2021 World Wild Technology Championship at Mayakoba: Top 10 power rankings

Scottie Scheffler debuted nicely at the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba. The Texan fired four under-par rounds (66-69-70-68) to finish T-18th.

That’s just a blip on the radar for a guy who was a big-time star as an amateur and continues to show promise as a pro. That first PGA Tour win appears like it could come any day now.

Scheffler’s contended at tournaments, both big and small, and was a solid contributor this fall on the winning American Ryder Cup team.

The 25-year-old amassed 15 top-25s in the 2020-21 PGA Tour season. That includes solo second at the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and solo third at The Memorial Tournament.

He knows his time well come and isn’t out there chasing a W. Scheffler could’ve gone out to Bermuda last week to try to pick one off, but would rather be challenged by strong fields.

“As far as not winning on tour I think if I wanted to do something to where I could win a random event out here I would go play a weaker schedule than I do,” Scheffler was quoted by Golf Digest. “For me, I like playing tournaments against the best players in the world and that’s what our PGA Tour’s about and so I like competing and I’m not going to change my schedule I’m just going to keep trying to put myself in position to win tournaments.”

Like a lot of the big names in the field this week, Scheffler comes in off a couple weeks’ rest following the CJ Cup. He fired bookending rounds of 66 and 65 en route to T-38th at The Summit Club.

Scheffler has no big deficiencies in his game and gained strokes in every category last season. He can hit it a mile and ranked 17th in SG off the tee (.515). The former Texas Longhorn was seventh in birdie average (4.39).

If he can dial back off the tee and keep the ball in play, there’s no reason why Scheffler can’t finally break into the winner’s circle at El Camaleon.