Scottie Scheffler is the World No. 1 and the hottest golfer on the planet—but he says he wouldn’t be here without one man: Phil Kenyon. In this emotional and revealing interview, Scheffler credits the legendary putting coach for turning his biggest weakness into a weapon.
Phil Kenyon has worked with golf greats like Rory McIlroy, Francesco Molinari, and Justin Rose—but it’s his work with Scheffler that’s rewriting the story of putting greatness.
🎯 In this video:
Scottie opens up about his putting struggles before working with Kenyon
Why he says “I wouldn’t be winning without Phil’s help”
Inside drills and mental cues Kenyon used to rebuild Scheffler’s confidence
How their partnership evolved into one of golf’s most effective player-coach duos
What Kenyon sees in Scottie that reminds him of the greats
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breakthroughs or things that you when you look back on your time that you’ve really learned about your putting and that you’re proud of having improved. Uh I think where I’m at now, we’re not really second guessing a lot of the stuff that that we’re doing. I think when I was trying to do everything kind of on my own. Um maybe there’s a bit more second guessing and you know, one week we try one thing, the next week we we try something different. It was a little bit more of a search than anything. Just like I grew up being a really good putter. I grew up a small kid playing the back te’s with kids that were older than me and I had to chip and putt if I wanted to compete and I was a great putter and so it was frustrating for me not being able to to hold the putts when I needed to and um you know you look at a year like 23 for me where I hit it really great and you know if I putted a little bit better I maybe could have had a few more wins and um looking back on a year like that it and then comparing that to 24 like I’m not going to putt great every single week. putting out here is very difficult. And um I think having the understanding that we’re working towards something more than anything. And like a good example is um going from the Scottish Open to the Open this year. If it was maybe 2023, I would have questioned some things that we were working on or questioned, you know, the technique we were going after that week and um you know, question my start line or something like that. And we showed up Monday for the Open Championship and Phil asked me how I felt like I did that the week before. I was like, you know, I feel like I did pretty good. I just want to make sure that I’m lined up where I think I’m lined up and then I’m starting the ball online and that’s what we checked on the putting green on Monday and it was kind of went through our normal routine from there. And then I go from having a tough week on the greens to to a great week. And so I think with putting you kind of got to ride the es and flows of of making a lot of putts and maybe not making a ton of putts and um you know, it kind of kind of goes like that. Um, you know, I think year in year out, the guys that are playing the best on tour are typically the ones that strike the ball the best. I think it’s a more um a more consistent skill. I think when you look at putting, when the closer you get to the hole, that’s when it becomes a more consistent skill, but sometimes guys just get hot and they hold a bunch of putts from 20 ft. And there’s a little bit of luck involved with that. And so for me, the area that we focused on mostly this year was trying to improve that inside the 10 to 15 ft range. I feel like I’ve been hit my start line a lot and had some good results on the greens because of that. And then sort of related to this, um you you you’ve said a few times that when you’re at a tournament, it’s not the time to be searching for your swing. You got to just kind of be you got to play with what you have that week. But you were also like a super hard worker like at tournament sites. I feel like on your putting, you do drills on the range and stuff. And I know there’s probably a difference in in your mind, but from an outsers’s perspective, like what is the difference, I guess, between you doing a drill with a shaft sticking out of the ground, like like are you searching there or is that more like a checkpoint thing? I guess I think a lot of it’s more checkpoints. You know, I have a routine that I go through at tournaments in order to get ready to go out and play. And a lot of that’s getting used to the grass, knowing how far the ball’s going, getting used to the speed of the greens, getting used to the amount of sand in the bunkers. and I have a routine that we kind of go through in order to get tournament ready. I do work very hard at tournaments, but I would say my days are longer at home for sure. I mean, the the amount of work that we put in at home to get here to a tournament site to be ready to play is is pretty extensive. And um each week when I step on the first tee, I I I’m focused on my preparation and being ready to play. And that’s what I fall back on each week is I step on the first te I tell myself I’m prepared. I’ve done everything I could to play good this week and it’s time to go out and compete and do our best. and Dave.
