The insane’ stat about Scottie Scheffler which explains just why he is so good at Augusta National

While Scottie Scheffler may not have won on the PGA Tour in 2025, there is a reason why so many people are going to be tipping the world number one to win The Masters for a third time this week.

Scottie Scheffler will be the favourite to become only the fourth player in Masters history to win back-to-back titles at Augusta National. The 28-year-old has never finished outside of the top 20 at the first major of the year. Meanwhile, he won in both 2022 and 2024.

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Of course, the start to the 2025 season has been a lot slower than many would have anticipated for the American. A hand injury sustained over Christmas delayed his start to the year. And it has not exactly been vintage Scheffler since his return.

Nevertheless, he has not finished outside of the top 25 in 2025. And he gave a bit of a warning to his rivals ahead of The Masters by finishing second at the Texas Children’s Houston Open on his most recent start.

Why Augusta National is so perfectly suited to Scottie Scheffler’s game
Scheffler also ended up as the runner-up at Memorial Park 12 months ago before going on to win at Augusta. And it seems that Brandel Chamblee is seeing enough to make him think that Scheffler is gearing up for another challenge for the green jacket.

Speaking on the Fore Play Podcast, Chamblee noted that Augusta could hardly be a better fit for Scheffler – as he also explained the one statistic which left him completely stunned.

“He’s not in the same form that he was in last year, but he’s playing better than he was playing when he got here in 2022 and won. Because the golf course fits him so beautifully, this golf course is so unbelievably suited for Scottie Scheffler – Rory’s got his work cut out to beat Scottie Scheffler. Again, Scottie’s a little off his game, but the first week out at AT&T, he was first in strokes gained approach. He was first in strokes gained off the tee at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, he was second around the greens at the Genesis, he was sixth in strokes gained putting at Houston. You put all that together, he’s got the second best scoring average on the PGA Tour, and he can still hit those nine windows that I was just talking about. You put all that together, you’ve got your work cut out to beat him. He is, if he wins this week would be the [second] person to have won three Masters in four years. Jack Nicklaus did it, he won in ’63, he won in ’65 and he won in ’66. So that’s how uniquely suited this golf course is and how wonderful said

You go back and look at what he did at Houston. He finished second at Houston last year, the tournament before he got here, he finished second this year. He played better in Houston this year. And by the way, Houston, as much as they want to say that they make that golf course like Augusta National, it is a weightlifting contest. There’s no trees, there’s no rough. You can hit it anywhere and there’s absolutely no rough. Stephan Jaeger won it last year, Min Woo Lee won it this year. Now both great players and all that, but not the straightest of drivers. It is not the best golf course for Scottie Scheffler.

“I’ll tell you one piece of information about Scottie Scheffler that should blow your mind, it blows my mind. In all the years I’ve been doing this, one of the pieces of data I look at a lot is distance from the edge of the fairway. So it just tells you how small someone’s miss is. For years, people who lead distance from the edge of the fairway are Colt Knost or Chez Reavie or Jim Furyk, they are 104-109 miles an hour clubhead speed.

Guys who swing upwards of 120 miles an hour don’t lead distance from the edge of the fairway. Scottie Scheffler swings it 120 miles an hour, and he led distance from the edge of the fairway last year. Now that’s insane. So he’s the farthest thing away from a bomber and gouger, the stereotypical bomber. Hit it out there nine miles, miss a lot of the fairways but they’re in good spots. This guy hits it straighter and longer than anybody as long as I’ve looked at that data. Nobody does that.”