Scottie Scheffler's Dominant Victory at 2025 PGA Championship

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00:00Keith, any time we are breaking down a PGA Tour event

00:03or a major championship that features Scotty Scheffler,

00:06we often look at the odds board and we ask a similar question.

00:09Because of how short the favorite price is on Scotty,

00:13where is the value elsewhere?

00:15But if you're betting Scotty Scheffler,

00:17you're happy with the results that you have seen.

00:1915 wins now since March of 2022,

00:23including two major championships.

00:25His first, not at Augusta,

00:27on Sunday in Charlotte at the 2025 PGA Championship,

00:32hoisting that Wanamaker Trophy.

00:35A final score of 11 under par for the tournament.

00:38He was the favorite at a 4-1 price,

00:40entering last week at Quail Hollow.

00:43He cashes that ticket.

00:45Keith, you were there in Charlotte.

00:46You saw the week that Scheffler had.

00:48What was the key to his victory,

00:50winning by five shots at the PGA Championship?

00:54Well, you know what, Ben?

00:55It's interesting because everybody wants it to be Bryson.

00:58They want it to be Tiger all over again.

01:00They want Rory.

01:01But Scotty just kills you.

01:02It's like death by a thousand paper cuts.

01:04He just doesn't make mistakes.

01:06He made one mistake all week,

01:07and he blamed it on a mud ball

01:08when he made double bogey on round one on Thursday

01:11on the 16th hole.

01:12I mean, he could have won this thing by seven,

01:14essentially, if he makes par there.

01:16He just doesn't make these mistakes.

01:19As the golf course gets harder and harder over the weekend,

01:22the wind was blowing.

01:22I was out walking with those late groups,

01:24with Bryson, with Rahm, with Scotty,

01:27and he just doesn't hit bad shots.

01:29He never puts himself in a bad position.

01:31And over the course of 72 holes,

01:33and he says it himself, he goes,

01:34it takes four days to win these tournaments.

01:36And he's learned that from the likes of watching Jack

01:38over the years or watching Tiger.

01:41I mean, those guys, they just don't run out on a Thursday

01:43and really worry about anything.

01:44They position themselves, they position themselves,

01:46and then they let the leaderboard gravity take over

01:49on a Sunday afternoon.

01:50And on Sunday afternoon, too,

01:52I just want to bring up this one topic with Scotty Sheffield.

01:54It didn't drive the ball all that well,

01:57and then we find out that a lot of these guys

01:59failed the driver test.

02:01The one thing that you can explain to us, Keith,

02:02like, what was that test entailing,

02:04and also, why did so many people fail,

02:06and how do they accommodate that?

02:07Because I saw Scotty in one of his post-game round interviews

02:11saying, you know, we have to figure out something

02:13that's going to work for everybody.

02:14What was the controversy, and what happened?

02:15Okay, so a top-line view on that, Donnie,

02:19is that every week, equipment is tempted,

02:22but they just select, like, maybe 25% of the field,

02:25and they select their equipment,

02:26and, of course, they're testing the driver.

02:28The driver faces are pushed to such a maximum

02:31as far as the spring-like effect,

02:33and, of course, these guys hit it in the same place

02:35every time.

02:36They weaken over time.

02:37Imagine you had kids, and they had a trampoline,

02:39and they go out in the backyard,

02:40and they just jump in the center over and over

02:42and over and over again.

02:44Well, it would stretch the center of the face,

02:46and these guys know, especially the ones

02:47that are over about 170 miles an hour of ball speed,

02:50like a Scotty, like a Rory, like a Bryson,

02:52that after about five, six months of using it,

02:56it's just not going to pass anymore.

02:58It's just going to become too spring-like,

02:59and we don't kind of know exactly

03:01when that's going to happen,

03:02so the USGA tests these guys as a third party,

03:05as an objective institution,

03:07so the PGA of America doesn't test,

03:09the PGA Tour doesn't test.

03:10They do it for them,

03:11and then they determine,

03:12oh, this face is too hot.

03:13You have to replace this driver.

03:15What's interesting to me

03:17is that it was a big deal for Rory,

03:20and he missed a lot of fairways last week

03:21going to his next driver.

03:23When Scotty handled the conversation

03:24in his post-tournament interview,

03:27he just said, yes, mine failed.

03:30Yes, I had a new game already,

03:31and yes, I used it, right?

03:33It's like two totally different tales

03:35of how you could handle that whole conversation.

03:38Rory never talks to the media about it,

03:39you know, just lets it all permeate the building,

03:42and Scotty just answers the question directly.

03:44It's kind of like the way they play golf.

03:45I mean, Scotty just goes out.

03:47Hey, Scotty, hit it right here.

03:48He does.

03:49Make the putt.

03:49Let's move on.

03:50We're going to play the next hole.

03:51It's a very interesting dynamic,

03:53but overall,

03:54this testing is going on all the time.

03:56The one thing they could improve,

03:57and I agree with Scotty,

03:58just test people once a month all the time,

04:00and I think it would probably quiet

04:03some of the controversy.

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