The clubs Scottie Scheffler used to win the BMW Championship

They’re going to play the Tour Championship this week in Atlanta and someone is going to be crowned the FedEx Cup champion and winner of the Tour Championship. They’ll capture a boatload of cash, too, but let’s be clear: it’ll all ring a little hollow. Scottie Scheffler is the best player on the PGA Tour, the best player in the world and possibly the best player since Tiger Woods.

Of course, we didn’t need Scheffler hunting down Robert MacIntyre from four back at the start of the day to claim the BMW Championship to know all that. Or that it was Scheffler’s 12th-consecutive top-10 finish in a PGA Tour event. No, it was the “get down and stay down” gut punch hole out for birdie on the 71st hole, just when MacIntyre might have had a pulse that produced the kind of feeling only the true greats deliver.

Scheffler came up big on a day when he didn’t have his A game, as a trio of bogeys would attest. Still, Scheff’s game for the week clicked in many areas, starting off the tee where he drove the ball well enough with his 8-degree TaylorMade Qi10 with a Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft to rank second in driving distance, fourth in driving accuracy and second in strokes gained off the tee.

Titleist Vokey Design SM10

To promote a slightly lower, more controllable ball flight, the SM10 line features shorter hosel lengths and a smaller-head profile to create a progressive centre of gravity in the 46- through 52-degree lofts.
Tour-player feedback resulted in shifting the centre of gravity on those lofts slightly closer to the centre of the face for a solid feel and to reduce a draw bias.
By using longer hosel lengths and thicker toplines in the higher lofts (54 degrees and up), Vokey was able to shift the centre of gravity up (for a lower trajectory) and slightly forward, which enables the face to square more easily.
Straighter leading edges on the pitching and gap wedges and more rounded leading edges on the sand and lob wedges provide the right amount of flexibility players need to execute a variety of shots.
A “spin-milled” cutting process uses a cutter that creates the entire scoreline instead of a partial scoreline. The result is tighter manufacturing tolerances for a more consistent scoreline-edge radius, allowing the grooves to be sharper and closer.
Micro-grooves cut between the grooves add spin on partial shots.
Top 5 in Performance, all handicaps.
27 options (46-62 degrees), 6 grinds, 3 finishes.

Into the greens he was first in greens in regulation and fifth in strokes gained/approach the green with his TaylorMade P7TW muscleback-blade irons and third in scrambling and sixth in strokes gained/around the green with his Titleist Vokey wedges, including a 60-degree K-Grind SM10 WedgeWorks model he used for the decisive chip on 17.

Get down and stay down, indeed.