Scottie Scheffler is the clear World No. 1 and coming off a dominant win at the PGA Championship. Actually, he’s coming off that dominant win and an even more dominant win at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson his start before, putting him an absurd 13 shots clear of everyone else in those two victories. It’s just not a fair fight right now!
But certainly Scottie is going to take it a bit easy this week after hoisting the Wanamaker Trophy, right? Wrong.
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As we saw when he won the Masters last year and won the following week at Hilton Head, Scheffler isn’t just playing in his hometown PGA Tour event this week, the Charles Schwab Challenge, for kicks. The dude wants to kick butt. And he showed that right away with an eagle to start his first round.
https://twitter.com/VC606/status/1925613395786481883
Not surprisingly, Golf Twitter all but declared the tournament over after one hole.
Lol at Scottie chipping in for eagle on the 1st. This thing might be over already.
— Sam Harrop (@sam_golf) May 22, 2025
Scottie Scheffler eagles the 1st hole Thursday pic.twitter.com/PryJBmHlki
— Nick Milosevich (@NickMilosevich) May 22, 2025
Scottie Scheffler with an eagle on the first hole to start the day. See you all next week at The Memorial https://t.co/dXMeHeKxC1
— Jeff (@jeffmcg88) May 22, 2025
Scottie Scheffler just holed out from off the green for an eagle on his first competitive hole since winning the PGA Championship. Is he any good?
— Flushing It (@flushingitgolf) May 22, 2025
Watching myself bet outrights on anyone but Scottie Scheffler this week.
— Geoff (@thefantasygrind) May 22, 2025
Hey Scottie Scheffler, on behalf of the golf gambling community https://t.co/9m4sB9nOI7
— Christopher Powers (@CPowers14) May 22, 2025
And you can’t blame them! Of course, there’s still a lot of golf left. But Scheffler moved from a ridiculous +250 pre-tournament odds to an even more ridiculous +140.
Congratulations to Scottie Scheffler on his win at Colonial.
+140 thru 1 on a Thursday is unreal. pic.twitter.com/vaQI5hyB9C
— Jut Picks (@JutPicks) May 22, 2025
There are still 71 holes left! But, again, it’s just not a fair fight right now. Oh, and actually, there are only 70 holes left, because while we were typing this sentence Scottie birdied No. 2. Good luck to the rest of the field!
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This article was originally published on golfdigest.com
