Scottie Scheffler’s form over the past four years has been the closest thing we’ve seen to sheer and utter dominance since Tiger Woods’ prime years.
Since February 2022, Scheffler has won 21 PGA Tour titles, including four major championships.
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He’s obviously still a long way behind the records set by Woods, but he’s undoubtedly on the right trajectory to at least get close to matching the great man’s achievements.
Scottie Scheffler is head and shoulders above his rivals right now, much like Tiger Woods was in his pomp.
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Scheffler became the third-youngest player to reach 21 PGA Tour wins on Sunday at TPC Southwind.
Woods was the youngest to reach 21 victories after his Open Championship triumph in 2000 when he was just 24.
However, Scheffler does have Woods beat in one particular department.
Scottie Scheffler achieves what Tiger Woods was never capable of
Golf journalist Ryan Lavner argued that Scheffler has been a more complete player in 2026 than Woods was during some of his very best years on the PGA Tour.
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While speaking on The Golf Channel Podcast with Rex and Lav, he highlighted how the 30-year-old world number one has been elite in all four of the key statistical categories this year.
“They mentioned the broadcast that this was the best statistical season of Scottie Scheffler’s career. That is not true,“ Lavner explained.
“It is the most well-rounded, the most complete season of Scottie Scheffler’s career, and it actually appears right now, as we sit here with two events remaining of the PGA Tour’s regular season, that he is going to finish inside the top 10 in all four major strokes gained statistical categories.
“That’s off the tee that’s approaching the green, that’s around the green, and putting.
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“And strokes gained data has only been around since 2003, 2004.
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“So we don’t have Tiger’s 2000 season to compare, in which you could probably make a strong case that he was in the top 10 in all four categories there.
“But in this strokes gained era, we have never seen this before, where Scottie is among the top 10 in all four categories.
“You’re thinking, oh, what about Tiger in ’05? Tiger ’06, Tiger in ’07, and Tiger ’09?
“Tiger in 2012, 2013, and 2019?
“He was statistically awesome.
“He was statistically dominant in those years, but even in those great years, and they were historic years, for Tiger Woods, some of the best golf he’s ever played in ’06 and ’07. There was still at least one part of his game that statistically was not among the top 10.
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“Some years, it was his driver, some years it was around the green.
“We always think of Tiger having like this flair for the dramatic and the hole-outs and the chip-ins and the bunker shots, and just the great hands he had. Obviously, all of that was very, very memorable.
“From a statistical standpoint, there was still some years in which he was outside the top 10.
Scottie Scheffler’s most complete season of all time
While Scheffler doesn’t have the amount of wins to his name this year that he had in 2024 and 2025, the consistency of his all-round game has definitely improved.
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And Lavner highlighted exactly that.
“Yes, results-wise, this has been a frustrating and annoying season for Scottie Scheffler, at least compared to what we have seen since 2022,“ he explained.
“But the completeness of his game, the all-round nature of it, where he has so many different levers that he can pull if one part of his game is off.
“We’ve never seen Scottie like this before.“
Scheffler’s second win of the 2026 PGA Tour season was only a matter of time.
Now that he finally got over the line in Memphis, it should surprise nobody if he finishes off the season with two more victories.
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