The Los Angeles Dodgers were the best team in baseball last year and proved it by winning the World Series. Kansas City chiefs may not have won the Super Bowl, but they got there. And four heads of standard n ° 1 reached the Male Four Four for the second time in the history of the support support.
These chalky results should make golf fans salivate on the potential of a similar result during this week’s masters tournament.
Scottie Scheffler and Rory McILroy are the two best golfers in the world, the most prolific winners in the past year and, by coincidence, the favorites of Augusta National. Scheffler is currently at +450 to win the event in Betmgm, while McILroy arrives just behind him at +650. The next player closest to the Paris table? Collin Morikawa, at +1400. In the spirit of the dimensions, it is clearly Scottie and Rory against the ground.
Of course, that does not mean either, but any discussion on predictions for the week should start with a simple request: “Scottie or Rory?”
The answer to this question will probably depend on what you appreciate the most.
If you prefer the history of the recent form courses, you will probably give the advantage to Scheffler. If you promote booming training on a specific iron game, McILroy could be your guy.
However, there is more.
Your selection of one of the two best golfers in the world on the other does not only say something about what you think of their games. In the end, that said something about you.
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Let’s start with Scheffler. If it is your choice this week, you are probably the guy who does not believe that something can happen until you see it with your own eyes. You have a predilection to roll with favorites on outsiders because – as you say to people – these guys are favored for a reason. And you prefer to spend your money hard earned in first -rate stocks than a guy who is a definition of madness – you know, do the same thing again and again and expect different results.
Look, there is a lot to say to invest in a known goods. Scheffler is the defending champion, and he claimed the green jacket in two of the last three years. It is also freshly out of a campaign of nine 2024 victories, including an Olympic gold medal and the title of the Fedex Cup.
If his elite curriculum vitae does not impress you, he also tends in the right direction. After off -season surgery, he failed to win during his first five departures of the year, often carrying the emotional assessment on his face. In front of the recent Texas Children’s Houston Open – the last start of the tournament for Scheffler and McILroy before the Masters – there was a chance that another disappointing performance of the first and a victory of the latter could move Rory in pole position on the advice of Oddsmakers.
Instead, Scottie finished in a part of second place, taking a momentum with him on Magnolia Lane.
Very well, let’s now do McILroy. If it is your guy this week, you are probably the type that dreams big and believes that everything can happen if you really put your mind. You consider the nearby calls and the quasi-me and the heartbreakers who are part of the scar fabric that goes in the experience of creating a champion. And you trust the performance more than the results, based on recent statistical data to train your conclusion on historical victories.
Over the past three years, each masters winner had already won several events before arriving in Augusta. Only McILroy has this honor this year, with impressive triumphs both in Pebble Beach and to the players. He directs the PGA Tour in the blows won: Total, which is the largest performance barometer at the highest level of the game. It is difficult to argue that it has always been better prepared for the first major championship of the year than this time.
Oh, and during his career, he tried almost all the different ways of preparing. He made several screening trips in advance; He did not make any recovery trip beforehand. He competed the previous week, competed two weeks ago and closed it for a while. If you can think, he tried it.
Spoiler alert: None of this worked – at least not to the extent that he wanted. Rory is now 0 for 16 by trying to win the masters, and the failures are prominent. In 2011, he led in the last nine, only to hang a tee shot in cabins, display a 43 inward and finish in a share of 15th place. In 2022, he published a miraculous final 64, but it was too little, too late, when Scheffler fled with the title.
Overall, he has four top-five, seven TOP-10 and 12 TOP-25, but still continues his personal white whale, which-oh, passing-would also make him the sixth player to capture the great career slam.
There is a good chance that one of the two best golfers in the world will slip his arms into a green jacket in the sweet varnish of Sunday evening just outside the national clubhouse in Augusta. Even if we restricted the champion in chalk, the question that everyone asks remains: “Scottie or Rory?”
The way you answer, the way you bet and how you root can have much more to do with you than to them.
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