Scottie Scheffler’s coach identifies the one area of his game which has improved so much over the last three years

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Scottie Scheffler is far and away the best player in the game right now.

In fact, Scheffler has been head and shoulders above everyone else over the past three years since he won his first major championship at The Masters in 2022.

Scheffler has recorded 12 consecutive top-8 finishes on the PGA Tour and it would actually be a big shock if he didn’t end the month with 14 in a row.

The 29-year-old has four PGA Tour wins to his name this season, including two major championship victories.

Scheffler has been playing the best golf we have seen in a very long time, perhaps since Tiger Woods’ heyday.

The scary thing for the Texan’s rivals is that he seems to be getting better and better with every year that passes.

Scottie Scheffler’s coach identifies part of his game which has improved

Scheffler has worked with his coach Randy Smith since 2003 when he was just seven!

Smith knows Scheffler’s swing and game as a whole better than anyone else, so the information that he offers about the world number one is always extremely insightful.

It was only last month when Smith suggested that Scheffler is a better player now than he was in 2025, despite the fact that he hasn’t won as many times this year as he did in 2024.

And when speaking on Mark Immelman’s YouTube channel, Smith highlighted one big improvement the Dallas native has made over the past few years, aside from his putting!

“I think what we do too many times as regular players, because they are used to getting on the driving range, putting the sticks down, there is the target, perfect stance, perfect alignment and hit shots at the target and hope like hell it goes there.

“There is not much creation inside their shot. They just swing and hope basically that it goes straight. When it starts going straight on the range, therefore I am doing great, but you go on the golf course and it never happens. The lies change, it’s uphill, downhill. Things like that. You don’t get that same opportunity.

“What Scottie does, I think a great job of, and he’s already done a great job at this but he’s gotten so much better over the last two or three years is that he dissects everything.

“Scottie is reading the green from 185 yards out. The pin is sitting in a position back left and there is a slope on the left side, there is a bank there. He can go up against it, all he wants to. He is going to be more aggressive to that pin because he has a bail out on the left that is going to help him, because he sees the break.

“Now playing links style golf courses, he has this ability to see from the fairway – sure you have played a practice round – but you have your hands full with this shot off a side hill lie! And you can see him when he’s looking into the centre of the green, he is reading it just like a putt. He is reading it like a 30 foot putt. The green is doing this, this will give me this, that is where the ball goes and this is the distance that I want to hit this shot.

“Now the distance I need to come in if I am coming in here is certainly not a full one of those, so Ted give me the next one we’ll hit a cut in there, ride the slope and work it over to the pin.

“The beauty of it is that when he hits the baby chip cut he has six to eight yards in there that he can play with, plus he knows that it’s going to come out 10 yards short of his normal shot anyway. He sees the window that it comes in, he sees the height that it comes in.“

Scottie Scheffler’s stats: 2023 vs 2024 vs 2025

Scheffler has somehow managed to get even better every year over the past few years.

Here is how his stats from the last three seasons match up:

To make marginal gains year on year when you are as good as Scheffler is at playing golf is quite something.

If he continues to do just that in 2026 and 2027, we could be about to witness a period of dominance that we haven’t seen for quite some time.

Scheffler is obviously the best golfer on the planet right now and the fact that he keeps improving must be extremely disheartening for his rivals.