TaylorMade club fitter says what Scottie Scheffler did on the range in August will ‘freak you out’

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Scottie Scheffler signed a multi-year deal with TaylorMade back in March 2022 and since then, he has evolved into the best golfer on the planet by quite some distance.

Scheffler never ceases to amaze with his exceptionally consistent levels of golf. He has recorded 15 consecutive top-8 finishes on the PGA Tour, with six wins coming in his last 13 events.

However, TaylorMade reps are still stunned by some of the things they see the 29-year-old world number one do.

Scheffler has now been the world number one golfer for a total of 162 weeks.

He has 19 PGA Tour wins to his name including four major championships, all of which he has won over the past three years and eight months.

Despite a relatively slow start to the 2025 season, he soon picked up his first win in his home state of Texas in May.

Scheffler said McIlroy’s Masters win motivated him to work even harder on his game, and the rewards quickly followed.

However, it wasn’t all plain sailing, after Scheffler’s driver failed testing ahead of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow just two weeks after his win at the Byron Nelson.

What Scottie Scheffler did on the range in August will ‘freak you out’

Scheffler’s personal TaylorMade club fitter, Adrian Rietveld, has been speaking on the Fore Play Podcast Plus about the Dallas native’s sensational form in 2025.

Rietveld follows the 19-time PGA Tour winner around to every single tournament throughout the year.

And now he has shared a story about something that Scheffler did on the driving range in 2025 that will ‘freak you out’.

Firstly, he opened up on what happened when Scheffler’s driver was deemed to be non-conforming ahead of the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow in May.

While Rory McIlroy’s driver failing the tests hit the headlines at the PGA Championship, Scheffler was very much in the same boat as the Northern Irishman.

“The thing with Scottie that week, and he alluded to this in his press conference after, we were ready to go,“ Rietveld explained.

“He had the same driver all of 2024, and most of 2025 up until that point, and during the Byron Nelson and the week before that, we had worked for two weeks on situations that could come up with regards to a driver, and a driver being on the edge.

“So when he called me on the Sunday before the PGA Championship, he got there early, the driver got tested early and failed. We were ready to go with like an option A and an option B.

“I still believe Scottie Scheffler has a Qi35 driver in his locker that he hasn’t hit a bad shot out of yet, I’m telling you, I’m convinced about that.

“The situation was like, he was just about to play a major championship. If this would have happened at the Byron Nelson, where they were testing, maybe he would have given the Qi35 a crack, right? But now we were at a major championship, I think it was better to be safe than sorry, and use what has won you so much.

“We still had options, we still had work to do that week. We went for the driver which was so close to the original one. It was almost an identical copy once we dialled in the launch and spin and he went on to win the tournament.

“People say he won the tournament putting a new driver in play, but he really did his homework, he didn’t get lucky.

“I’ll tell you something else to do with that. He changed driver on the Tuesday of Memphis again. So, this is going to freak you out, imagine the pressure of this right.

“We were in Memphis and he calls me and says, ‘have you got all those back-up heads of mine’? and I said, ‘I’ve got them, I travel with them every week’.

“We get there and he’s got his driver out, he’s also got the driver that failed at the PGA because he really wants to compare all of the small differences between all of these heads, and they all have tiny tolerances.

“So I go and measure things up and give him one of the back-up heads and he goes, ‘You see this one, this sits more square like the original one’. I’m looking at it and I’m like, ‘you’re probably not wrong here’, and if I try to make myself see this I probably can. So he goes and hits it, the spin-rate comes out at 200 RPS, and that was literally what his launch characteristics were with his original one, so he says, ‘that’s perfect, we’ll go with this’.

“So I had to stop him there and I had to go, ‘hold on Scottie, you’ve just won The Open Championship and you’ve won the PGA’, and he goes, ‘No, we’re good’, and he goes on to win the BMW the following week.“

Scottie Scheffler’s results before and after the 2025 PGA Championship

Scheffler went from strength to strength on the PGA Tour after his first win of the season at the Byron Nelson in May.

Here are how his results compare before the PGA Championship began and after his first tee shot at Quail Hollow:

Scheffler has now won an incredible 13 PGA Tour tournaments in the last 20 months.

The scary thing for his rivals is that there is absolutely no sign of any let-up from him either, when it comes to how hard he practices.

Scheffler will be looking to make 2026 his best season yet on the PGA Tour.