It is a good distance from right here to mid-July, however Scottie Scheffler has a possibility to do one thing Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer by no means did. Scheffler, who received the Masters previous this month, has the chance to say a grand slam — all 4 majors in a season — and erase any doubt about who owns the post-Tiger generation.
Proper from the soar: Sure, that is ridiculously early hypothesis. Technically, each and every participant who wins the Masters has the danger to drag off a grand slam. However with all due appreciate to the Danny Willetts and Trevor Immelmans of the arena, few inexperienced jacket winners — and none since Woods’ early-00s domination — have rolled back off Magnolia Lane on this sort of heater.
Scheffler has received 10 instances on Excursion within the remaining two-plus years. He is received two instances up to now two weeks. He is received 4 of his remaining 5 occasions, and positioned T2 within the 5th. He is driving a streak of 40 consecutive rounds of par or greater, courting again to the 2023 Excursion Championship. And he is beating the most efficient on the earth whilst he is doing it; in line with the PGA Excursion, in his remaining seven victories, 8 or extra of the highest 10 ranked avid gamers on the earth were within the discipline.
The ones are the sorts of numbers that make you assume one thing particular could be going down right here. His document on the PGA Excursion is robust — 3 T8-or-better finishes, together with remaining yr’s T2, in opposition to one ignored lower. That is just right sufficient to position him at +350 odds — now not slightly Scottie-vs.-the-field territory, however inside of sight of it.
At BetMGM, Scheffler is recently +4000 — that is 40-1 — to win all 4 majors. That is an absurdly low line, most probably partially to offer protection to the home in opposition to informal bettors parachuting in the best way they used to for Tiger Woods. He is -135 to stick at just one main this yr, however +160 — quite greater than even odds — to win no less than yet one more main, and +750 to win 3 of the 4.
Profitable a 2nd main proper after the primary of the season is not unattainable, however it is tricky. During the last 5 years, simplest some of the then-current inexperienced jacket winners even threw a scare into the leaderboard. When they received the Masters that yr, Woods (2019) ignored the lower, Dustin Johnson (2020) positioned T2, Hideki Matsuyama (2021) positioned T23, Scheffler (2022) ignored the lower, and Jon Rahm (2023) positioned T50.
Probably the most notable contemporary run at a grand slam got here in 2015, when Jordan Spieth received the Masters and the U.S. Open after which ignored out on a playoff within the Open Championship by means of a stroke. (The PGA Excursion used to be held in August that yr.) Spieth had a two-month ruin between the Masters and the U.S. Open, and used to be taking part in one of the most best possible golfing of the generation — he received 5 instances that season — however even he could not arrange to near the deal.
In case you are in search of particular Scheffler negatives, there may be this: he hasn’t received a match in any yr after April. His document within the Open Championship is unremarkable — just one T8, and finishes out of doors the highest 20 the remaining two years. Plus, there may be the small topic of the truth that he is because of change into a father any day now, with the entire most probably “distraction” that can carry. (Sure, a kid is a life-changing blessing, however bettors don’t seem to be large on that more or less sentimentality.)
Glance, the chances are superb that Scheffler may not take down the grand slam this season. However how a lot are you prepared to guess in opposition to him?