{"id":6065,"date":"2026-08-18T01:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/6065\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T01:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T01:27:15","slug":"scottie-scheffler-wins-fedex-st-jude-championship-in-dominating-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/6065\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler wins FedEx St. Jude Championship in dominating fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"

There have been fewer opportunities to really say it this season, but it is good to remember that right now professional golf is still Scottie Scheffler\u2019s world. Everyone else is simply living in it.<\/p>\n

The world number one suffocated the field at the FedEx St. Jude Championship as the FedEx Cup Playoffs began\u2026 so much so that Scottie almost doubled the second place score that Si Woo Kim posted.<\/p>\n

Scottie finished at 17-under (Si Woo was 9-under to be clear) as he picked up his 21st career PGA Tour victory.<\/p>\n

\"MEMPHIS,<\/p>\n

MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE – AUGUST 16: Scottie Scheffler of the United States celebrates with the trophy after winning during the final round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship 2026 at TPC Southwind on August 16, 2026 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Photo by Stacy Revere\/Getty Images) Getty Images<\/p>\n

In the process of winning, Scottie did some things that only Scottie does:<\/p>\n

This was the first eight-stroke margin of victory (or larger) since\u2026 Scottie (2025 CJ CUP)He is now just the fifth player over the last 40 years to record multiple wins of such kindIt is his fifth consecutive season with multiple PGA Tour winsHe has made 17 cuts in 18 starts this season<\/p>\n

Every now and then something happens with Scottie to where we drop our jaws and simply wonder. This is one of those times.<\/p>\n

We will see what happens as the playoffs continue on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There have been fewer opportunities to really say it this season, but it is good to remember that…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1595,15,22,13],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-fedex-st-jude-championship","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-scottie-scheffler","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}