Scottie Scheffler: How does he compare to Tiger Woods after a second Masters win and can he continue dominance?

Scottie Scheffler: How does he compare to Tiger Woods after a second Masters win and can he continue dominance?

Scottie Scheffler has drawn comparisons with one of golf’s all-time greats after claiming his second Masters triumph in three years, continuing a run of dominance in 2024; Watch every men’s and women’s major live on Sky Sports Golf in 2024 or stream with NOW

Heading into last week, Tiger Woods stood alone as the only golfer to have won The Masters and The Players Championship – the men’s game’s unofficial ‘fifth major’ – in the same year. Now, he has company.

Equalling Woods’ iconic achievement from 2001 is not the only reason Scottie Scheffler, Masters champion for the second time after a four-shot victory at Augusta National on Sunday, has been compared to him on a run of dominance in recent months which has been rarely seen since, well, Woods in his pomp.

One person who has resisted drawing those comparisons so far is Butch Harmon, Woods’ renowned coach of 11 years. Yet while acknowledging Scheffler does not, at present, have the longevity of looming large over the sport in the way his one-time pupil did, the great golfing sage conceded he is showing every sign of being the heir apparent.

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“It’s pretty impressive everything he’s done this year,” Harmon told Sky Sports Golf. “There’s a reason he’s No 1 in the world, there’s a reason he’s won two Masters now, there’s a reason Scottie Scheffler is the man.

“He’s got to do it for 19 more years [to match Woods], but right now who says he can’t?

“What can he do going forward? He can only get better – and that’s a scary thought.”

At 27 years and 298 days old, Scheffler became the fifth-youngest player to win two Masters titles, which is two years and 199 days older than Woods was when he triumphed for the second time at Augusta – coincidentally, in the same year as he did his Players-Masters double as well.