With 7 success on the PGA Tour consisting of the Masters, his FedEx Cup success and Olympic gold, Scheffler has actually assembled an impressive season.

Scottie Scheffler’s triumph in the Tour Championship caps a great season for the world primary and brings a chance to assess the state of the elite guys’s video game.

Here, golfnews.co.uk takes a look at the scenario heading towards 2025.

Will Scheffler’s supremacy continue?

With 7 success on the PGA Tour consisting of the Masters, his FedEx Cup success and an Olympic gold medal, Scheffler has actually assembled an impressive season.

He has actually not been fazed by regular contrasts to Tiger Woods and showed he can provide under pressure. Like all gamers, he still makes errors however he has actually revealed a strong psychological capability to recuperate from them.

If there belongs to his video game that can still be enhanced it is his putting, however he is close to being the total gamer. Form can reoccur however with such perseverance and consistency, there is every factor to think his supremacy can continue.

Does he not still deal with strong competitors?

Yes obviously. Despite Scheffler’s pre-eminence, he has actually not been the only program in town. Xander Schauffele has definitely run him close for the title of 2024’s finest gamer, having actually recorded the United States PGA Championship and the Open titles. With Bryson DeChambeau winning the United States Open, all 4 majors were taken by Americans, implying there is a lot of competitors from within his own nation.

The likes of Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and LIV gamer Brooks Koepka all contribute to the United States strength. Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg will wish to kick on after a remarkable very first complete year on the primary circuit and after that there is the risk from Rory McIlroy.

Where is McIlroy at?

As the world number 3 and with another number of competition wins under his belt, there is no doubt McIlroy has actually had another great year.

Yet after a barren run in the majors that now extends to a years, he might be taking a look at it in a different way. His near miss out on at the United States Open was his most heartbreaking yet.

Unlike at the 2022 Open at St Andrews when he was captured by a rising Cameron Smith, this time he might just kick himself after 2 expensive missed out on brief putts down the stretch.

He has actually given that confessed that cast a shadow over the rest of his year and he might decrease his schedule in future. Nobody questions the Northern Irishman’s quality however his look for the magic significant formula continues.

How are things off the course?

Elite guys’s golf stays fractured without any obvious end in sight to the merger talks in between the primary trips and the breakaway, Saudi-moneyed upstart LIV Golf. LIV’s raid for Jon Rahm stopped working to speed up settlements and the PGA Tour pushed ahead with their ‘signature events’ series in an effort to fend off future defections.

The long-running legend has actually been extremely harming for the sport’s image and will stay so as long as it continues.

Could it impact the Ryder Cup?

Europe’s preparations for the 2023 occasion were interrupted by LIV – not least with an enforced modification of captain – and it might occur once again if Rahm, among their essential gamers, loses out on credentials.

The Americans might likewise be impacted however whether this focuses minds stays to be seen. The accumulation to Bethpage next year has actually currently started.

With Luke Donald long in location, Europe look well arranged this time in contrast to the Americans, who called Keegan Bradley late and might deal with a predicament if he likewise certifies as a gamer.