One of the great things about Olympic golf is there is no playing to secure a top-10 finish or the like. You either hit the podium or you don’t. That resulted in a wild final round at Le Golf National that saw those finishing in the top 10 play their final rounds in a cumulative 52 under par, with Scottie Scheffler coming out on top with a final-round 62 to grab the gold medal over a leaderboard any major championship would love to have.

Scheffler proved prescient on Saturday. Standing four back after 54 holes, Scheffler was asked if his mind was on a medal. He was thinking otherwise.

“I’d like to be leading,” he said. “I feel like I haven’t had my best stuff the last few days, but I’ve done enough to hang in there and stay in the tournament. Around this course, you can get hot. You saw Nicolai [Hojgaard] had a really nice round today [62], and I’m going to need something like that tomorrow if I’m going to be holding a medal.”

That medal turned out to be gold, something that seemed highly unlikely as Jon Rahm appeared to be running away with the tournament, holding a four-shot lead after the 10th hole. Scheffler, however, broke like a sprinter from the blocks with three birdies to open then played the final nine in 29 strokes, taking the lead with four consecutive birdies from Nos. 14 through 17 (one of only three on the day on 17). Tommy Fleetwood eventually tied him, but he bogeyed the 17th hole to fall one behind.

Scheffler ranked third in strokes gained/off the tee with his 8-degree TaylorMade Qi10 with a Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft, but it was his iron game that was truly clicking. He ranked third in greens in regulation, hitting 15 or more in three rounds. That led to leading the field in strokes gained/approach the green, picking up more than 10 shots on the field average.

Scheffler’s TaylorMade P7TW irons are based off Tiger Woods’ muscle-back blades and have True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts and Golf Pride Tour Velvet grips.

“I grew up playing Nike clubs like Tiger, so these had a special appeal to me,” Scheffler told Golf Digest in 2022. “I figured if he was using the irons they had to be pretty good.”

That they are and they helped Scheffler win something Woods hasn’t—an Olympic gold medal.

What Scottie Scheffler had in the bag at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (Fujikua Ventus Black 7X), 8 degrees

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10, 15 degrees

Irons (3-4): Srixon ZU85; (5-PW): TaylorMade P7TW

Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM8 (50, 56 degrees); Titleist Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks prototype (60 degrees

Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X X1

Main Image: Andrew Redington