A Tiger Woods and Scottie Scheffler move that has pro feeling ‘very jealous’

Scottie Scheffler’s numbers, the ones you can access via a click, bear out his bag-wide abilities.

Tee balls? He’s fourth on the PGA Tour this season in strokes gained: off the tee.

Iron shots? He’s first in SG: approach the green.

Around the green? Eighth in that metric.

Putting? He’s 90th, but the work there has been well documented.

All of it pops the eyes, and Max Homaseemingly wouldn’t argue. But there’s something somewhat under the hood, he says, that is truthfully Scheffler’s best skill. So great is it that he says he’s jealous.

The popular pro was talking this week on the No Laying Up podcast — and you can (and should)  listen to the entire podcast in full here — and the Scheffler subject came up. Along with the stats, he’s won six times this season, including at the Masters, though host Chris Solomon noted that he thought Scheffler “is truly released from the result and is focused on the process.”

Homa jumped on that.

He called it impossibly hard to do.

He called it Scheffler’s greatest skill.

Then he told a story about Tiger Woods. At this year’s Masters, Homa and Jason Day were paired with Woods over the first two rounds, and Day and Homa spotted something unique from the 15-time major winner on day one on the par-5 13th hole, which was their day’s final hole after storms delayed the tournament’s start.

“Tiger hit a bad drive on 13,” Homa started on the podcast, “and it’s windy, and I mean, Tiger’s the best iron player I’ve ever seen — Scottie’s up there, but Tiger, just I don’t know how to explain it. And maybe he just — maybe it’s just our fondness of him, but like, he works it a little bit different. It’s just really fascinating to watch him hit golf shots.