[PHOTO: Andy Lyons]
They’re going to play the Tour Championship next week in Atlanta and someone is going to be crowned the FedEx Cup champion and winner of the Tour Championship. They’ll capture a boatload of cash, too, but let’s be clear: it’ll all ring a little hollow. Scottie Scheffler is the best player on the PGA Tour, the best player in the world and possibly the best player since Tiger Woods.
Of course, we didn’t need Scheffler hunting down Robert MacIntyre from four behind at the start of the day to claim the BMW Championship to know all that. Or that it was Scheffler’s 12th-consecutive top-10 finish in a PGA Tour event. No, it was the “get down and stay down” gut punch hole out for birdie on the 71st hole, just when MacIntyre might have had a pulse that produced the kind of feeling only the true greats deliver.
Scheffler came up big on a day when he didn’t have his A game as a trio of bogeys would attest. Still, his game for the week clicked in many areas, starting off the tee where he drove the ball well enough with his 8-degree TaylorMade Qi10 with a Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft to rank second in driving distance, fourth in driving accuracy and second in strokes gained off the tee.
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Into the greens he was first in greens in regulation and fifth in strokes gained/approach the green with his TaylorMade P7TW muscleback-blade irons and third in scrambling and sixth in strokes gained/around the green with his Titleist Vokey wedges, including a 60-degree K-Grind SM10 WedgeWorks model he used for the decisive chip on 17.
Get down and stay down, indeed.
What Scottie Scheffler had in the bag at the 2025 BMW Championship:
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (Fujikura Ventus Black 7X), 8 degrees
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10, 15 degrees
Irons (3-4): 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
