Justin Thomas is a huge admirer of the current world number one, Scottie Scheffler.
Thomas‘s golf on the PGA Tour has been made to look distinctly average by Scheffler over the past few years.
Just recently, Thomas spoke about how Scheffler makes golf look far too easy at times, and every other golfer is playing catch-up right now.
The 32-year-old has had plenty of success in his career already, with 16 PGA Tour wins to his name, including two major championships.
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However, Scheffler has already surpassed Thomas’s achievements in just three-and-a-half years.
The 29-year-old Dallas native has won 19 times on the PGA Tour since February 2022 and he has already racked up four major wins.
So what is Scheffler’s key strength that separates him from the rest? Thomas has a pretty good idea what makes the four-time major champion so good…
Justin Thomas stunned by unbelievable Scottie Scheffler statement
Scheffler seems to have a hoodoo over his PGA Tour rivals in the sense that many feel like he’s already won the tournament before the first tee shot is struck.
When speaking to Trey Wingo on the Straight Facts Homie Podcast, Thomas offered an insight into what makes Scheffler so good.
He opened up on how Scheffler’s interview just before The Open Championship this year genuinely stunned him.
Thomas said: “I found that Scottie interview that he did at The Open, I thought it was one of the coolest, deepest, most unbelievable answers to a question I’ve ever heard of, you know, like, winning a tournament and what it means and all that.
“And there’s a part of that that did resonate with me. I almost remember being, you know, a little like, man, like I’m not maybe as excited as I hoped that I would be like, I was excited, but is this it?
“It’s just you go on, you move on. It’s like, okay, I have a daughter now. I’m getting home, I’m getting up with her in the morning or it’s like I’m getting ready in a couple days for my tournament the next week and so on and so forth.
“So it is bizarre that with golf you just might go right onto the next weekend, and it’s like, do I celebrate. Do I not? Like, what do I do kind of thing.
“I think a lot of of what he said is why Scottie is as good as he is.
“Like, yes, he is playing a tournament to win it, just like all of us are, but it is not his baseline of a successful or unsuccessful week.
“And it’s like, that is truly buying into the process and the mindset of just like, I’m just going to play 18 holes. I’m going to play 36 holes, 54 holes, I’m going to play 72 holes and what my score is is what it is and I hope that it’s better than everybody else. And I have belief that it is better than everybody else’s score.
“It’s not like, did I win the tournament? Did I lose the tournament? It’s just such a fascinating thing.
“I think that buying into that kind of mindset is an unbelievably difficult thing to do, but it’s a great thing to do.“
Scheffler suggested that he lacked fulfilment from winning golf tournaments back in July and his comments very much divided opinion.
However, as Thomas said, the fact that the 29-year-old places priority on other things like his family life is probably why he is so good.
While Scheffler is a fierce competitor, winning really isn’t the be all and end all for him.
Thomas says what is so similar between Scheffler and Tiger Woods
Scheffler has been compared to Tiger Woods on numerous occasions in 2025.
While Scheffler has a long way to go before he can even start thinking about matching Woods’ PGA Tour and major records, the current world number one has certainly been doing ‘Tiger-like’ things over the past couple of years.
Thomas explained what makes the two golfers so similar.
“I mean, just their consistency,“ he said.
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“Their consistency is very, I would say, you know, similar, their ability to be in contention in golf tournaments and the biggest golf tournaments.
“The control of their golf ball, you know, I’d say Scottie is consistently the player who I’ve seen, hit their irons close to Tiger.
“I was, and I think he’d be probably the first to tell you that, I only got maybe a couple of Tiger’s good, you know, not best, but good years to where he was even able to play a season kind of thing.
“But, you know, just watching him, or even around like at Royal Melbourne when we were partners, that was some of the best golf I’d ever seen him play and getting to watch that live and up close was so awesome.
“I think that, you know, the similarities of just the focus, the intensity, and just, ‘I’m going to I’m just better than you are, so I’m just going to stick to my process and my game plan, and it’s going to be good enough’, kind of thing is where a lot of the similarities are.
“I think it’s tough to compare because I think Scottie doesn’t have the wow and the flair that Tiger did, the hitting it way off line, the crazy follow-throughs, just the acrobatic kind of stuff, because I just think Scottie’s just very (straight and consistent).
“He’s the kind of guy you play with and you’re in the scoring tent, and you’re doing your scorecard and they’re like, “Scottie, that’s 66.
And you’re like, ‘What?’
“You’re like, ‘you just shot 66?’ But that, you know, some people think that’s not a good thing, but that’s a great thing because he’s making it look that easy.“
Those words from Justin Thomas go to show just how highly-revered Scottie Scheffler is on the PGA Tour.
And if Scheffler continues to make things look easy over the next decade, perhaps then we’ll need to start having some serious conversations about comparisons with Woods.