What Phil Kenyon was saying about Scottie Scheffler’s putting behind the scenes at The Memorial Tournament

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Scottie Scheffler won the Memorial Tournament by four shots on Sunday.

There’s no doubting the fact that Scheffler is the best player in the world right now by a very long way.

His relentless performance at the Memorial Tournament was further evidence that he can win around any track, however he is playing at the time.

Jack Nicklaus lauded Scheffler’s brilliance after he won the Memorial, and that kind of praise definitely doesn’t come cheap.

Scheffler proved just how good he is during tough conditions at Memorial, and right now it has to be said that nobody in world golf can hold a candle to the Texan.

It’s funny now to think that Scheffler was actually being questioned earlier this season!

He has certainly silenced any doubters he may have had earlier this year.

What Phil Kenyon said about Scottie Scheffler’s putting at The Memorial Tournament

If Scheffler has one weakness at all, it is most certainly with the putter in his hand.

He’s actually a solid putter – definitely not the worst on tour.

However, he does miss his fair share of birdie opportunities from close range.

That said, there were signs during the Memorial that Scheffler’s putting was better than it has been at any point this season.

During The Smylie Show this week, Smylie Kaufman has revealed what Scheffler’s putting coach Phil Kenyon told him about the world number one’s stroke during practice at Muirfield Village.

He said, “Phil Kenyon, I spoke to him on the putting green, and I said, ‘anything new with Scottie’, and he was like, ‘first off yes, he’s really good at golf’. I was like, ‘yes, yes he is’. He said that the PGA Championship he noticed his stroke that it was starting to kind of creep the wrong way a little bit. His tendency would be to get a little out on the way back and kind of have to reroute it a little bit. He was putting well, so it wasn’t something they necessarily had to change at the PGA. He worked through it so, good for him to be able to work through such a tough deal and still win the PGA Championship.

“So this week, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, he was working very hard on his setup. So the things that he typically gets off on, first off, Scottie is right-eye dominant, which is an interesting piece of information that I don’t think I ever really knew, but now it makes a lot of sense. When you start thinking about how he swings the golf club. When you look at it from a face on angle, you see how over the ball he is. When you watch his sternum everything is kind of out in front of the golf ball and his head is kind of staying in there looking at it a long time, and I think that has a lot to do with his eyesight, so his right eye can be on top of the golf ball.

“So for his swing, he would typically get set up too far left like he did at the PGA and his pelvis gets a little bit up and forward. And then he said, not shocking but, ‘when his swing gets off, typically he has the same setup issues over the putter. So they were working hard on trying to get all of his lines to match up during the week. They kind of cleaned up his stroke and they putted really well this week.“

If Scheffler now becomes one of the best putters in the world, then his rivals really will have a major problem on their hands.

Scottie Scheffler’s stats at the Memorial Tournament

The 28-year-old American was totally dominant in pretty much every single department at Jack’s Place.

Here’s how his numbers stacked up throughout the week at Muirfield Village.

The thing with Scheffler is that while he may not be the best putter in the world, he seems to make putts when they matter the most.

If he putts even to an average standard, he usually wins.

But Scheffler finishing inside the top 35 on the greens at the Memorial last week could signal the start of a whole new era of dominance from him.