Despite five top-10 finishes in his first eight starts to kick off his 2025 PGA Tour season, which began later than expected due to the hand injury he suffered on Christmas Day, Scottie Scheffler failed to find the winner's circle, his best finish in that stretch being a tie for second at the Texas Children's Houston Open.
Now, most players would be ecstatic to start a season with such results. But after the world No. 1 earned nine wins in 2024, a campaign that included victories at The Players Championship, The Masters, and the Olympics, we've simply started holding Scheffler to a higher standard, much like we once did with prime Tiger Woods.
Is that fair, given how ridiculously difficult it is to win a golf tournament? Absolutely not. But that's how dominant he's become these last few years. Perhaps that's why it may come as a surprise to some that Scheffler has never won three consecutive starts, which is what he's trying to do this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Scottie Scheffler has never won three consecutive starts on the PGA Tour
Two weeks after recording his fifth top-10 of the season with a T8 at the RBC Heritage, Scheffler picked up his first victory of 2025 with a historic win at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, shooting a ridiculous 31-under at TPC Craig Ranch to tie the lowest 72-hole score on the PGA Tour in the last 42 years.
And just this past Sunday, of course, the 28-year-old earned a five-shot victory at the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club, becoming just the third player ever with 15 PGA Tour wins and at least three major championships before turning 29, joining Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods.
Now, Scheffler will attempt to notch his first-ever three-start winning streak, which would make him just the third PGA Tour player to win three in a row in the last 11 years.
Rory McIlroy took three straight titles in 2014 with wins at The Open Championship, the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, and the PGA Championship. The most recent to do so was Dustin Johnson, who won the Genesis Open, the WGC-Mexico Championship, and the WGC-Match Play in 2017.
Scheffler has won back-to-back starts on several occasions now, two of which came in a five-start stretch last year when he easily could've won all five events.
After winning back-to-back weeks at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and The Players, the Dallas resident tied for second at the Texas Children's Houston Open, finishing just one back of winner Stephan Jaeger. He then went on to win The Masters and the RBC Heritage.
Scheffler is obviously the heavy favorite at the Charles Schwab Challenge and should feel fantastic about his chances to win three in a row for the first time, as he finished second at Colonial in 2022, losing a playoff to good friend Sam Burns, tied for third in 2023, and tied for second last year.