While The Tour Championship proved to be slightly anticlimactic on the drama scale, it was fitting that Scottie Scheffler was the man winning the season finale at East Lake after essentially shutting the door on his rivals before the turn on Sunday.
Scottie Scheffler produced an outstanding performance at The Tour Championship to win by four over Collin Morikawa to win his first FedEx Cup title. Of course, it was the world number one’s eighth victory of what has been a truly remarkable year.
It has felt as if the 28-year-old has made history almost every time he has put a tee in the ground, with Scheffler earning $12,000 per shot he has hit throughout the year. He became the first player since Arnold Palmer in 1962 to win six times before the end of June.
Adam Scott compared Scheffler’s year with something Tiger Woods would do at his peak – and that appears to be the one question which remains when it comes to Scheffler: can he sustain this dominance over a much longer period?
Scottie Scheffler facing ‘insane’ challenge after incredible 2024
Speaking on The Smylie Show, Smylie Kaufman suggested that Scheffler’s season has been one of the greatest in recent history, and with that, he is going to really struggle to get close to replicating it again.
“We’re talking about an all-time year, Scottie Scheffler just tied the knot on a year that I think we will always refer back to over the next couple of decades, talking about Scottie Scheffler in 2024 – that’s how good it was. I don’t think we’re going to see anything like this for quite some time, I don’t think even Scottie’s going to be able to potentially repeat what he was able to do this year,” he said.
“Maybe he will, but it will be a tall ask, because the golf tournaments that he won, let’s just be real here, to go and win The Tour Championship, you win a gold medal and then you win I guess it would be six other times besides that, it’s just insane.
“He won against the best players in the world, I guess the only argument you could make about his year is that he only won one major championship, I think that would be the one thing you would say, hey, the US Open he didn’t really have much of a showing, The Open Championship the same way, and then the PGA Championship, he got arrested.”
The big task for world number one over the winter
Yes, Scheffler only won one major, but there is arguably not one win which stands out as being the most underwhelming, with four signature event titles, The Players, and the Olympic gold medal before he won The Tour Championship.
Some outstanding players will probably struggle to win four signature events across their entire career, while Scheffler became the first player ever to retain The Players Championship title.
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It is frightening to think about what he could go on and achieve in the coming years, but one of his biggest challenges over the winter is surely going to be finding the motivation to go again after such a staggering year.
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