Scottie Scheffler experienced something at the St Jude Championship which has become quite unique for the world number one this season – as he finished in the top five without winning in Memphis.
Scottie Scheffler‘s remarkable 2024 will go down in the history books as one of the greatest seasons of all-time, with seven wins coming worldwide – with victories at The Masters, The Players and Bay Hill only telling part of the story from his year.
In fact, he has only finished outside the top 10 on two occasions all year, while his fourth place finish at the St Jude Championship was only his fifth top five of the season where he has not actually won.
Scheffler has stunned his peers with his performances this year, winning from a variety of positions. And it looks more than likely that he will start The Tour Championship with at least a two shot lead over the rest of the field.
Wyndham Clark amazed by achievements of Scottie Scheffler
But first, he will be looking to end his one-tournament drought without a win at the BMW Championship this week, with the top 50 players on the PGA Tour at Castle Pines for the penultimate play-off event.
Wyndham Clark is also one of those who is in the field for the tournament. And speaking on CBS Colorado, the 2023 US Open champion outlined how impressed he has been by the 28-year-old.
“It’s, I think, elevated all our games, but it’s amazing to see what he’s done,” he said.
“We even talk amongst ourselves like, you have good runs where you play great golf for three weeks, or you play for two months, three months, half a season or a full season; he’s done it now for two years where he’s pretty much been flawless and unbeatable and that’s a stretch that maybe only one other player has been like, and that’s Tiger. So it’s really impressive, but hopefully I come into my stretch and maybe start doing some Scottie stuff of my own.”
An aura very few players have
Scheffler definitely appears to have the kind of aura that only a handful of players in the last few decades have had; where you believe that he is always likely to make something happen if he is anywhere near being in contention.
In hindsight, it was foolish to ever write him off at the Olympics, even when Jon Rahm had a four-shot lead on the field around the turn on Sunday at Le Golf National. And his victory proved to be the least surprising surprise in many months.
The fact that other players have been so impressed by what Scheffler is doing is telling. They will have a better idea than most regarding whether he can sustain this dominance over a much longer period – and it certainly seems that they are not expecting the planet’s best player to fall away anytime soon.
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