Scottie Scheffler will be hopeful of rediscovering his best form at The Players Championship this week.
Scheffler’s game has been slightly off on the PGA Tour so far this season, although he does already have a win to his name.
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The 29-year-old world number one still hasn’t finished outside the top 25 since August 2024, and he has proven time and time again that not only can he contend when he’s not at his best, but he can win.
Scheffler remains optimistic after his poor showing at Bay Hill last week, by his standards at least.
One thing’s for sure, Scheffler will need to improve his driving, iron play and putting at TPC Sawgrass, if he is to have any chance of winning The Players Championship this week.
The man from Dallas, Texas, has been the best player in the professional game for three or four years now, and it’s not even close.
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But what does he have that has enabled him to be so dominant on the PGA Tour since 2022?
What Scottie Scheffler does that scares every player in world golf
It’s fair to say that Scheffler has produced a certain level of golf over the past few years that we haven’t seen since Tiger Woods in his prime.
In a game of fine margins though, how has he managed to separate himself from the likes of Rory McIlroy, Xander Schauffele and co?
When speaking on The Golf Channel’s Live From The Players, journalist Eamon Lynch revealed what a veteran PGA Tour player told him about Scheffler this week at TPC Sawgrass.
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“I talked to a veteran player yesterday, and he was talking about Scottie,“ Lynch said.
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“And he said, ‘wouldn’t it be great that your worst week, you played lousy and you tie for 12th, which is what he did out at Riviera?’
“You could argue, Scottie’s worst and most loose performance, we’ve seen out of him, came last week at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and he was still top 25.
“And that’s, I think, what scares the other players about Scottie.
“We’ve seen it also this year in Phoenix. We saw it at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He will have a lousy run.
“He looks as though he’s just kind of out of sorts out of the tournament. And suddenly he’s lurking, he’s a couple of strokes back on Sunday afternoon.
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“He just doesn’t go away.“
That is absolutely spot on.
Scottie Scheffler’s ‘C’ game is good enough to win
Even when Scheffler has his ‘C’ game, he is capable of winning. He proved that at La Quinta in January when he romped away to victory at the American Express.
His mentality is arguably the strongest in the game while his miss dispersion is about as tight as it can be…most of the time.
There have been cracks in Scheffler’s armour over the past few weeks.
However, nobody in the game works harder on the practice ground than the 20-time PGA Tour winner.
He will be desperate to show the world that he’s not going anywhere by winning The Players Championship this week.
Would anyone really bet against him doing just that?
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