PGA Tour season comparisons: Scottie Scheffler vs. Jon Rahm | Golf Central | Golf Channel

The Golf Central crew compares Scottie Scheffler and Jon Rahm’s 2022-23 PGA Tour season stats and debates whether they got the vote right naming Scheffler the 2023 PGA Tour Player of the Year. #GolfChannel #GolfCentral #ScottieScheffler #JonRahm
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AND LIKE I SAID, THAT’S WHAT I THINK ABOUT WHEN I THINK ABOUT SUCCESS, CONTROLLING WHAT I CAN CONTROL AND A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH MY ATTITUDE AND APPROACH TO THE GAME. >> CONGRATULATIONS ON THE HONOR. WISH YOU THE BEST THIS WEEK. >> THANK YOU.

APPRECIATE IT. >> HOW ABOUT A COMPARISON? SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER TO JON RAHM. RAHM, FOUR WINS, INCLUDING THE MASTERS, ALL IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS. SCHEFFLER WON TWO INCLUDING THE PLAYERS. BUT 15 TOP TENS, FIVE MORE THAN RAHM, SO MORE CONSISTENT. SCHEFFLER WITH THE BEST

AGGREGATE SCORE AT THE MAJORS AT 18 UNDER, BUT, AGAIN, WITHOUT A WIN, RAHM VICTORIOUS AT THE MASTERS, TIED SECOND AT THE OPEN AND TIED TENTH AT THE U.S. OPEN. RAHM BY THE WAY WITH THE SAME SEASON AS SCHEFFLER IN 2022, WHEN SCHEFFLER ALSO WON PLAYER

OF THE YEAR, FOUR WINS, FIRST FOUR MONTHS, INCLUDING THE MASTERS. BUT NOTHING AFTER AUGUSTA NATIONAL. SO, DID THEY GET IT RIGHT? WHY OR WHY NOT? >> THEY GOT IT RIGHT. I CAN UNDERSTAND THE BIAS TOWARD JON RAHM. HE HAD THE BETTER START TO THE

YEAR, BUT THE BETTER YEAR PLAINLY AS YOU SEE IT RIGHT THERE, THE SCORING AVERAGE THAT HE HAD WAS ALMOST — A LITTLE MORE THAN FOUR TENTHS OF A SHOT BETTER EVERY SINGLE ROUND THAN JON RAHM. JON RAHM’S PLAY FELL OFF PRECIPITOUSLY AFTER APRIL.

JUST TO PUT INTO PERSPECTIVE HOW GOOD OF A YEAR IT WAS FOR SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER FROM A SCORING STANDPOINT, ONLY ONE OTHER PERSON IN THE HIFT STORY OF THEA TOUR AVERAGED BETTER OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR, TIGER WOODS, WHO DID IT SEVEN TIMES.

BUT WHEN IT IS JUST TIGER WOODS AHEAD OF YOU, IN ALL TIME SCORING AVERAGE, I THINK THAT SPEAKS TO THE CONSISTENCY OF THE YEAR, JUST TO BRING THOSE MAJORS INTO PERSPECTIVE. I’LL THROW THE PLAYERS IN THERE AS A MAJOR. HIS AVERAGE FINISH IN THE

PLAYERS, THE MASTERS, PGA, OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP WAS BETTER THAN EIGHTH. CONTRAST THAT WITH RAHM WHO WITHDREW FROM THE PLAYERS, AVERAGE FINISH WAS RIGHT AT 16. SO, IN A GREAT MANY WAYS, I MIGHT SAY RIGHT AROUND THE TIME THEY WERE VOTING, JON RAHM WAS

DEFECTING TO LIV AND SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER WAS WINNING THE HERO. THE HERO DOESN’T COUNT AS AN OFFICIAL WIN, AND WE CAN ARGUE ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THAT SHOULD HAVE AFFECTED THE VOTE OF JON RAHM, BUT I CAN’T HELP BUT THAT INFLUENCED THINKING THAT IT

INFLUENCED IT TO SOME DEGREE. >> I’M KIND OF OLD SCHOOL. I DISAGREE WITH YOU ON THIS. I TEND TO THINK TROPHIES RATHER THAN SPREADSHEETS OUGHT TO DETERMINE PLAYER OF THE YEAR. AND FOUR WINS INCLUDING THE MASTER WAS GOOD ENOUGH LAST YEAR TO GET THERE, BUT NOT GOOD

ENOUGH THIS YEAR. I THINK IT COMES DOWN TO THE POLITIZATION AND THE TIMING OF THE VOTE THAT YOU MENTIONED. THE VOTING ROUND FROM DECEMBER 1st THROUGH DECEMBER 15th, JON RAHM LEFT FOR LIV ON DECEMBER 7th, BUT THERE HAD BEEN A COUPLE

OF WEEKS OF NOISE ALL OF WHICH UNDENIED BY JON RAHM FOR THOSE COUPLE OF WEEKS, AND I THINK ESSENTIALLY THE MEMBERS DECIDED THAT THEY DIDN’T WANT TO GIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR TO A PLAYER REPRESENTING THEIR TOUR WHO MIGHT BE ON ANOTHER TOUR BY THE

TIME IT IS ACTUALLY HANDED OUT. YOU SAW THE SUBJECTIVITY OF THIS KIND OF VOTE FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN BROOKS KOEPKA WON A COUPLE OF MAJOR TITLES AND RORY McILROY WAS VOTED PLAYER OF THE YEAR BACK IN 2019. IT IS ALWAYS SUBJECTIVE. IT IS ALWAYS A POPULARITY

CONTEST TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. BUT I DO THINK THE TIMING OF THE VOTE WAS DECISIVE HERE, MORE SO THAN THE ACTUAL MERITS OF EITHER CANDIDATE. >> YOU MAKE A FAIR POINT. I’M LOATHE TO SAY THAT TO YOU. BUT NONETHELESS YOU MAKE A FAIR POINT. WHOSE YEAR WOULD YOU RATHER

HAVE? A GREAT MANY PEOPLE WOULD PROBABLY SAY JON RAHM’S BECAUSE THE MASTERS CARRIES SO MUCH IMPORTANCE GOING FORWARD, YOU REMEMBER THE CLUB, BUT FROM A BANKER’S PERSPECTIVE, FROM AN ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVE, WHOSE YEAR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE? WE’LL POP THESE UP?

