August 17, 2026 – Stop me if you’ve heard this before… Scottie Scheffler absolutely dominated a golf tournament. This version of Scottie powering past the field came in the first leg of the FedEx Cup playoffs, the FedEx St. Jude Championship 2026, by a margin of eight shots to notch his 21st career victory on the PGA TOUR.

Scottie became the third fastest player to reach that mark and now T-32 on the all-time wins list. Each of the 21 titles have come since the 2022 Waste Management Open giving him the most wins on TOUR in that span by 10 wins.

Let’s dive into it this win from every angle!

Switching with No Stone Unturned

Scottie Scheffler is exacting and meticulous as they come in regards to his equipment. He will be the first to tell you that there’s simply certain things about a golf club that make him tick. That type of precision explains why he has won as much as he has. However, when there are noticeable gains in performance…that’s when Scottie will make the switch.

In this case, the gains were there right away with Qi4D, but every single box needs to be checked before it goes into play.

“From the beginning, Scottie told us that Qi4D has been faster and it holds the spin better than his previous driver. Since then, we have worked relentlessly based off his feedback to give him a driver that perfects every performance variable that is unique to him. To his core, Scottie is a shot maker and the look and speed of the driver he won with today enabled him to be exactly that off the tee,” said Adrian Rietveld, Director of Global Tour Operations.

Scottie and our tour team perfected the build of his Qi4D from the four adjustable weights down to how it suited Scottie’s shot-making eye at address.

Shot making was aplenty off-the-tee in Memphis as Scottie finished the tournament 11th in SG:OTT at 2.251 and 12th in that category in the final round (1.273). During his record setting 61 in the second round, Scottie was T2 in driving accuracy hitting 11 of 14 fairways.

SCOTTIE’S Qi4D SPEC

• HEAD: Qi4D 8.0°
• EXACT LOFT: 7.8°
• LOFT SLEEVE: Standard Upright
• FRONT WEIGHTS: 13g toe, 10g heel
• BACK WEIGHTS: 4g toe, 4g heel
• SHAFT: Ventus Black 7X
• LENGTH: 45’’
• TIPPING: 1’’
• SWINGWEIGHT: D4

Scottie’s Best Putting Performance of his Career

The win not only marks Scottie’s 17th worldwide since switching to Spider Tour X in 2024, but also the best putting week of his career gaining +8.92 strokes on the greens. In total, Scottie made 23 birdie putts with 19 of them coming from 5+ feet, 12 from 10+ feet and 7 from 15+ feet.

For the week he made nearly 383 feet of putts averaging almost 96 feet for the week which was second in the field. He broke the 100 feet mark in the second round (110 ft 11 in) and final round (108 ft 5 in).

Scottie’s switch to Spider Tour X continues to be one of the most consequential gear switches in recent history. It is similar in nature to his switch to Qi4D driver that it came from months of calculated work dissecting every inch (pun intended) of his approach to putting to identify the best flat stick for his game.

That work is the gift that keeps on giving as Scottie has racked up wins at The Masters, PGA Championship, Open Championship, TOUR Championship, PLAYERS Championship and a Gold Medal.

“In testing at the end of 2023, we identified something that could help him know he was striking the ball on the center of the face. Instead of the sight dot he had on his blade, we started to re-introduce True Path and we were on to something in terms of his eyes and what he thought he was doing vs. what he was actually doing when hitting his putts. With a Spider putter there’s so much tech that you can see and also not see, all helping him hit better putts more often,” said Adrian Rietveld.

SCOTTIE’S SPIDER TOUR X SPEC

• HOSEL: L-Neck
• LENGTH: 35.5″
• SIGHT LINE: True Path with Full Line
• INSERT: Pure Roll
• LOFT: 2°
• LIE: 70.75°
• GRIP: Golf Pride Green Star Cord

Why Scottie Plays P·7TW Irons

As the story goes, Scottie was playing P·730 irons during the final round of the 2020 Masters when he was paired with Tiger Woods. Scottie watched Tiger hit his irons around Augusta National and left wanting to test the irons designed by Tiger himself.

After a testing session back home in Dallas proved next level playability without sacrificing distance, Scheffler put the P·7TW’s in the bag. Since the switch, he has won 21 PGA TOUR events, two green jackets, a PGA Championship and The Open Championship while setting records that have only been done by Tiger himself.

“What I noticed when I hit them at home was, I was able to hit different windows, so when I flighted it down, I could pitch it lower than I could the P·730. When I wanted to hit it up, I could hit it higher and I saw more variability in the shots and then the distance control was basically the exact same. I saw the benefits of being able to flight it down and keep it flatter and not have that overspin with a little bit more variety,” said Scottie Scheffler.

TaylorMade Golf clubs at Scottie’s Winning WITB

• Qi4D 8.0° driver (Ventus Black 7X)
• Qi10 15.0° 3-wood (Ventus Black 8X)
• P·7TW 5-PW (Dynamic Gold X100)
• Spider Tour X L-Neck

The Best Stats from the Winn

• Third fastest player to 21 wins in PGA TOUR history (168 starts). All of those wins have come since the beginning of the 2022 season and is 10 more than any other player in that span.
• Fifth straight multi-win season making him only the third player to do so in the last 40 years.
• Eight-stroke margin of victory is the largest by any player on TOUR since Scottie at the 2025 CJ CUP Byron Nelson (also by eight). He is the fifth player in the last 40 years to record multiple wins of 8+ strokes.
• The win is his ninth consecutive converted 54-hole lead dating back to the 2024 Masters (13-for-19 in career). He also has the second-best winning percentage with the outright 54-hole lead (12-for-15) in the last 40 years only behind Tiger Woods.
• With his second round 61, Scottie posted his 11th round of 9-under or better which is the most on the PGA TOUR since 2020.
• In that round, he made 11 birdies making him the only player this season with multiple rounds of 11+ birdies-or-better (Travelers Championship, Round 2).
• It was also his 21st round with 9+ birdies-or-better on the PGA TOUR since 2020 which is the most of anyone in that span.
• Scottie leads the PGA TOUR in the last five seasons in final round scoring average, birdie or better average and bogey or worse average.

Por REDACCIÓN