Scottie Scheffler is very much the number one golfer in the world right now and NBC analyst Johnson Wagner has said it’s just unfair how good certain aspects of his game are.
Scheffler is in action at the Charles Schwab Challenge this week as he looks to bounce back from a disappointing final round at Valhalla last week.
As we know, Scheffler’s progress in the PGA was disrupted thanks to his arrest and then subsequent release hours before the second round.
Luckily, Scheffler does seem to have found his form again over round two and three at Colonial.
Scheffler is among a pack of players chasing Davis Riley at the top. And speaking about Scheffler’s game, the popular analyst Johnson Wagner has praised the American.
Johnson Wagner believes something just isn’t fair about Scottie Scheffler right now
Speaking about Scheffler on the NBC show Golf Central, Wagner lauded the world number one and insisted ‘it’s not fair’ how good he is.
“He just makes these somewhat easy, medium difficulty shots look benign in the most high pressure situations. Even the up and down on Augusta at 18. Granted he had a big lead, hit the shot out of the fairway bunker short right and he chipped it up there to this [around one foot],” Wagner said.
“It’s not fair to be that good of a ball striker and have that good of a short game and then the only thing the golf gods are not doing is making him the best putter in the world.”
“He just has a knack for finding the hole. As we see him progress with this mallet putter as well, we see him with those five and six footers for par to just keep the round going.”
Scheffler will win again in 2024 with ease
At the time of writing, Scheffler is still seven shots back of Davis Riley at Colonial but that does not mean he should be counted out going into tomorrow’s final round.
Indeed, Scheffler could easily claw that back and if he manages to get to within three or four, Riley will feel the world number one on his back.
However, if it’s not to be this weekend, then rest assured, Scottie Scheffler will win again in 2024 and probably more than once.
Before the PGA, he’d won four of his last five starts and that sort of quality doesn’t simply go away.
In fact, it wouldn’t be a shock to see Scheffler march into the US Open and take the win.
As Wagner says in his piece here, sometimes it feels like it’s just not fair how good Scheffler is.
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