An in-depth look at Scheffler’s 2025 season _ PGA TOUR Studios.

Trying to follow up a year like last year was always difficult. One of the all-time seasons for Scottie Scheffler. I always dreamed of playing on the PGA Tour. That's what I wanted to do. I always had confidence in my abilities and I always felt like I would make it out here, but I didn't really get past that. So I didn't think about winning, I didn't think about results, and my goal was always just to make it. Scottie Scheffler succumbed to the Christmas injury. It sounded not great. Hopefully he'll be back for his next anticipated start, but he'll be sorely missed this week by fans. I started off the year with injury. I lost a lot of the progress that I made in the offseason. There was so much momentum at the end of last year. It was stalled with the wine glass breaking off in his hand. Anytime you get injured, especially in a little freak accident like the one I had, it's a little bit unsettling. I couldn't really move my hand too much and so I didn't really know the extent of the damage. All I know is that it hurt pretty good. When I finally saw it, it was like, whoa, that's a pretty substantial injury. Fortunately, I didn't do very much damage at all. I had to take basically five weeks off of golf activities and so you lose a lot physically. I lose a lot with my swing. It definitely added a wrinkle to the start of the season that I wasn't expecting. Scottie, you didn't win early on and people were saying, what's wrong with Scottie? Starting off with high expectations and not quite having your ability to practice and all that stuff, it kind of put him in a place of frustration early on and then he finally was like, okay, let's take a step back and just get back to the process and once he did that, the mental reset, it was like, all right, he's back. At the end of the day, I think what we always fall back on is our preparation and that's what helps me come out here and play well because when we step up on the first tee, I've done all the work in order to play well and it's my job now to just go out there and compete and have fun doing it. As soon as he showed up at the Byron Nelson, you're like, okay, there it is. He's found it again. All right, Colt, what's it looking like for Scheffler? Well, there's a decision to be made here, Andrew. He's got 244 yards to the hole. What do you think here, Ian? I think he goes for it. When you have a big lead like that, it's nice to be able to kind of keep it and so that was a shot in which I was taking on some risk but I had a good line in the bunker and I felt like with the way I was shaping the shot, nothing too bad could happen. I remember it was a pretty sick shot. That's three iron. Wow, does this look good in the air? Oh, yes it is. Absolutely sensational. It was just a really nice three iron out of the bunker and I had a pretty straight little 20-footer. It's been an absolute clinic all week long and a chance for another eagle here. Are you kidding me? Pure as can be. How good was that? When you watch somebody great do something great, it's surprising to us because we can't do it but to them it's like, hey, I see this and I can execute it. Full circle for Scheffler. Scottie wins for the first time this year and it comes in the event he attended as a kid. I knew it was going to be a challenging start to the year. Randy and Ted did a really good job of helping me stay patient and not overreacting to things and eventually that patience paid off. Quail Hollow awaiting the second major of the year, the PGA Championship. World number one, Scottie Scheffler. He's one of the favorites. Physically going into that week, I wasn't feeling my best. Randy did a really good job of helping me get to a comfortable spot with my swing. I wasn't swinging it perfect by any means but I was doing enough to where I could get it around that golf course. Sometimes when I'm not swinging it the way I want to, I'll just look at Ted and be like, do you see anything? I said, yeah, you're striping it exactly where you must be aiming. It wasn't like he was hitting like a pull hook or something. He was making a perfectly balanced swing and every time he looked up it was going dead straight in the left rough. I said, why don't you just try aiming more to the right and do what you're doing? I'm like, all right, I'll try that and hit a really good shot off the 10th tee and I kind of felt something that clicked and then after that I just started hitting it pretty good. It takes a team sometimes. Even great players need a little bit of guidance, not much. Anytime you're able to win a major championship, there's just so much that goes into it behind the scenes. It really did feel like a team effort just because of all the different factors that went into that week. Jack Nicklaus's prize tournament title, the Memorial. One person has completely changed the complexion of the event right now. That is Ben Griffin, five in front and six ahead of that man. Griffin ready to go. Oh, this is right at it. What a shot. He is just absolutely freewheeling it with total confidence out there right now. Points on Saturday with Ben had like a six or seven shot lead over. He was playing some great golf over the weekend. This guy is on a serious roll right now. Three birdies in a row. The Memorial, I felt like I was probably hitting it better than Scottie. I just wasn't making enough putts that final round and he was making the par putts that were important. That was really, really good stuff there. The golf course was just so difficult that I had a feeling that eventually, you know, he had to make a mistake. Make sure you get it on the green here. Don't get too cute. That's what you were trying to warn us about. Now you bring five into play. He's not going to back down and you've got to really do something special to overtake him. Ben is a machine. Scottie Scheffler, the repeat champion at Jack's event. He's definitely a guy that almost every golfer out here looks up to and tries to, you know, replicate their game after. I'm very motivated to try to get back in the mix with him and be in a lot more final groups with Scottie. Royal Portrush, part of the Open Championship. Rhoda back there in Northern Ireland for the first time since 2019. I felt like I was improving as the year went on and then going into Portrush, I felt like I just brought a lot of intensity to each shot that week. On the Friday evening, I said to my coach, I said, I think he's going to win this one with 10 shots and it's hard for me as a pro golfer to come off the course and feel like that because he's one of your competitors and he definitely looked unbeatable that week. The number one player in our game, Scottie Scheffler, had the best round of his major championship career. The major championships, they take a lot out of you because it takes a lot of focus to play four rounds really well to give yourself a chance to win that tournament and what I learned at Quail Hollow was how I can battle through tournaments and how to manage yourself around for four days. Scottie Scheffler, your champion golfer of the year, a four-shot victory. Caves Valley on this championship Sunday at the BMW where Robert McIntyre will try to do what has been so difficult the last few years, hold off Scottie Scheffler. Hardest hole today and just about as hard as any par three all season long. It's not going anywhere near that flagstick. This is really going to test the touch of both of these players. It's a really difficult pin on Sunday. The pin was back right. That green has so much pitch going back towards that pin so the putts from above the hole are really fast and we'd practiced for that pin location because you know you're going to put it back there. I knew it was fast and the chip came out how I wanted to and as it was rolling I was wondering if it was going to come up short. The golf ball just kept rolling and rolling and then it started breaking and it started to look really good. Believe what you just saw Bobby Matkan, incredible stuff from world number one. It felt like it took an eternity to get to the hole. It was really fun to see that one go in. He just does that every single week. Every day he wakes up he does it. It's really impressive to see what he's doing. The inevitable has arrived again for the world's best. From Dallas, Texas, Scottie Shetler. A friend of mine sent me an article. Apparently Scottie led the PGA Tour in scoring average on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and I think that's remarkable. If you look at any sport usually when you get the lead you start playing conservative and the people that aren't in the lead play very aggressive. To be leading for all four rounds is absolutely unbelievable in my opinion. I think it's been a battle. It was kind of a slow build up and I'm just proud of the fight we had all year and it was nice to get some results from the tournaments and it was definitely another great year out here.