Scottie Scheffler Dominates at the Memorial in Vintage Form

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00:00So once again, Scotty Scheffler, I guess you could say Smiley is on a heater.

00:05I guess we could say over the last five, six weeks, what's he won?

00:10Three of his last four starts or four of his last five starts.

00:13It's hard to keep up once he starts racking them up at this rate,

00:17but to win back-to-back years at Jack's tournament, the Memorial,

00:21and once again doing it in the fashion that he did,

00:24Ben Griffin played really well and had a chance to win the tournament too,

00:28obviously, but Scotty locked in again, Smiley.

00:32Yeah, it's back to regular scheduling for programming for Scotty Scheffler.

00:37He's somehow even statistically hitting some marks that he's higher this year

00:43than he was last year, which is kind of scary with the rest of the season

00:47as it plays out.

00:48He very well could win the next two major championships.

00:51He could win the U.S. Open.

00:52He very well could win the Open and have a chance for his own Scotty Slam

00:56heading to Augusta next year.

00:57That's how good a golf he's playing, and it's not that far-fetched.

01:00Getting to watch him firsthand this past week at Memorial,

01:03following his group for a couple days, you just wouldn't believe it, Mike.

01:07I've never seen someone just have this much control of their golf ball

01:12and be so elite at every single part of his game.

01:17And it's not just the physical stuff, too.

01:20It's the mental side of the game that's so impressive.

01:22He's able to just dissect every single shot as its own.

01:27And on a golf course that I talked to so many players last week, Mike,

01:32that just said, this place stresses me out every single shot.

01:36I feel like it's so hard to get committed, especially when you have small greens,

01:40firm greens, a lot of rough, and wind.

01:43And here's Scotty just like, eh, I'm just going to feather a little 7-iron in.

01:47No problem to a small green on Sunday.

01:50It's a 15-feet exact shot he's supposed to hit.

01:54It's phenomenal.

01:56And some people think it's boring to watch.

01:58I think it's fascinating to watch how easy he makes the game look.

02:03He really does make it look easy.

02:06And I just wanted to go look.

02:07I mean, he's plus 260 for Oakmont next week.

02:11No, he's not.

02:12Plus 260.

02:14This is a major championship that is going to be.

02:18And like you just said, these guys, I heard a lot of guys talking,

02:21and you were there, obviously, trying to prepare themselves.

02:23That was a good test for what Oakmont's going to be like

02:26in terms of the size of the rough and the different things.

02:29Like, I mean, come on, smile.

02:30He's just going to show up at Oakmont next week and smash everybody there, too.

02:33Not going to be that easy at Oakmont for him, is it?

02:37Well, I think the only thing that could hold him back is driving accuracy.

02:43If he has.

02:45Well, he's like, he's honestly, he's a 65 to 66% accuracy

02:52from a driver of the golf ball standpoint.

02:55The leaders on tour are right around like 70% as far as their ability to hit the fairways.

03:00We're talking about a player who's long and hits 65% of his fairways.

03:05That's what sets up his entire game.

03:08Maybe not quite as much as like a Rory who really, really hits it far.

03:11But because he is so ridiculously good at hitting his number, that's going to bode so well for him at Oakmont.

03:19I played the U.S. Open there at the last one in 16.

03:21And it's really a golf course, Mike, that requires you, first off, to find fairways.

03:27Because these bunkers, everything rolls to the lips and you basically have to punch everything out.

03:32And then greens that are rolling in the high 14.

03:35So these greens have so much slope.

03:37And players that can somehow manage, you know, the flight and spin into these greens

03:42where they can have uphill putts, you'll be able to make some birdies.

03:45But the guys that keep the doubles off the card are most likely to be the ones that are in the hunt.

03:51And Scotty Scheffler is the best at keeping the bogeys off the card.

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