JON RAHM, $21 MILLION OR $16 MILLION? >> CAN’T PUT A PRICE TAG ON A GREEN JACKET, PARTNER. >> WELL, FAIR POINT. >> WHY AREN’T WE INCLUDING RAHM’S — YOU PLAYED GREAT ON THE PGA TOUR AND THE SAUDIS WANT TO PAY YOU FOR IT.

>> EVERY SINGLE TIME SOMEONE MAKES A RUN YOU THINK, HERE COME THE SAUDIS. THIS DOES SPEAK TO THE CONSISTENCY AND I WILL MAINTAIN IT IS PLAYER OF THE YEAR. IT IS NOT PLAYER OF THE MOMENT. DON’T GET CAUGHT UP IN THAT. IT IS, LIKE, WHO PLAYED THE BEST

GOLF OVER THE ENTIRETY OF THE YEAR? AND FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, IT IS CLEAR AND AWAY, JON RAHM WASN’T SECOND IN SCORING AVERAGE. IT WAS RORY McILROY. CLEAR AND AWAY, SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER. >> ALSO NOT MOST CONSISTENT PLAYER OF THE YEAR. IN FAIRNESS, NO ONE COMES CLOSE

TO SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER ON THAT. OF THE SIX STARTS HE WASN’T IN THE TOP TEN, THAT INCLUDES TWO FINISHES OF 11th AND ONE OF 12th. THE GUY WAS THERE ALL THE TIME, BUT, AGAIN, A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS GAME ARE THEREABOUTS CONSISTENTLY. >> NOT LIKE HIM.

NOT LIKE THAT. >> IF SCHEFFLER PUTTS WELL THIS YEAR, AND STRIKES THE GOLF BALL THE SAME WAY, WE WILL NOT BE HAVING A DEBATE ON THIS SET IN — >> OF ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU COULD PONDER ABOUT 2024, UNRELATED TO LIV, OBVIOUSLY AT

THE TOP OF THE LIST IT IS WHERE AND WHEN AND HOW WILL TIGER WOODS PLAY, WILL RORY McILROY SORT OF END THAT MAJOR CHAMPIONSHIP DROUGHT? I WOULD SAY MAYBE 2A, 2B IS IF SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER PUTTS WELL, IF YOU JUST GO BACK SORT OF

REMEMBER WHAT HE DID LAST YEAR, AND HOW ATROCIOUS HE WAS ON THE GREENS, FINISHING NEXT TO LAST, HE WAS, HERE HE WAS AT THE CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE IN HIS BACKYARD, IN THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH METROPOLITAN AREA, HE LOST BY ONE SHOT AND LOST NEAR DOUBLE

DIGIT SHOTS OVER THE COURSE OF THE WEEK ON THE GREENS. AND THEN THAT WASN’T A ONE OFF. HE WAS HITTING THE BALL JUST AS WELL A FEW WEEKS LATER AT THE MEMORIAL AND WAS DEAD LAST. HE FINISHED THIRD AT THE CHARLES SCHWAB CHALLENGE. THIRD AT THE MEMORIAL, LOSING

EACH TOURNAMENT BY ONE SHOT. LOSING FAR MORE SHOTS THAN THAT ON THE PUTTING GREEN. YOU THINK ABOUT THE MONSTER YEARS THAT TIGER WOODS HAD IN 2006 AND 2007, FROM A BALL STRIKING STANDPOINT, THE ONLY TWO YEARS THAT A PLAYER EVER STRUCK THE BALL BETTER THAN

SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER STRUCK IT THIS YEAR, TIGER WOODS WOULD HAVE BEEN OFF THE CHARTS, BUT TIGER WOODS WAS SECOND IN STROKES GAINED PUTTING IN 2007. YOU LOOK AT THE TWO WINS HE HAD, YOU THOUGHT, WELL, MAKE HIP ONE OF THE BETTER PUTTERS IN THE

WORLD AND WHO KNOWS WHAT WE SAW AT THE HERO, PERHAPS HE IS ON TO SOMETHING WITH THAT MAN RIGHT BEHIND HIM, PHIL KENYAN, WHO IS JUST A WELL SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE PUTTING. >> WHAT CHANGE DID THEY MAKE? >> THEY CHANGED THE WAY HIS

PUTTER FLOWED THROUGH THE BALL. HE WAS LOWERING HIS HANDS, RAISING THE PUTTER, HIT IT ON THE HILL, LISTENING TO PHIL KENYAN TALK ABOUT THIS. HE’LL TALK ABOUT — HE’LL TALK ABOUT STARTING POINT, YOU KNOW, IS YOUR BALL STARTING ON THE RIGHT LINE?

DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SPEED? DO YOU HAVE THE RIGHT READ? IF ONE OF THOSE IS OFF, IF TWO OF THOSE ARE GOOD, IT IS