Tiger Woods makes feelings clear on Scottie | Golf News

Tiger Woods understands what it takes to be the world’s premier golfer – and he is totally impressed by Scottie Scheffler’s current reign.

Scheffler has held the World No. 1 rating since May 2023, spanning 132 weeks in a period of supremacy that has invited comparisons to Tiger Woods’ period of unparalleled success.

Woods, who not too long ago supplied a telling response when questioned about his comeback prospects, once maintained the top place for 281 straight weeks from 1999 to 2004.

When reporters advised that Scheffler’s efficiency has been “almost Tiger-like” Woods embraced the chance to focus on what makes the current golf king so outstanding.

“Well, there’s nothing you can’t not like about Scottie,” Woods remarked. “He’s one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet. What he’s doing on the golf course is just incredible, the consistency day in and day out, the strategy that he – how he attacks the golf course.”

“It starts from you can see him analyze it from the green back where the flag is, where he wants to miss a tee shot, what club to hit, where the wind is, what side of the tee box he’s to start off on.

“It’s really superb at how considerate he’s and strategic he’s throughout all the spherical. And on top of that, he would not have lapses in a spherical like most gamers do.

“He’s there present for all 18 holes and all shots played and that’s hard to do. To do that day in and day out with the grueling schedule that the Tour has and the players are playing now in more of a condensed season, and the big events that he’s playing in.

“I imply, he gained six instances and they don’t seem to be small occasions. He’s beating the best fields. So that’s one thing that I actually can recognize and I believe that I hope everybody else appreciates it as effectively because you just do not see this occur very often.”

When questioned about which aspect of Scheffler’s performance he finds most captivating to observe, he responded: “Of Scottie’s sport? Yeah, I really love watching him hit irons, the formed photographs that he hits, the trajectory, the window modifications that he has, the gap control, the miss in the right spot, the right spin in sure pin areas.

“These are all subtle things that mean a lot over the course of 72 holes. That to me is impressive. If you don’t have trajectory control, you can’t have distance control. To see him move it up and down in different windows, use wind, fight wind and control spin is fun to watch.”

Meanwhile, Scheffler has repeatedly maintained that comparisons to Woods are untimely. Following his Open victory, he acknowledged: “I still think they’re a bit silly. Tiger won, what, 15 majors? This is my fourth. I just got one-fourth of the way there. I think Tiger stands alone in the game of golf.”