The Memorial: Scottie Scheffler stats prove he’ll turn it around

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Scottie Scheffler has had a terrific season: he has a pair of victories, two top-10 finishes in majors, and now could be the number-one ranked participant on this planet.

His first win got here within the desert, the place he gained the Waste Administration Phoenix Open at TPC Scottsdale.

The Phoenix Open marked the PGA Tour’s first designated occasion of the season, tournaments that function $20 million purses and high-caliber fields.

Along with these eight designated occasions, the PGA Tour lists the Sentry Event of Champions, the Gamers Championship, and the WGC-Dell Applied sciences Match Play as elevated occasions with large purses.

In these tournaments, Scheffler is 95-under par, in line with NUCLR Golf Stats. He has dominated the designated/elevated occasions to date this season.

Scheffler and Jon Rahm, who gained the 2023 Masters Event, have rotated out and in of the primary rating in 2023.

But, Scheffler is the undisputed primary participant within the designated/elevated occasions. Rahm is 21 strokes behind Scottie to this point this season.

The previous Texas Longhorn ranks first on the PGA Tour in strokes gained: off the tee, strokes gained: tee-to-green, whole strokes gained, and greens-in-regulation share.

The one flaw in Scheffler’s recreation is his placing, as he ranks 114th on tour in strokes gained placing.

Regardless of that, his brief recreation is terrific general. He ranks sixth in scrambling share, getting up-and-down 66.3% of the time.

Scottie Scheffler at the Memorial Tournament

DUBLIN, Ohio — Scottie Scheffler hits from the primary fairway through the first spherical of the Memorial Event introduced by Workday at Muirfield Village Golf Membership on June 01, 2023.
Photograph by Andy Lyons/Getty Pictures

Nonetheless, Scheffler received off to a poor begin on the Memorial, taking pictures a 2-over par 74 in spherical one, the primary time this season he opened a match with a spherical over par.

A 3-putt led to 1 bogey on the par-3 4th gap, whereas troubles together with his wedges led to a few different bogeys on the sixteenth, 2nd, and eighth.

However understanding how Scheffler has performed this season, he’ll put this opening spherical behind him.