[Photo: Orlando Ramirez]
Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Scottie Scheffler.
With his win at the American Express tournament, Scheffler not only got his 2026 off to a winning start, but joined the two legends as the only players with at least 20 wins and four major titles before turning 30 years old.
It’s often said that numbers don’t tell the true story of a sporting event. In the case of Scheffler’s surgical display in the California desert, however, they very much tell the true story.
Scheffler was as dominant statistically as he was on the leaderboard. He ranked fourth in strokes gained/off the tee and third in driving distance. Into the greens he ranked sixth in greens in regulation. On the greens he was first in putts per green in regulation. Forgive him for only being T-13 in scrambling – he had only 11 tries and converted nine of them.
In all, Scheffler made 32 birdies (to top the field) with his TaylorMade Spider Tour X X1 putter. The club, which he put into play in 2024, is half an inch longer than his previous one and has an L-Neck hosel and TaylorMade’s True Path alignment aid with a full line sightline on top. The putter has 3 degrees of loft with a lie angle of 72 degrees. The face is an 80/20 TaylorMade Pure Roll insert, and the grip is a Golf Pride pistol.
Off the tee Scheffler wielded his 8-degree TaylorMade Qi10 with a Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft. Into the greens, Scheffler uses TaylorMade P7TW irons, a muscleback blade model based off Tiger Woods’ irons.
And now he joins Woods and Nicklaus in some pretty heady company.
What Scottie Scheffler had in the bag at the 2026 American Express:
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (Fujikura Ventus Black 7X), 8 degrees
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10, 15 degrees
7-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D, 21 degrees
Irons (4): Srixon ZU85; (5-PW): TaylorMade P7TW
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM8 (50, 56 degrees); Titleist Vokey SM10 WedgeWorks (60 degrees)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X X1
