Trevor Immelman has started to notice one big change in both Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy recently

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Scottie Scheffler is the best player in the world right now by quite a margin, with Rory McIlroy in a distant second.

McIlroy began the 2025 season on fire, winning three tournaments by April, including The Players Championship and The Masters.

However, Scheffler has been the dominant force in the game since early May, with four wins including two major championships.

Brandel Chamblee has suggested that Scheffler is a far better player than McIlroy right now, and it’s hard to argue against him.

McIlroy’s fine form at the start of 2025 clearly motivated Scheffler to work even harder than usual.

And the Northern Irishman seems to have created a monster, in golfing terms.

Trevor Immelman has noticed a change in Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy

Trevor Immelman is one of the lead analysts in professional golf these days.

He always talks with real eloquence and a deep knowledge and understanding of the game.

Immelman has been speaking to The Fried Egg Golf Podcast about Scheffler and McIlroy.

And the South African has noticed a big change in both players.

“He (Scheffler) seems to be making 2-3 20-30 footers a round at least in 2025. I saw the stat, he was 59 of 63 from 10 feet and in this week. You get a guy who hits the ball that accurately with that amount of control and he’s only missed four putts from 10 feet and in the whole week, there’s just no way you’re going to get anywhere near him, he’s just going to blow the field away every single time that happens.

“To me, what I’m really starting to see, and I’ve seen this from McIlroy over the past 18 months or so as well, when you start to see a player who’s really good at something, so both of those guys are really great ball-strikers, and both of them, ironically, have not been great putters. You see the differences between how they go about putting and how they go about the long game which is their ultimate strength. In both those cases with McIlroy and Scheffler, you’re starting to see now a similar routine, a similar timing standpoint, a similar clarity of thought when they putt as they do when they hit the ball. All of a sudden, those things are starting to mould together perfectly and they are looking so comfortable on the greens.

“That’s a tough spot for any of their competitors to have to deal with, because both of them have turned what was their weakness into a strength.”

Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy’s putting improvements on the PGA Tour

Scheffler has clearly taken his game to a new level entirely this season, but McIlroy has made marginal gains as well.

Both of their improvements have centred around their rise up the strokes gained putting rankings in 2025.

Aside from McIlroy’s 2021-22 season, both of their stats on the greens up until this season were nowhere near good enough.

However, they have both clearly made huge strides in the putting department over the past six months or so.

And if Scheffler and McIlroy maintain the current levels they are showing on the greens, they could dominate PGA Tour golf for the next decade at least.