Scottie Scheffler might not be at peak Tiger Woods levels of performance, but his historical dominance is getting hard to fathom after an historic win at the 2025 British Open.
Scheffler basically just enjoyed a leisurely final round of The Open Championship at Royal Portrush where he secured the fourth major championship of his career. By winning the Claret Jug, the 29-year-old has now collected three legs of the career grand slam. And at this point, the missing link — a U.S. Open — feels borderline inevitable.
But Scheffler will have to wait nearly an entire year for his first chance to complete the slam with the 2026 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills.
That means there’s plenty of time to try and digest what Scheffler has achieved thus far.
Here are five wildly impressive and hard-to-believe stats about Scheffler’s historic 2025 Open Championship win.
1. A truly unfathomable Tiger coincidence
NBC pointed this out during the back nine of the 2025 British Open: Tiger Woods, of course won his first major at the 1997 Masters. His fourth major win came at the 2000 Open Championship, an historic six-shot win at The Old Course at St. Andrews. His fourth win came 1,197 days after he won his first major.
Scheffler’s first major win came at the 2022 Masters. Now, his own historic win at the Open clinches his fourth major win … you guessed it, 1,197 days after he won his first major.
2. Not just dominant, historically dominant
Golf stats guru Justin Ray pointed out this one during Scheffler’s final round: Scheffler’s four-stroke win makes him the “first player to win his first four professional majors (as they are now defined), each by at least 3 shots, since John Henry Taylor. Taylor was born in 1871.”
3. Par 3 wizard
Another one from the NBC Sports broadcast during the final round: Scheffler finished the tournament 6-under on the par 3s, the best of any player in Open Championship history.
That’s even more impressive when you consider he had to deal with the 236-yard brute of a par 3 that was the 16th hole at Royal Portrush. The rest of the field made 349 bogeys or worse on par 3s for the 2025 Open Championship.
4. Exclusive company
Here’s another one from Justin Ray about Scheffler’s latest laugher, a decisive victory that puts him in the rarest of company alongside golf greats Woods and Jack Nicklaus.
5. Blame Rory
This one isn’t just tied to Open, but it’s worth including. As The Fried Egg pointed out, Scheffler’s historic run of championship golf has coincided with his decision to switch to a mallet putter. That change came after McIlroy made the suggestion during an interview with CBS, saying “I’d love to see Scottie try a mallet putter, but selfishly for me, Scottie does everything else so well.”
Here are the numbers (from Feb. 18, 2024 and on), via The Fried Egg:
11 PGA Tour wins
Three majors
Olympic gold medal
The Open is a perfect encapsulation of the improved skill. Scheffler led the field in strokes gained putting for the entire tournament. That would have been unheard of in recent years, and that should put the fear of a golfing God in the rest of the sport if the planet’s best ball-striker is now one of the best putters, too.
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