Former PGA Tour winner Smylie Kaufman has made a prediction for Scottie Scheffler over Rory McIlroy for the upcoming 2025 PGA Championship. The pro golfer Smylie Kaufman thinks about the McIlroy vs Scheffler for the major championship and ‘leaned’ towards the World No.1.
You must know that McIlroy won the Masters last month and finished his decade-long major drought. The Northern Irishman ended his career grand slam with the victory at Augusta. Also, Scheffler said the ‘more rested’ for the PGA Championship.
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Smylie Kaufman has been the 2015 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open winner and has compared the two golfers’ form. He said that a five-time major champion must do his best on his ball striking, a little bit.’
Comparing Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler at Quail Hollow, Smylie Kaufman, Smylie Kaufman said the Smylie Show’s latest episode (at 59:24):
“It’s right even odds for me. I would probably lean uh Scottie (Scheffler) right now. Although it’s just hard to win… you know history shows it’s very difficult to win back-to-back majors that’s why I lean Scottie a little bit he’s a little more rested. But I think this week was a good week for him, talking about Rory (McIlroy) at Philly in the fact that he knows he’s got to go work on his ball striking a little bit…
I was out there with him all week pretty much saw him play just about every hole it felt like and he was a little bit off at times. And I think he talks a little bit how Houston for instance this year a very wide open golf course that he kind of struggled with picking certain lines off of tees and struggled to hit fairways he struggled to hit fairways this week and Quail Hollow course is a little bit more treelined kind of it’s shaped a little bit better and he drives it better hits more fairways there than a place that maybe you can’t really pick targets quite as well.”
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Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler’s 2025 PGA Tour season earnings:
Rory McIlroy:
- Truist Championship – T7 – $602,500
- The Genesis Invitational – T17 – $270,714
- Arnold Palmer Invitational – T15 – $349,000
- AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am – 1st – $3,600,000
- Texas Children’s Houston Open – T5 – $337,844
- Masters Tournament – 1st (Playoff) – $4,200,000
- The Players Championship – 1st (Playoff) – $4,500,000
- Zurich Classic of New Orleans – Team Event –
Scottie Scheffler:
- RBC Heritage – T8 – $580,000
- WM Phoenix Open – T25 – $69,197
- Masters Tournament – 4th – $1,008,000
- The CJ Cup Byron Nelson – 1st – $1,782,000
- The Genesis Invitational – T3 – $1,200,000
- Arnold Palmer Invitational – T11 – $451,250
- AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am – T9 – $535,000
- THE PLAYERS Championship – T20 – $240,250
- Texas Children’s Houston Open – T2 – $845,500
