Players Championship: Scottie Scheffler's two victories at Stadium Course by the numbers
Scottie Scheffler has won the last two Players Championships and his statistics from the 2023 and 2024 events show how.
Scheffler led the field in the PGA Tour's Strokes Gained tee-to-green index, indicating his proficiency in finding the putting surface with approach shots.
But at the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, hitting fairways is crucial to finding the greens, because balls that settle into the thick ryegrass rough are difficult to hit with any degree of distance control.
Scheffler has had an answer for that, too. He led the field in Strokes Gained Off the Tee last year and was fifth in 2023.
Scheffler's scoring average in his two victories is 67.37. All eight rounds were in the 60s.
He is 37-under par (20-under in 2024, 17 under in 2023),
Scheffler has two eagles, 42 birdies, nine bogeys and 91 pars. One of the eagles was at the par-4 fourth hole in the final round in 2024 and the other at the par-5 second hole in the third round in 2023.
He has hit 74.1 percent of his fairways (83 of 112), 75.7 percent of the greens (109 of 144) and averages 28.12 putts per round.
When he does miss a green, Scheffler has gotten up-and-down for par 74.2 percent of the time (26 of 35).
Scheffler did not bogey a par-5 hole in either tournament and shot a cumulative 21-under at those holes (Nos. 2, 9, 11 and 16). He played the par-3 holes at 5-under and the par-4s 11-under.
The only thing close to Kryptonite for Scheffler at the Stadium Course are the par-3 third hole and par-4 fifth hole, where he has made two bogeys at each. Those four bogeys came in last year's tournament.
This article originally appeared on Florida Times-Union: Scottie Scheffler's two Players Championship victories by the numbers
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