Scottie 24′ doc goes inside Scheffler’s year, including Masters adjustments and a post-arrest movie rec

To celebrate Scottie Scheffler’s dominant 2024 season, the PGA Tour released an hour-long documentary on Monday morning.

The doc, called “Scottie 24” and produced by PGATour.com’s Sean Martin, chronicles Scheffler’s wild year, which included nine wins (most notably his second Masters title and an Olympic gold medal), over $63 million in on-course earnings and bonuses, putting struggles, and a shocking arrest during the PGA Championship in May.

Among those interviewed were Scheffler; Scheffler’s caddie, Ted Scott; Scheffler’s coaches Randy Smith, Phil Kenyon and Brad Payne; TV analysts Trevor Immelman, Smylie Kaufman and Brandel Chamblee; and PGA Tour players such as Sam Burns, Collin Morikawa, Tom Kim and Tiger Woods.

The doc, now available on the PGA Tour’s YouTube channel, will also air on Golf Channel on Jan. 1 at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Scheffler’s putting struggles affected him more than he led on

Scheffler’s first win of the year came at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March. Before that, however, he hadn’t won an official PGA Tour event since the previous year’s Players Championship.

“Those losses, they hurt a lot,” Scheffler says of his first five starts of the year, which included four top-10s.

But it was the putting struggles that gnawed at him the most.

“Every interview that he got into was, ‘Let’s talk about your putting,’ and it was day after day after day,” said Payne, Scheffler’s mental coach. “And he’s working on it, and he’s very frustrated. We sat down around their dinner table, and I’m like, ‘Buddy, how ya doin’?’ And he said, ‘I don’t think I’m doing well.’”

After Payne’s quote, Scheffler is shown chucking a golf ball into the woods at Riviera.

Scheffler’s best friend on Tour, Burns, later talks about how he and Scheffler would work on their putting inside their rental homes during tournament weeks.

“[Our wives] would go to bed, and we would stay up putting,” Burns said.

After the Genesis Invitational, Scheffler would famously switch to a mallet putter, a move that would spark his record-breaking year.