Scottie Scheffler removed almost every ounce of drama from the last round of the oldest golf championship. Scheffler led the 153rd championship open with four after 54 holes and sailed Sunday at Royal Portrush, shooting 68 and winning with the same difference On a day of decision that was never in discussion.
World no. 1, who just turned 29 a month ago, now has four main titles and three of the four legs of Grand Slam career.
Inevitably, Here come the comparisons.
“I don’t think we thought the golf world would see someone as dominant that Tiger would come so quickly, and here’s a kind of scottie taking that throne of dominance,” said Xander Schauffe. “You can’t even say he’s on the run. He’s just killing him for more than two years. He’s a tough man to beat, and when you see his name on the manager’s table, it suck for us.”
Scheffler is now the third youngest player to win 15 Events PGA Tour (he has 17) as well as four degrees, joining a list that includes only Tiger Woods (who did it at the age of 24) and Jack Nicklaus (age 25). He is also one of the four players in the story to win Masters, Open Championship and PGA Championship before turning 30, joining Woods, Nicklaus and Gary Player. And he is one of four players over the past 50 years – along with Woods, Rory Mcilroy and Brooks Koepka – to win four or more degrees in his first 25 main starts.
We could do this all day.
Tiger’s first victory: 1997 masters
Tiger’s Main 4th Victory: 2000 Open
1,197 days awayFirst great scottie victory: 2022 masters
The 4th win of Scottie: 2025 Open
1,197 days away pic.twitter.com/vjjghhsg4m– Claire Rogers (@kclairerogers) July 20, 2025
But the thing is, as Scheffler doubled in diplomas this year (he also won PGA in Quail Hollow) now has only 21 names that have more big titles than him.
Now the debate begins to boil, especially as few players – especially Woods – have prevailed in the way Scheffler has the last two years.
Scheffler, however, says those tiger comparisons are “meaningless”.
“Tiger won, what, 15 degrees? That’s my fourth,” Scheffler said on Sunday, Claret South. “I just have a quarter of the road there. I think Tiger is just in the Golf game. He was inspiring to me growing up. He was a very talented guy and he was a special person to be as good as he was in the Golf game.”
villain I made titles at the beginning of this week – Before the results are calculated – when he said, in short, he worked all his life for these wins, but golf is not the most important thing in his life. (“I like to be able to play this game to live,” he said then.
Maybe that’s where Scheffler and Woods are different.
“I’m not motivated by winning championships,” Scheffer said Sunday, elaborating his response to approaching Tiger. “I don’t look at the beginning of the year and just say, hey, I want to win the shifts X, I want to win whatever it is. I don’t do it. I have dreams and aspirations I think about, but at the end of the day, when I wake up to practice, I feel like the one that motivates me and go out of my dream.
“When I wake up in the morning, I try to make maximum effort every day, I’ll go out and practice. When I’m working out, when I’m doing the cold tub, making healing, I feel like I am called just to do it to my maximum ability.
As Scheffler won the tour on Sunday, you can argue that Mcilroy won the week, connecting to the 7th and Giving his crowd at home showing He had hoped for six years ago when the first one returned to Portrarian for the first time and he lost the cut.
Mcilroy ended 10 under, but was still seven timid Scheffler, who Mcilroy praised after his round on Sunday.
“He is a bar that we are all trying to achieve,” Mcilroy said. “In a historical context, you can argue that there are only two or three players in the history of the game that have been in a run, the one that Scottie has been here for the last 24 to 36 months.
Just don’t tell Scheffler that.
Joshow
Golfit.com editor
As Golf.com management editor, Berhow deals with the daily and long -term planning of one of the most read news and sports services websites. He spends most of his days writingEditing, planning and asked if he would ever break 80. Before joining Golf.com in 2015, he worked in newspapers in Minnesota and Iowa. A graduate of Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn, he lives in twin cities with his wife and two children. You can reach it in Joshua_berhow@golf.com.

