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MASTERS WEEK COMES TO A CLOSE
What a win for Scottie Scheffler, who is without a doubt the best player in the world at the moment by some distance. The big question now is how many more Majors can he win?
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SCHEFFLER’S STROKES GAINED STATS
Scheffler gained strokes on the field in all categories at the Masters this week. Here are his strokes gained stats, via Data Golf:
SG: off the tee: +1.37 (2nd)
SG: approach to green: +0.78 (14th)
SG: around the green: +1.97 (1st)
SG: putting: +0.45 (22nd)
SG: tee to green: +4.12 (1st)
SG: total: +4.57 (1st)
SOME STATS ON SCHEFFLER’S EARNINGS THIS YEAR
Scheffler will take home a $3.6 million check for winning the Masters, boosting his earnings for the year to over $15m.
Here are a couple of tweets digging deeper into his earnings this year:
How good has Scottie Scheffler been this year?Based on the standard 10% cut for wins, his caddie, Ted Scott, has already earned $1.2 million this year.That would place him 54th out of 200 PGA Tour players and ahead of guys like Viktor Hovland and Rickie Fowler.Not bad. pic.twitter.com/D6bcaP95BrApril 14, 2024
Scottie Scheffler has now made $12,653,735 in on-course earnings alone over the last 35 days.That’s $361,535 per day.April 15, 2024
MORE FROM SCHEFFLER’S PRESS CONFERENCE:
Why Scheffler loves to win:
“I was sitting around with my buddies this morning, I was a bit overwhelmed, I told them, I wish I didn’t want to win as badly as did I or as badly as I do. I think it would make the mornings easier.
“But I love winning. I hate losing. I really do. And when you’re here in the biggest moments, when I’m sitting there with the lead on Sunday, I really, really want to win badly. And my buddies told me this morning, my victory was secure on the cross. And that’s a pretty special feeling to know that I’m secure for forever and it doesn’t matter if I win this tournament or lose this tournament. My identity is secure for forever.”
How Scheffler feels about his game at the moment:
“I feel like I’m playing really good golf right now. I feel like I’m in control of my emotions as I’ve ever been, which is a good place to be. I feel like I’m maturing as a person on the golf course, which is a good place to be.
“I think it’s hard to argue with the results of the last few weeks. I’ve been…
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