Charlotte, NC-NC-Tournament is some anomentic about rolling a tap-in to win, especially when you remember just a Makeable put that would have brought the Grandstands down. Gallery in Quail Hall – Completely congratulated when Scotty Sheffer tapped to win the PGA Championship – there were still ants for a reason to explode. So the Sheffer gave him an unexpected manner.
“F-yes!” He provoked the cap of his white nike in ancient 18th green and slapping the palms with Caddy Ted Scott. “This is about which I am talking about!” And it tears the roofs from the surrounding luxury boxes.
This is something new from the Sheffeler who is going about his business in his first two years as a tour champion, who are going about their business with all the Varva and Flair of the chat. There were few moments – after the loss of a rider cup, his tears, earlier this week, his anger on local rules, which it turned out, did not hurt him at all – but for most parts, the chefler showed, won, won, a little fist pump or two, took the trophy and went home.
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He explicitly cares about winning the depth – you do not collect three big companies and get up on the top of your profession without a competitive streak that is on the verge on Sociopathic – but he did not always show that on the course. In a social media-operated world, which thrives on the magnificent performance of emotions, he was not a Bryson Dechambo, who was blowing the sky, or the Rory McClaroy, collapsed with Turf. But he attaches to win in a way.
“Winning is very funny, and I think it is very fun to win as many times as I can win. Every week you are playing in a tournament, and you want to give yourself a chance to win.” When I stepped on T on Thursday, I am not thinking what is going to happen on Sunday. I am preparing for the 72-Hole event. This is what I tell myself on 1T: This is 72 holes. This is a lot of time. This is a lot of holes. These are a lot of shots. ,
So why the 72nd-hole spike? It may be a rollercaster to start with a three-stroke lead, which loses every bit of that lead at the turn, and then rebounding with three shovels at nine to seize the control of the tournament, before he reached the green mile. It may be that this is the release of a major winning of Augusta, a major winning outside Georgia, and some of the remaining “yes, but …” excluded one of the narratives. Hell, perhaps it was a revenge for anarchy that Louisville police had produced him a year ago.
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“Just a lot of pleasure,” the Sheffer said after the round when asked about the hat-spike. “I think, you know, just grateful. It was a long week. I felt that it was as difficult as I fought for a tournament in my career. It was a very challenging week.” (He laughed and said that “I definitely have some jokes that I want to say that I am probably going to keep myself about Louisville”.)
Whatever the reason, the release of the chefler was a Cathartic, which was for itself and for the game. He has now established himself as a sports alpha dog. Consider: He has won 15 times on PGA Tour in the last three-Plus years, and only two players have taken less time to win their first 15 tournaments: Jack Nicro and Tiger Woods.
Scotty Chefler celebrated the Wanimaker Trophy and son, Bennett Sheffer, after winning the 2025 PGA Championship in Qulel Hollow. (Photo by Jered C. Tilton/Getty Image)
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At a subtle level, it is also in the elite region. For example, he is the only player in addition to Woods who won the tournament consecutively by at least five strokes. He is the only player in addition to Seve Ballesteros who won his first three big companies by three strokes.
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What does all this mean? Chefters are fast reaching the point where he will not compete with the players on the leaderboard, he will compete against the players in the record book. Yes, Mcilroy, Brooks Koepka, and – if you want to be technical about it – Woods and Phil Mixelson still have bigger companies than the chefler among the active players. But currently anyone connects willpower, flexibility, skill, touch and step-on-throt competition like a skeffler.
In an era of veterans, almost every prominent winner in the 2020s is a multi-vision winner-the longest stand. And he is having fun doing it … which should scare hell from the rest of the region.
He said, “I have prepared my whole life to become somewhat decent in this game, and there is a chance to win a tournament, about which I dreamed as a child, a very good feeling,” he said. “When you get out at 1 T, it’s great. Surely stress. It is definitely challenging, but at the same time, I mean, it’s very fun.”
And talking about the children … Sunday evening, when they pulled out of the scorer room after their round, the chefler caught his young son Bennett. When Sheffoler Bennett went to pass his mother Meerdith – so that Sheffer could claim the Wanamekar Trophy – Bennett started crying and fasting on the Shephaller’s collar. Everyone in Scheffler Entourage was smiling everyone … and can be a long, longer.