Scottie Scheffler is the best golfer on the planet right now, and he has been for more than three years now.
Scheffler has dominated the game over the past four years like nobody else has since Tiger Woods in his heyday.
Scottie Scheffler has drawn comparisons with Tiger Woods as a result of his incredible win-rate since 2022.
What do you make of the planned changes to the PGA Tour?
What do you like? What concerns you about the changes?
While the 30-year-old world number one’s golf has been consistently brilliant for such a long period of time now, he still has an awfully long way to go before he can genuinely be compared to Woods.
However, there are so many similarities between the two players, including their exceptionally precise iron play.
It’s also worth noting that Scheffler is the only player who has even come close to matching Woods’ PGA Tour average scoring records.
And it seems as though the way that Scheffler goes about planning his schedule is very similar to how Tiger Woods went about things.
Scottie Scheffler makes comment on Tiger Woods
Scheffler addressed the media on Wednesday ahead of the start of the Travelers Championship on Thursday.
He responded when asked whether he is pleased at the prospect of a more condensed PGA Tour schedule.
“I think that’s why you see a guy like Tiger can only play so many events because I think mentally the challenge of just being in front of people for that long and what it takes to compete week in week out takes a lot out of you mentally,“ the world number one said.
“So for me playing more than three weeks in a row is extraordinarily difficult. I can’t handle much more than that.
“When you look at the season now I think it, for family time it’s great to have an off-season as well, just for us for me to be able to be at home with my family is important.“
Three tournaments in a row maximum for Scottie Scheffler
“Yeah, I think when you look at this sport it’s unique in a sense of like the amount of time we spend in front of people throughout a week,“ Scheffler said.
“Like for me to play four days of tournament golf, from the moment I step onto the driving range if we’re playing at a four hour pace that’s over five hours, five and a half hours if you include this part of my day, where we’re in front of people.
“And doing that four days in a row in a mental sport I think can take a toll on you.
“As far as the cadence goes, yeah, I definitely have a cadence that I prefer when it comes to scheduling and there are definitely risks cramming a bunch of tournaments into little windows just because it’s hard to play that many tournaments in a row.
“It’s hard to be on for that many times. It’s hard to get yelled at that many times in a row throughout a round of golf. It just is. That’s why for me three weeks in a row is kind of my max.“
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