Justin Thomas perfectly explained an underestimated scottie scheffler skill

Oakmont, without. – The question asked Justin Thomas was simple. It is a man on top of the Golf world doing things we haven’t seen since Tiger Woods. But when people ask you “What is Scottie Scheffler doing so special, what do you say?”

“What are he doing?” Thomas replied, during his press conference in front of the tournament in US. “Well, everything.”

You have heard to refrain before. (Jordan Spieth offered a similar A month ago.) Becomes made ordinary to hear the upper benefits describe Scheffler’s brightness because, well, it has become common that Scheffler shows it. There were nine victories in 2024, of course. But technically, Scheffler’s most dominant version is what we are seeing now. He had the five -stroke victory in the Championship PGA. There was also the eight -stroke victory in the CJ cup that preceded them. And the four -shot victory in the memorial tour two weeks ago. These do not win alone. They are explosions, and they look really good on a database. Just ask Datagolf, the main page of the analytics in the Golf Media, which lists the players at their absolute peak.

You can find evidence in numbers – Scheffler’s peak is better than anyone else in the modern era except Tiger Woods’ – or you can let the good continue to continue entering.

“It’S’S easy,” Thomas said. “The sole aspect of his game is incredible. I think his mental game is better than anyone here. Being able to play with those expectations and stay present as often as he is perhaps more impressive than the golf he is playing. well. “

The differences between Thomas and Scheffler are, at the same time, small and large. Thomas actually has a shorter game better than Scheffler recently, if only from a slide. Scheffler has come out in front of him – again, only barely – in the greens. Approaching the green, there are not many changes – thomas exists in the 95th percentage of PGA Tour Pro; Scheffler is at the 99th percentage. The biggest difference emerges from tee where, although Thomas hits it further, Scheffler has become extremely accurate, and still very long.

In short, Thomas is often right theretrying to keep the pace but only a little behind. Therefore, why he wants to imitate, more than anything, the mental game impossible to qualify Scheffler. The idea of ​​letting yourself go into strife – ignoring expectations and noise and just playing your game and trusting it to raise you on the manager’s table – is what he has tried to do more recently.

“I’m getting better by letting myself go to the quarrel,” Thomas said. “I feel like I was leaving myself last year, but then come on Saturday, Sunday, I was forcing it and trying to win the tournament just by playing and believing and believing.”

He felt he did it well at the Valsspar Championship in March, where he almost won, but he ended second. He felt it made it in the RBC legacy in April, where He traveled and won for the first time in years. He felt he did it in the brain, in May, but felt the walls of the tour slowly bowing down and he forced the issue to 16, leading to an unnecessary trick.

“It was like in Hilton Head that I just had completely, just a kind of acceptance, like I will just play here,” Thomas said. “Of course I wanted to win, but it’s just like I’m doing the best I can here. I’m not like, if I have a bird opportunity, I’ll try to make birds, because I want to make birds, not because I have to win this tour. Just get into that (thought) more, so it would be better.”

There is an initial issue with access to that place of acceptance, however. You are playing a tour at the same time with Scottie Scheffler, whose best is even better than the best of anyone else during 72 holes. Thomas made it clear when asked about the mountain that had to climb to try again world No.1.

“(That’s) still in my mind,” he said. “I even thought last week – I’m sure some people will laugh, but if I can even catch it this year. Earn how many tours in the rest of the year … and maybe Scottie doesn’t play or something.”

This may be what it takes at the moment.

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