Scottie Scheffler continues to rewrite the record books, with the world number one winning for a fifth time in 10 events at the BMW Championship this past week.
It appeared that Scottie Scheffler was going to need a superb final round to win the BMW Championship. He found himself four shots back of Robert MacIntyre after three rounds at Caves Valley. And Scheffler’s usually flawless iron play was poor at times in Maryland.
Scheffler was not perfect on Sunday either. However, he was able to do enough to win by two and consolidate his position at the top of the FedEx Cup standings heading into the Tour Championship.
Scheffler has become the first player since 1973 to register 13 top eight finishes in a row on the PGA Tour. And once again, it is almost impossible not to imagine where the 29-year-old will rank among the all-time greats when his career comes to an end.
How Scottie Scheffler’s 2025 scoring average compares with Tiger Woods’ best years
It is hard to argue that Scheffler is not the best player the game has seen since Tiger Woods. He has already won 23 times as a professional, including four majors. He is a US Open victory away from completing the Career Grand Slam.
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He is going to struggle to replicate his nine wins worldwide in 2024, but Scheffler seems to still be putting together one of the greatest seasons the game has seen – when you look at scoring average.
In fact, according to Brandel Chamblee, Tiger Woods only boasted a lower scoring average than Scheffler in 2025 on a couple of occasions during his career.
Tiger Woods led the PGA Tour in scoring average nine times but in only two years (2000 and 2007) did Tiger Woods have a lower scoring average than Scheffler has right now.
Scheffler is averaging 68.110 per round, almost a full shot better than Mcilroy who is 2nd in scoring.
— Brandel Chamblee (@chambleebrandel) August 18, 2025
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The top 10 players on the PGA Tour this year for scoring average as Scottie Scheffler leads the way
Just nine players on the PGA Tour in 2025 boast a scoring average of less than 70 this season.
Remarkably, the player in 10th, Hideki Matsuyama, is almost two shots worse off than the world number one.
PositionPlayerScoring average1Scottie Scheffler68.1102Rory McIlroy68.9653Tommy Fleetwood69.4534Harry Hall69.7575Russell Henley69.7966J.J. Spaun69.8137Sepp Straka69.8318Ben Griffin69.8559Robert MacIntyre69.89910Hideki Matsuyama70.088Credit PGA Tour
Incredibly, the gap between Scheffler and Matsuyama is larger than the gap between the 2021 Masters champion and Cristobal Del Solar – who is 158th in the standings.
Scheffler may not have the kind of charisma that Woods had, but he is unquestionably leaving a similar number of people baffled with the quality of his performances and his sheer ability to win even when he does not appear to have his A game.
