Scottie Scheffler suddenly became a Rory McIlroy fan at the end of their rounds Thursday at the 2025 Tour Championship. Here's why.

Scheffler has authored one of the most dominant stretches on the PGA Tour in recent memory. The 29-year-old won The CJ Cup and two weeks later secured a PGA Championship win. Since then, Scheffler has earned wins at the Memorial Tournament, The Open Championship and last week's BMW Championship.

Every superhero has an origin story and Scottie Scheffler’s narrative arc can be traced back to November 15, 2020 – a series of events that barely anybody noticed at the time.

Over the last three years, Scottie Scheffler has seemingly become the heir-apparent to Tiger Woods. Before his breakthrough victory at the 2022 WM Phoenix Open, Scheffler had posted 18 top 10s, including three runner-up finishes,

The world No. 1 heads into this week’s Tour Championship with five wins in 18 events this year. But it’s how he fares when he doesn’t come out on top that really explains his brilliance.

Following golf as a kid, Scheffler admired his game, and it seems that the comparisons to Woods seem ridiculous to him, although he certainly feels enormous honor for it.

Scottie Scheffler recently spoke about the swing that has allowed him to become one of the best ball strikers in the world of golf.

Scottie Scheffler erased a four-shot deficit in five holes and then delivered a haymaker on the daunting par-3 17th by chipping in from 82 feet for birdie that carried him to victory Sunday in the BMW Championship for his fifth PGA Tour title of the year.