– There is a statistic about Scottie Scheffler that, once again, seems to go unnoticed, or at least is not sufficiently appreciated. It is the average strokes per round.
– As is well known, the PGA Tour manages two types of statistics in this regard. One, called Scoring Average (Actual), simply divides the total number of strokes by the total number of rounds played. The other, called Scoring Average (Adjusted), introduces a corrective adjustment calculated by determining the average strokes of the course in each round played. In both, Scheffler is currently the best, by far, of the 2025 season. But in one of them, the first, Scoring Average (Actual), the Texan has finally broken the barrier of 68 strokes on average for the first time in history, with a record of 67.99 strokes per round. No one had done it before, although he was close to doing it last year (68.01).
– The point is that Scheffler, as far as is known right now, is not going to play any more official tournaments this year. If anything, he would play the Hero World Challenge in December, Tiger’s tournament, but that event does not count in the official statistical counts of the PGA Tour. So this figure of 67.99 strokes can and should already be considered definitive and even regarded as a true milestone in the history of the PGA Tour and world golf. It is truly astonishing. In fact, the figure is even slightly better: if we divide the number of strokes Scheffler has taken (5,439) by the number of competition rounds he has played (80), the exact result is 67.9875 strokes per round, although the PGA Tour rounds it in its official statistics to 67.99. A thousandth more or less matters little: it is truly extraordinary.
– Scottie, who last missed a cut in August 2022, more than three years ago, has been the best in the pure and simple average strokes per round for three consecutive seasons (also in the other mode, Adjusted, by the way). In 2023 he was with an average of 68.26, in 2024 with 68.01, and in 2025 with the aforementioned figure of 67.99, which leads us to a crazy average of 68.086 strokes per round over the last three seasons. Let’s rub our eyes, because it’s likely we won’t see this again… Unless Scheffler continues to expand and improve his records, which for now we cannot rule out.
– It is worth noting that very few players have been able to be the best three or more consecutive seasons in this statistic since the PGA Tour made the count official (year 1987). Greg Norman achieved the hat-trick in 1993, 1994, and 1995. Then came the extraterrestrial among extraterrestrials, Tiger Woods, who led the Scoring Average (Actual) first for four consecutive years in 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002, and then chained another three in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Tiger’s best record was that of 68.17 strokes per round in 2000, another crazy milestone in its day.
– Still keeping the distances, at this point it is clear that only Scottie Scheffler can claim the label of SUCCESSOR to Tiger. They even resemble each other in the less good: Woods won in the Ryder 39.19 percent of the points/matches he played (14.5 points won in 37 matches); and Scheffler is currently moving, after his debacle in Bethpage, at 37.50 percent (4.5/12).
