AUGUSTA, GEORGIA | I don’t know if there has ever been anything quite as meteoric as Scottie Scheffler’s ascension from maiden PGA Tour winner to No. 1 in the world to Masters champion in 57 days. It seems like only yesterday we were debating whether a guy who’d never won professionally deserved a captain’s pick at the Ryder Cup.
The way Scheffler beat back every challenge – including his own self-doubts that led him to tears in the privacy of his rented Augusta home on Sunday morning – was remarkable. Just when you thought Cam Smith or Rory McIlroy or Augusta National or the moment itself would expose some flaw in the 25-year-old Texan, he stepped up and delivered.
How nice it must be to be able to four-jack the final green and slip on a green jacket.
There should be no more doubts from anyone, including Scheffler, that he’s simply the best player in the world right now. Nobody can win every week, not even Tiger Woods at his peak, but Scheffler has come as close to perfection as anyone can in the last two months.
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