It is Scottie Scheffler’s world and we are all just living in it.
Scheffler, the top-ranked player in the world and PGA Championship winner this season, took the solo lead after the second round of play at this year’s Open Championship. It looked then like the clouds of inevitability were encircling Royal Portrush.
If that was the moment the clouds showed up then Saturday was when the rain started and did not stop. As the third round of play concluded Scheffler had amassed a four-shot lead over the field which suggests his hoisting the Claret Jug on Sunday evening is more of an inevitability than anything.
Scottie Scheffler holds the 54-hole lead/co-lead for the 18th time on the PGA TOUR and is 11-for-17 to date converting to victory, including his last seven attempts. He is 3-for-3 in majors with the 54-hole lead/co-lead.
— PGA TOUR Communications (@PGATOURComms) July 19, 2025
To date all three of Scheffler’s major championships (he has two Masters wins on top of this season’s PGA in case anyone forgot) began with him ending his Saturday rounds as the 54-hole leader. This does not exactly bode well for the non-Scheffler players in Northern Ireland.
It is preposterous how inevitable Scheffler’s victory feels, but that is the type of player he continues to prove himself to be. You may as well start talking about him as someone with only a U.S. Open left to claim for the career grand slam because that is what we are looking to be in for on Sunday.
Is Scottie Scheffler (-14) more likely to blow his 4-shot lead on Sunday or break The Open scoring record to par of -20?
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) July 19, 2025
Forget the world of golf at this point. Is there anything or anyone more inevitable than Scottie Scheffler across sports at large? We are a week removed from Carlos Alcaraz finally falling at Wimbledon and five months from the Kansas City Chiefs getting blown out in the Super Bowl. What are the contenders at this point?
To be clear we are talking about golf and specifically the Open Championship where anything is possible. But if anyone is proving to be the exception to the rule over and over again it is Scottie Scheffler.
We knew that when the week started and still talked ourselves into other possibilities.
