The Most Incredible Scottie Scheffler Stats

We all know that Scottie Scheffler is the world’s best golfer by a distance. Since the start of 2024 he has won 14 times. It is a remarkable record.

He made a sluggish start to 2025 as he struggled to shake off the effects of a hand injury suffered at home during the Christmas holiday. It meant he had to sit out the start of the season, and when he returned there were signs of ring rust.

It didn’t last, of course, and he went on to dominate. The comparisons with Tiger Woods in his prime are inevitable. He now has 18 career wins and his form in 2025 has been quite astonishing. 

In 19 starts he won five times, was second once, had 16 top 10s and never once finished outside the top 25. Oh, and those five wins came at the CJ Cup, The Memorial, the US PGA Championship, The Open and the BMW Championship. It is not so very long ago that pundits were saying he could never win on a links course. Scheffler can win anywhere! In any conditions.

He is first in strokes gained off the tee, strokes gained tee to green, strokes gained total and strokes gained approach to the green. His putting has improved hugely - he is now the sixth-best putter on the PGA Tour, and that will do very nicely when you are doing everything else as well as he does.

He is also first in approaches from 275+ yards, which makes par fives an awful lot easier. He is sixth when it comes to hitting greens in regulation, first in scrambling and you won’t be surprised to learn that he has the best scoring average (68.03) and makes the most birdies per round (4.61). He has birdied more par fours than any other golfer. He has made 62 consecutive cuts. It goes on and on.

But there is one other statistic that have caught my eye - which was shared by golf stats guru Justin Ray.

The best golfers are the ones who can shrug off bad holes. When Woods was dominating the game, he almost always followed a bogey with a birdie. At the 2020 Masters, Woods took 10 at the par-three 12th. Most golfers would have given up after that. He had no chance of winning - but he played the final six holes in five under par.

During the final round of the Tour Championship, Scheffler bogeyed the 5th hole and then birdied the 6th. And nine holes later, he double-bogeyed the 15th hole and then birdied the 16. 

It is called bounce-back and Scheffler is better at it than any player in 38 years on the PGA Tour other than Woods’ stellar year of 2000. Bounce-back is when a player follows a bogey or worse with a birdie at the next hole.

And of course the PGA Tour keeps track of this statistic. And it shows that Scheffler follows a bogey with a birdie 36.50% of the time this year. It is a remarkable statistic. First is Woods at 36.51% in 2000, which is just fractionally better. 

How good is Scheffler in this category? Well the man in second place is England’s Harry Hall, who bounces back 30.19% of the time.

His on-course earnings stand at $98.3m, behind only Woods and Rory McIlroy. This is all the more remarkable when you take into account that the American only joined the PGA Tour in 2020! He failed to win in 2020 and 2021, his first PGA Tour success only coming in February 2022 at the Phoenix Open. And that’s when the floodgates opened. He would win four times that year, including his first Masters title.