Scottie Scheffler is now producing golf that hasn’t been seen since Tiger Woods in his prime.
The form that Woods displayed in 2000 was on another level to what Scheffler is producing right now, but the 29-year-old is getting closer and closer with every week that passes.
In spite of that, one PGA Tour winner has claimed that the man from Dallas, Texas, is already better than the 15-time major champion.
Scheffler and Woods have been compared by members of the media and PGA Tour players.
Xander Schauffele suggested that Scheffler is producing golf similar to Woods in his heyday.
Most would agree that the four-time major champion isn’t quite at the levels Woods displayed 25 years ago.
However, one PGA Tour star thinks that Scheffler is, in fact, better than the great man.
Matt Wallace claims Scottie Scheffler is better than Tiger Woods
The current world number one is drawing huge acclaim right now from every single one of his competitors.
Brandel Chamblee has been speaking to Indo Sport, and he lifted the lid on something that Matt Wallace told him about Scheffler and Woods.
He said: “Another thing Matt Wallace said to me that kind of took me back. He said that he thought this was the greatest golf that had ever been played, including Tiger Woods.
“I made this point but not as emphatically as Matt Wallace made to me yesterday, that the difference trying to articulate between Tiger and Scottie was that Tiger always looked like he was doing the impossible.
“Because he was more powerful than Scottie but also vastly more wild, he was always having to navigate around obstacles and he could do it. He could bend the ball to his will. He could bend reality.
“He would make a tough shot look even tougher because he was swinging hard at it and he chased after it and had these flamboyant finishes.
“Scottie does not hit it in trouble nearly as much as Tiger does, and he doesn’t swing as hard as Tiger. His feet are going everywhere and he certainly can bend shots however he wants, but he just racks up great shot after great shot after great shot.
“You can’t really differentiate because he will be out in the fairway and have a four iron to a tight pin and he’ll hit it to 10 feet. You’ll think that’s a good shot but if you just take a 35,000 foot view at it and look at the last 50 players who hit it into the green, they average 60 feet and he is 10 feet.
“Then you think that was a really good shot and you go to the next hole and he has a six iron and hits it to five feet. You look at the last 60 players who hit it in there and they averaged 40 feet.
“He just racks that up time and time again. If you are playing professional golf right now and you dreamed of being the number one player in the world, you are going to have unfulfilled dreams. It’s not going to happen against Scottie Scheffler, not for a long period of time into the future.“
What Scottie Scheffler has to do for the next 15 years to match Tiger Woods
Scheffler has been sensational over the past 15 months or so.
However, he still has to go some in order to even get close to the numbers posted by Woods.
If the 29-year-old is to match Woods by the time he is 44, he will need to win 11 majors in the next 15 years.
He will also have to win 65 PGA Tour tournaments, or an average of just over four per year up until 2040.
It’s clear to see that Scheffler has his work cut out, if he is to ever catch and perhaps even surpass Woods’ trophy haul.
However, if he remains injury free and maintains his hunger to win, there is no reason why Scheffler won’t be able to go down in history as the greatest ever golfer to have graced the game.
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