Scottie Scheffler is the greatest golfer on the earth right now. Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer on earth … perhaps ever. As Scheffler has racked up wins and accolades over the past several years, his career—both broadly and statistically—has been compared to Woods’ time and time again. That includes Friday at Ryder Cup, but this time the comparison wasn’t a source of pride, but ignominy. Take a look.
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To be even eligible for this stat, you need to have achieved a great deal, but it’s well-known that Woods never matched his individual greatness on the Ryder Cup stage. In fact, his all-time record reads as something of an anomaly: 13 wins, 21 losses and three ties with a total of 14½ points scored across eight Ryder Cups. Few golfers put themselves in position to play as many Ryder Cup matches as Woods did while simultaneously being so ineffective in them.
Though Scheffler’s Ryder Cup career is comparatively young, so far it has followed a similarly middling arc. Entering Friday, Scheffler was 2-2-3 in seven career Ryder Cup matches entering. Leaving it, he’s 2-4-3.
Much like Woods, Scheffler will likely keep getting sent back out there despite his struggles because the possibility of him putting it together is too tantalizing for any captain to resist. If Scheffler continues to follow in Tiger’s spike marks at Bethpage Black, however, it could spell disaster for the American side who, despite their individual brilliance, have yet to learn what it takes to play as a team.
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