REACTION_ Scottie Scheffler wins The Open, closes in on career Grand Slam

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Zolak and Bertrand, with Joe Murray and Paul Perillo filling in, provide their thoughts about Scottie Scheffler winning The Open before exploring how he compares with Tiger Woods.   Thumbnail photo courtesy of USA Today Sports.

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00:00you guys still do golf on this show no no did you put it in the headline did he even make the

00:04headline here it's kind of my overall point here on this and i know scotty scheffler uh funny thing

00:09is he's the one that got arrested right taken into jail and then winning and all that huh falsely

00:14falsely correct but like that's like the most amusing thing i find from golf like i know he's

00:19a good golfer and i know there's some numbers here during a stretch that are comparable to

00:23tiger woods but man when the british open back in the day was on your you knew the top 10 on

00:27the leaderboard i got your leaderboard here from yesterday let's pull to that so scotty

00:34scheffler obviously finished had what a four stroke lead one by four strokes uh we know who he is you

00:40know who came in second joe usually be tiger and um say phil or um sergio garcia back in the day maybe

00:47vj singh ernie else rory mccleroy no no he was like fourth actually it was american dominated

00:53that was uh chris gotter up i think a guy guy by the last name of english never heard of him

00:58yep harris harris english uh for a while another guy came in third gotter up from he's he's an up

01:05and comer he's new never heard of him who came in fourth here lee li uh he's from china i don't know

01:10much about him uh next guy fitzpatrick u.s open champion okay next guy clark wyndham clark

01:18yeah he's pretty good he's a guy that you've never heard of i have to go americans i have to go all the

01:22number nine to where xander shoffley i've heard of him okay bryson de chambeau we're getting a

01:28mcintyre and then mcelroy came in 14th uh it's it's dying on that list it's dying no golf style

01:37see i think it's the opposite really absolutely the opposite yeah i could i didn't want no one

01:42tiger woods carry the water to make all these guys who they are absolutely so now this particular

01:46question that people are trying to say that scotty scheffler is doing tiger woods things

01:51i think that golf and golf enthusiasts are trying to create that i don't think he's anywhere near that

01:58level yet but i don't know if you have the numbers in front of you joe there was like a

02:0580 tournament stretch for scheffler and for woods over this over the same amount of time

02:12scheffler is outdoing him now the the thing that made tiger tiger was that he did it for

02:19so long he was the dominant player in the game for whatever 15 years 20 years i don't know if

02:27scheffler has the desire to do that listening to some of his uh comments about what you know the

02:32the balance is that the priorities right yeah and i don't blame him for that at all i don't care i

02:36thought it was an honest answer yeah it was i thought it was an extremely honest answer and i don't find

02:41much to be critical almost respected more than he could go out rake the way he did i'd be surprised if

02:45he was able to do this for as long as tiger did based on those comments is your take that he's

02:50got the same numbers as tiger because the competition isn't as strong yeah that's what i'm saying i think

02:56i don't you're not getting i think the competition is ridiculous you do yeah i think there's so many

03:01good golfers they just you don't you don't know them because there's so many different guys that

03:05jj spawn won the u.s open a guy that maybe that's the case because the guys i rattled off 20 years

03:11ago they're always there on the leaderboard under 10 yeah like but those were the only guys

03:16do you know what i mean yeah like now like i i think tiger dealt with you know this is an argument

03:23that felger makes all the time for jack nicholas and you know if you're a certain age it was jack

03:28nicholas and our own parmer but the same guy you know it was gary player and you know leecher vino

03:34the same guy tom weiskopf tom watson tom kite was great norman back in the day all of them man

03:39like this because they weren't a hundred options now yeah there's the guys that you heard of like

03:44mcelroy and shoffley and those guys uh you know bryson dechambeau uninspiring leaderboard

03:49it's another uninspiring dechambeau was in the top 10 too right yeah like rory dechambeau

