s.
“I think we’re in for a stretch, and I honestly believe the best of Scottie Scheffler is yet to come. I know that’s crazy to say coming off four straight Player of the Years, but I truly believe that we may be about to witness Scottie’s best year yet, which I ultimately believe will end with a Career Grand Slam on his 30th birthday at Shinnecock.”
The mind-blowing statistic that proves Scheffler’s greatness
It is bizarre to think back to how Scheffler was viewed when he was picked for the 2021 Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits. At that stage, he had not won on the PGA Tour.
Within the next 12 months, he had got off the mark. It would also be during that period that Scheffler would miss the cut in a PGA Tour event for the last time.
Wagner went on to suggest that he cannot quite believe that the four-time major champion now has more victories than missed cuts.
“On that same note about the missed cuts, so Scottie Scheffler in his career now, 152 PGA Tour events, he’s missed 19 cuts, he’s got 20 wins. There aren’t many people in professional golf history that have more wins than missed cuts. And I absolutely think that this is a mind-blowing stat,” he added.
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The world number one already has four majors under his belt
Obviously, made cuts statistics are not quite as impactful as they used to be. Most of the signature events do not have cuts at the halfway stage.
But Scheffler does make sure to tee it up at a number of full-field events each year. He also has more wins than missed cuts in the majors, which is arguably even more impressive than Wagner’s claim.
Ultimately, it says everything about Scheffler that there are so many statistics that can be used to confirm beyond any doubt that we are looking at an all-time great.
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