The Players: Scottie Scheffler still wants to improve after securing No.1 return with TPC Sawgrass win | Golf News

Scottie Scheffler continues to be trying to enhance after profitable The Gamers by 5 strokes and returning to world #1; The 26-year-old says the collapse in final 12 months’s Tour Championship made profitable Sawgrass “loads sweeter”; Jordan Spieth expects his compatriot’s kind to proceed for a very long time to come back

Scottie Scheffler has issued an ominous warning to his rivals saying he nonetheless hopes to enhance after profitable at The Gamers.

Scheffler, whose victory at Sawgrass noticed him exchange Jon Rahm as world No. 1, completed 5 strokes forward of England’s Tyrrell Hatton as he claimed his sixth victory within the final 13 months.

The 26-year-old’s trophy-laden 12 months included the Masters triumph at Augusta Nationwide final April and two wins on the WM Phoenix Open.

He stated: “I simply hope to enhance. I simply attempt to enhance a bit bit at a time, to not suppose an excessive amount of and fortuitously I used to be in a position to see some good outcomes and revel in some wins.

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Scheffler sank a 20-foot putt to win the gamers over at Sawgrass on Sunday

“I feel I am simply comfy with my sport. I really feel like I am getting higher. I am undoubtedly studying increasingly more the extra I compete. I might say possibly I am a bit extra comfy realizing what I have to do.

“I am excited for a great laborious take a look at. I really feel like I can discover a method to par and cling in there. I just like the problem of tougher golf programs. This match seems like a championship main for me.”

Scheffler squandered a six-stroke lead with one spherical remaining eventually August’s Tour Championship and says the frustration makes profitable The Gamers “a lot sweeter”.

Scheffler added: “It is a actually robust sport. I had put myself able all 12 months the place I had an opportunity to win the FedExCup, and I wasn’t in a position to do it. On the time I went house, I used to be exhausted.

Scheffler: Tour Championship loss left me ‘exhausted’

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Scheffler was grateful and relieved after claiming victory within the PGA Tour’s showpiece occasion

“I used to be exhausted mentally and bodily, emotionally. East Lake was fairly troublesome for me to cope with.

“It was clearly very unhappy and troublesome and I did not anticipate it to finish like this. However the laborious instances make the great instances even sweeter.”

Of his success, Scheffler added: “I by no means actually thought of myself. I all the time tried to remain in my very own little bubble. I simply hold making an attempt to enhance myself a bit. I by no means actually appeared too far forward.

“I did a great job as a great junior, then I used to be a reasonably good faculty participant, then I performed properly on the Korn Ferry Tour.

“I all the time believed that I might do properly right here and play properly on the PGA Tour, however I did not anticipate that. It is sort of laborious to explain that feeling.”

Jordan Spieth, who completed tied for nineteenth at Sawgrass with six below par, does not anticipate Scheffler’s kind to drop any time quickly.

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Watch how Scheffler competed from the tough on the third gap of his remaining spherical

He stated, “I play towards [Scheffler] loads at house and he continually shoots very low balls. He’s arguably one of the best participant on this planet proper now. His golf is fairly wonderful. His prime 10 is off the charts. He simply performs so properly.

“He’s extraordinarily grounded. He has superb mother and father, an incredible household construction. [Scheffler’s coach] Randy Smith has been there for a very long time, with him eternally.

“I do not see that altering. He is in a great place to have the ability to hold doing that for some time.”

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