PGA Tour winner admits he’s starting to question how he can even beat Scottie Scheffler as he dominates The Open

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If you’re a player on the PGA Tour right now, it must be borderline annoying to keep coming up against Scottie Scheffler.

Scheffler dominated The Open at Royal Portrush to win by four shots in the end and make it two majors for the year and four overall.

Since getting back into the groove following injury earlier in 2025, Scheffler has looked unstoppable at times and this is now two majors from the last three where he’s simply ran away with it.

Scheffler is getting to the point of being like Tiger Woods, such is his dominance.

However, what is even more worrying for the rest of the field is that Scheffler’s brilliance seems to now be playing on the mind of those trying to beat him.

Indeed, according to Harris English, that is exactly what is happening.

Harris English claims Scottie Scheffler might be unbeatable

Harris English went out of his way to praise Scheffler after round three and to be fair to the American, finishing at -13 in The Open would have been enough to win it on so many occasions.

Alas, it was his good friend Scheffler in the way once more and according to English, the world number one is getting to a point of being impossible to beat.

“Yeah, it’s incredible. I wasn’t playing professional golf when Tiger was at his peak, early 2000s, mid 2000s. But it’s pretty incredible. Just how good of a frontrunner he is. He’s improved his putting. There’s no stat that he’s bad in. It’s like, how do you beat this guy,” Harris told the media.

“But he works so hard, and I see him in the gym all the time, see him practising. He’s one of the hardest workers I see I’ve ever seen, and to have No. 1 in the world working that hard, it just makes it that much harder to catch him. What he’s doing right now is incredible.

“You try and stay with your own game, stay with your strategy and do the best you can do and hope he falters and comes back to the field. It’s not like I’m going to go out there and hit driver every single hole and go at every pin and try to shoot 10-under. I’ve got to pick my spots to be aggressive and just play my own game because there’s a lot of World Ranking points, there’s a lot of FedEx Cup points to play for, and I’m just trying to do the best I can with the strategy at hand and what I’m faced with on that hole.”

Asked if seeing Scheffler out in front and playing so well affects his own mentality when it comes to winning, English admitted that it very much plays on the mind.

“Yeah, you can’t say — not saying I can’t win. It’s like I’ve got to go shoot 8- or 9-under today and play probably the best round of my life to be able to catch him. It’s just amazing to see. The show he’s putting on, the consistency he has is unbelievable.”

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How Scottie Scheffler has reacted to being compared to Tiger Woods

The comparisons with Tiger Woods are obvious and right now, Scheffler is going to have to deal with these questions.

However, in typical Scheffler fashion, he was having none of it.

Asked how he feels about being compared to Tiger, Scheffler said that Woods is in a league of his own.

“I still think they’re a bit silly. Tiger won, what, 15 majors? This is my fourth. I just got one-fourth of the way there. I think Tiger stands alone in the game of golf. He was inspirational for me growing up. He was a very, very talented guy, and he was a special person to be able to be as good as he was at the game of golf,” Scheffler told the waiting media.

“I don’t focus on that kind of stuff. That’s not what motivates me. I’m not motivated by winning championships. I don’t look at the beginning of the year and just say, hey, I want to win X amount of tournaments, I want to win whatever it is. I don’t do that. I have dreams and aspirations that I think about, but at the end of the day, when I wake up to practice, I feel like what motivates me is just getting out and getting to live out my dream. I get to play professional golf, and I feel like I’m called to do it to the best of my ability.

“When I wake up in the morning, I try and put max effort in each day I get to go out and practice. When I’m working out, when I’m doing the cold tub, doing recovery, I feel like I’m just called to do it to the best of my ability. Outside of that, I don’t place much emphasis on winning tournaments. I don’t place much emphasis on things that I can accomplish. It’s just mostly about putting in the proper work and coming out here and competing.“

As always, it is a reserved and well mannered reply from the world’s best player.

Indeed, while his on-course game is brilliant, it is this sort of attitude and response to praise that keeps him so grounded and ultimately, helps him win.