Should the Americans be concerned about Scottie Scheffler in team play the way they once were with Tiger Woods?
In Woods’ prime, his performances on Ryder Cups never came close to matching the dominance he displayed when he was playing for himself in PGA Tour and major championship golf.
Woods played 37 Ryder Cup matches in his career and had an eye-opening pedestrian record of just 13-21-3.
Scheffler, who’s been ranked No. 1 for 156 weeks and has won 13 times in the past two years, is the most dominant player since Woods.
And yet there was Scheffler in Friday morning’s foursomes getting dusted alongside partner Russell Henley by Europe’s Ludvig Aberg and Matt Fitzpatrick, who entered these matches with a ghastly 1-7 overall record in the Ryder Cup.
Scheffler, remember, lost by an ast