The evidence was built. We know that the Scottie Scheffler effect is real. However, it is quite clear now that Scheffler, who won his 18th PGA Tour event on Sunday at the BMW championship, can intimidate just land with his presence in the final ranking of the Round.
Scheffler changes things even when he seems to be out of position. He can conflict despite his frustration by losing fire on the Greens. Scheffler comes out and wins golf tournaments with magic – like the chip he put on the n ° 17 in Caves Valley on Sunday to guarantee his victory. The world No. 1 just knows how to close the door on its competitors. Today was Robert Macintyre.
“He looked good when he landed, he looked good when he was driving. It was nice to see him enter,” said Scheffler about his shot on n ° 17.
Scottie. Scheffler. ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!
A smart birdie to take a two -stroke advance on the 71st hole @BMWCHAMPS! pic.twitter.com/nw6yitu0fa
– PGA Tour (@pgatour) August 17, 2025
An advance of 54 holes to four shots is never a guaranteed victory – the conversion rate is exactly 79.3% in the past 20 years on the PGA Tour, according to Athletics Contributor Justin Ray. This statistic should at least promise comfort in the event that the game of the leader empires. But a four -stroke advance is simply not the same with Scheffler as the closest man who flows.
Macintyre learned that the hard way to the second stage of the Fedex Cup playoffs, starting the day in Baltimore with an advance of four strokes on the world n ° 1. It was held at 16 sub-values, pulling towers of 62-64-68 to get there. He ended the day in second place, pulling 73 during his last lap, almost losing fire in all the categories.
In the first five holes of the final round, Scheffler and Macintyre were tied. The world n ° 1 has made it one under its first five holes. Macintyre came out of the doors with consecutive bogeys and finished the same section in 3 over-balls. And the difficulties only continued for the Scottish.
Scheffler then took an advance at a blow after the 7th hole and a two -stroke advance across the 11th, but the quadruple major champion did not run his race without temporarily opening the door for Macintyre along the way.
After Macintyre emptied a key putt on n ° 12, Scheffler missed in the short term and made a Bogey. Then, on the n ° 14, the Scheffler’s putter offered Macintyre another blow, while it was missing inside three feet, leaving a longer putt for Bogey. Suddenly, Scheffler’s advance on Macintyre was back to one.
In the following hole, n ° 15, Scheffler restored his momentum. Scheffler and Macintyre both stuck their approaching shots at close range. Macintyre missed; Scheffler is. The advance returned to two before returning to one after the 16th, where Macintyre sorted out.
Scheffler then did what he knows best: he took control of the tournament on the 17th par -3, draining a chip of almost 30 meters – in any case a standard hole, while the ball was going to the spit and fell into the cup. He entered the 18th with a two -stroke advance.
It was just appropriate for the world n ° 1 to win it in this way – sufficiently suitable for Patrick Mahomes to take to X, by writing, “Scottie is a crazy man”, with a series of emojis.
The victory at the BMW is the fifth of Scheffler’s season, including two major championships, the PGA championship and the Open. Scheffler also won this week without his shopping cart, Ted Scott, on the bag. Scott, who is at home due to a family business, was replaced this week by the Caddy of Chris Kirk, Michael Cromie.
Scheffler and Macintyre will meet again not only in the championship next week, but also at the Ryder Cup with Black Bethpage at the end of September. Macintyre did his first team from the Ryder Cup to Marco Simone in 2023, and his game this season will again make him a place in 2025.
Scheffler’s series of dominance has been described by many in the game as the nearest level of excellence and coherence that the game has seen from Tiger Woods. His name continues to be engraved in records, Win after victory. Scheffler has now finished T8 or better in 13 consecutive departures from the PGA Tour. This has not been accomplished since Tom Weiskopf in 1973, by department.
“I think it has a lot to do with the intensity I bring to each turn,” said Scheffler. “I try not to take days off. I try not to remove gunshots. ”
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