The ‘superpower’ Scottie Scheffler has which Jordan Spieth has always struggled to find during his career

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It is likely that most golf fans would not have believed you had they been told at the end of July 2017 that Jordan Spieth would go into the 2025 season still awaiting the fourth major title of his career.

There have not been many players in the modern era who have flown out of the blocks in the manner Jordan Spieth managed to. The 31-year-old won the first two majors of 2015, tying the record for the lowest score at the Masters as he reached 18 under par.

Remarkably, his worst result in the four majors in 2015 was a tie for fourth. He should have retained his Masters title in 2016, but he moved a step closer to winning the career grand slam at The Open Championship the following year.

Unfortunately, Spieth has only won two PGA Tour events since then. Meanwhile, he has finished in the top 10 in the FedEx Cup standings on just one occasion since the start of the 2018 season.

The big difference between Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth

There appears to be a real question mark over whether Spieth has any chance of reaching the game’s summit again, particularly with Scottie Scheffler dominating the PGA Tour in 2024.

And speaking on the Fried Egg Golf Podcast, Kyle Porter explained the big difference between the way Spieth plays and Scheffler as he outlined why it is going to be so tricky for the former world number one to rediscover his previous form.

“When you have somebody like that, who has been generationally good at every age, it gets very difficult for that person to start to make these decisions out of humility. What I think Scottie Scheffler’s superpower is is his humility. He is willing to say, ‘hey, I can hit this shot seven out of 10 times, but because I can’t hit it three out of 10 times, I’m not going to take it on. I’m going to lay up over here, I’m going to hit over here, away from trouble. I’m not going to short side myself’,” he said.

“And I think so often Spieth, whether it’s because he wants to prove a point to himself, or prove it to other people, or because he’s just done it for so long, I think he has a hard time making smart choices on the golf course.”

How Spieth’s 2015 stats compared with Scheffler’s 2024

It definitely does appear that there are big differences in Spieth’s game in 2015 and Scheffler’s nine years later. And what is perhaps a little surprising is that it was Spieth who had the better all-round game.

While Scheffler was outside the top 70 for strokes gained putting, and 17th for around the greens, Spieth was not outside the top 15 for any strokes gained category nine years earlier.

Of course, it does perhaps act as a warning for Scheffler that he cannot afford to grow complacent in the coming years if he does want to succeed where Spieth struggled.

But when you look at where Scheffler’s putting statistics were in 2024, it is frightening to think that there may be so much more to come from the 28-year-old.