03:55shoffley four americans there's so many good players now that it can be a different guy every week

04:03how much did you watch of the open so i watched a lot of it but the the real reason why i wasn't

04:08as glued to it is because he made a mockery out of it well he started slow and then had the then

04:14blew everybody yeah he had a four shot lead going into yesterday the game was over well day one he

04:19was in second place yeah but but i mean like heading into the sunday like that you want to get up and

04:24watch a it was over and then in case you thought there was a one back night when they're going at it

04:29toe-to-toe he he goes out and birdies hole one like it like this is all it's over the guy's too

04:35good he's not going to blow a four-stroke lead so you that what you were mentioning is this is a per

04:40data golf all right they went back to tiger's run from 02 to 05 um he had 79 events 18 wins he won

04:48four majors scheffler from 22 to 25 81 events 20 wins four majors i mean that's tiger-like numbers

04:59right but now i'm actually curious about zoe's take on 80 tournament stretch yes what 80 tournaments

05:06can scheffler do that for the next 80 tournaments and then the next day because that's what tiger did

05:12you're gonna bring me right you're absolutely right for for over a decade it's sort of you need

05:17that good versus evil to him versus phil or you know him versus uh sergio i want to say it's

05:22dechambeau but he's just i know i guess maybe there isn't that guy yet you know rory boy spieth

05:28mr mr all world this dude hasn't registered on a spieth and thomas have just terrible sort of

05:33fallen off those two guys look like they were going to be the big thing that's why i'm a little reluctant

05:37to say that scheffler is going to be the next tiger it's too easy i've seen a lot of these guys sort

05:42of emerge is you know brooks kepka you know these guys emerge and then they they're like flashes in

05:47the pan but to the the other part that i will push back on zoe is there's a million guys that are

05:53really really good now you don't know who they all are i don't know any of them and i don't either i

05:57don't i don't know any of them but these guys are really really good now now that i've played hardy's

06:03side of the street this is this is this is my plea to hardy to get hardy to come up the part that i like

06:09that you said the most that resonated with me is that can he do this for another 80 right because

06:14tiger was so consistent for so long time after time after time and scheffler has been as as dominant

06:20as tiger for whatever what is that a five-year span that 80 tournaments is that a five-year span yep

06:26uh three-year span actually a year uh let me just double check on that because i i saw when i saw it i

06:32was like i'm gonna throw this in slack uh yeah it was a 22 to 25 yeah and then tigers was uh 02 to 05

06:38so almost almost a five-year four-year four-year span almost yeah so can he do that over and over

06:46again that'd be interesting uh but again the competition's getting tougher so i would bet no

06:53based off the take but he does uh john's in lester hey john hey john i just wanted to go like we're

07:02talking about these stats and obviously like you're saying scheffler keeping up with tiger but

07:05tiger did things that were on i mean at one point he won seven golf tournaments in a row not even

07:10just in a year in a row so i really don't think that there's anybody ever that's going to be able

07:14to touch tiger even as good as scotty as well we knew tiger was great but like every tournament you

07:18almost had a tiger moment you know out of the bunker at 16 like you know uh playing on the one leg

07:25where he tore the acl see but this is the thing what's what's what's what is this guy's moment

07:30but you know what tiger getting arrested he got arrested no you're right yeah i got you on that

07:34what is my point about how much better they are now when tiger played when tiger burst onto the scene

07:40nobody could hit it like him about him hitting the club they had to they had to change the whole

07:45course at augusta to tiger proof it because he was too long he's not long anymore they all hit it

07:52like that he shimbo hits the crap out of the ball they all do that now if you're not hitting it 350

07:56you're not hitting it like they're they're all hitting it the way tiger hit it that's i would

08:01push back on no one's ever going to do it again i love the poly pushback someone's gonna like it

08:07someone's gonna do it i don't listen tiger's the greatest in terms of those numbers someone's gonna

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