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Scottie Scheffler’s 2025 Season proved Tiger Woods was right all along

Originally posted on HITC | By Lee Connor | Last updated Oct 20, 2025 8:03 AM ET

Scottie Scheffler put together another remarkable season in 2025, and with six more wins added to his record, Tiger Woods’ comments from a year earlier look even more relevant.

Scheffler carried his form from 2024 into the new year, once again establishing himself as the standout player on the PGA Tour.

He picked up two majors – the PGA Championship and The Open – and now finds himself just a US Open away from completing the career grand slam before turning 30.

Scheffler’s consistency with his irons has always set him apart, but this past season it was his improvement on the greens that made him even harder to beat.

And as it turned out, Tiger Woods saw this coming back in 2024 when he spoke about where Scheffler’s game could go next. Even then, Tiger knew Scheffler wasn’t far off becoming unstoppable.

Scottie Scheffler’s 2025 Season was exactly what Tiger Woods saw coming

Six wins, two of them majors. It’s a remarkable achievement in any year, and Scottie Scheffler made it look routine.

This past season has seen Scheffler add another layer to his game, with much of that progress coming from his work on the greens. And if you ask Tiger Woods, none of this success is by chance.

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Back in 2024, Woods said: “For Scottie, I think that his iconic foot movement belies what the club is actually doing through the golf ball. How stable it is, how solid it is. He hits it and if you stand back and watch the ball flight, there’s something so different about it. And he works it both ways, it goes both ways.”

“It’s just a matter of if he putts decent, he’ll win. If he putts great he blows away fields. If he putts badly, he contends so he’s just that good a ball striker he really is.”

Scottie Scheffler’s 2025 putting stats

Every golfer, no matter the level, can get better on the greens. But when a player already at the top of the game makes real strides with the putter, it tends to stand out.

That’s what we’re seeing with Scottie Scheffler. Back in 2023, he was ranked 162nd in strokes gained: putting. Two years later, he’s climbed all the way up to 20th.

Add that to his standing in the top 25 across almost every other putting metric – except for average distance of putts made – and it paints a clear picture.

Scheffler is building something very impressive. If his form with the flatstick holds up or even gets better going into next season, his numbers could be even more remarkable this time next year.

This article first appeared on HITC and was syndicated with permission.

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