Comparing Scotty Scheffler and Tiger Woods' Golf Stats

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00:00Let, let's do some Scotty tiger comparison stats.

00:03We inevitably have to do this.

00:04The first one I'm going to start with from the broadcast on NBC,

00:08tiger woods took 1,197 days after his first major title to win his fourth.

00:14Can you guess how many days Scottie took?

00:16It was, it was the exact same amount of days, right?

00:19Exactly the same amount of days. How crazy is that?

00:22Kyle Porter, awesome resource on a number of different things, you know,

00:25great writing. You should check out a normal sport.

00:28He pulled some, some graphs and stats from data golf and want to share a

00:32couple of these. The first is from data golf,

00:34the peak strokes gain metric and Scotty, this is,

00:38this is prior to Sunday today. So this should go up even a little higher,

00:41but to your point that you made a second ago, there's tiger,

00:44the top of this list it's September, 2000, that historic season.

00:49And Scotty's the next on that list above even BJ Singh,

00:52a season which we raved about on a number of occasions, you know,

00:55what he did in the middle of tiger's prime.

00:56Uh, so that adds a context to what Scotty's done, uh, this year.

01:01And the other one that I thought was really interesting is the major over

01:05performers graph where, and the way Kyle frames it is in,

01:10in non majors. So, okay, this is, let me, let me get this stat, right.

01:14One underrated aspect of Scotty's how much better he becomes at majors.

01:18Here is strokes gain numbers since January 1st, 2022 in the non majors and

01:24players. He's, he's strokes gains 2.75 and the majors and the players 3.11.

01:30So the way Kyle frames it is he's Rory and non majors and he becomes tiger at

01:36majors. I just, you know, I know the tiger comparisons are tough. Uh,

01:40the other one that we have from Justin Ray, uh,

01:43this is Scotty's 10th consecutive win when holding the outright 54 hole lead on

01:48tour. And then you contextualize that against tiger. Uh, tiger has the longest

01:52streak 37 consecutive times. Uh, I know it's still hard.

01:57He has a whole career ahead of him to build up this profile to stack up next to

02:00tiger, but there are enough of these stats where, you know, we're not doing full

02:05career. We're doing short periods of time and the numbers really line up.

02:09Oh, totally. And it's, it's wild that we can compare legitimately somebody to

02:14tiger woods. I just didn't ever think it was going to happen. I think, uh,

02:18golf fans, uh, I would say networks, all PGA tour,

02:23everybody's looking for who can replace tiger woods because there will never be

02:27another one. And here we are watching somebody that,

02:30that is bringing it every single day and has numbers, uh, to, to prove it.

02:35And he, he's, gosh, uh, every time he gets a 54 hole lead, it's, it's night,

02:41night, goodbye. Um, and that's just exactly how it feels. And I was, uh,

02:45I was talking to Paul McGinley today about a couple of different things, uh,

02:48as we were driving over the golf course and we're,

02:52we're kind of talking about what makes Scotty Sheffler so good.

02:55And the point I made to him was,

02:57I just thought that Scotty Sheffler has better club face awareness than any

03:02other player in the world.

03:03And he went on to say that, that his coach back in the day, uh,

03:08who's no longer living that, that that was something that they always talked

03:12about was trying to get that club face awareness to where if I do a little bit

03:16of this or a little bit of that at the bottom, I can feel the face.

03:19And Scotty Sheffler starting every single day, checking his grip, uh,

03:24runs this process that is process that is so detailed.

03:28He's not somebody that's chasing, uh, speed.

03:31He's not chasing a certain type of golf swing, a modern type of swing.

03:34He's got a coach in Randy Smith. He's not going to screw him up.

03:37Um, and he plays, uh, with creativity and feel with,

03:43because he knows where the face is because he can manipulate it at the bottom,

03:46um, and a golf swing. That's, that's fairly repeatable. He's got it.

03:50He's a strong ox of a body. Uh,

03:53I think the only comparison of,

03:54of how great Scotty can be when his career is done is wondering, gosh,

03:59I wish this, this run would have started a little earlier, right?

04:02Like if he would have been in his early twenties, uh,

04:05when he got started on the PGA tour versus going through four years at, uh,

04:09at Texas and, and going through the corn fairy tour, it,

04:12it started his clock a little later and we know, uh,

04:15what father time will do, uh, in this game,

04:17but it's hard to see that Scotty Sheffler is on, on,

04:20on the backend of anything. Like we're still,

04:23we're still writing this roller coaster up.

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