The 2024 PGA Tour season ends this Thursday with the Tour ChampionshipThe final tournament of the FedEx Series that will determine the best player of the season, where, so far, Scottie Scheffler has been the player with great dominance.
However, in the latter part of the season, The player who seems the most fit is Xander SchauffeleThe second player in the ranking and who had a much more successful last week at the BMW Championship and which has allowed him to get closer to his friend.
The dominance of both has been tremendous in this campaign. They have managed to win three of the season’s four ‘majors’, while the Masters is the biggest loss for Scheffler. Schauffele won the PGA Championship and the Open Championship) and between them they have a total of 29 tournaments where they have finished in the top 10 (Scheffler 15 and Schäuffele 14). Both also have Olympic Goldwith Scheffler achieving it in Paris this year while Schauffele achieved it at Tokyo 2021.
Even their last names are the same
Some similarities that also give rise to their nicknames which are confused due to their similar sound. However, their friendship was declared outside the field In every tournament it turns into a fierce battle And in Atlanta, the final battle could be spectacular.
Despite their rivalry, Scheffler and Schäffel are good friends / EFE
Due to the format of the final tournament, Scheffler, as number one in the rankings, will start with a total of -10 while Schauffele, two strokes away, will start with -8.. A starting distance of two strokes, which does not seem too much to face a tournament that will probably have more contenders such as the Japanese Matsuyama (-8) or the winner in Colorado this week, Keegan Bradley (-6) who comes in ‘plugged in’ for the outcome of the season.
While Schauffele already knows what it’s like to win the Tour Championship as he did in 2017, for Scheffler it’s still a pending matter After coming in as the best in the last two years, but without managing to close out the win.
A duel that will begin this Thursday face-to-face, Starts at 2pm US time, 8pm in Spain When the other 28 participants in the PGA Tour’s select and million-dollar final tournament will have already started.
