Scottie Scheffler, Nelly Korda are the biggest things in golf for a reason

The heights they’re attaining have develop into comical, two golfers taking on their respective sports activities with such dominance that — a minimum of for this past — it’s tough to consider any person beating them.

Nelly Korda simply received her 5th directly get started, finishing with a significant, the Chevron Championship. Scottie Scheffler simply received 4 of 5 begins with a Masters within the center. The lads’s and ladies’s global Refuse. 1s are not simply the most productive gamers of their game. They’re changing into two of the most productive ever. It’s reached the purpose Scheffler used to be playfully requested this moment in Hilton Head if the 2 of them are in a contest.

“I don’t know, man,” he joked, “I think if it’s a competition she’s got me pretty beat right now. Five wins in a row. She had that T16 at the beginning of the year, which was just terrible. I can’t believe she did that.”

And with their runs of greatness has come a a laugh negligible development: Who can put up probably the most ridiculous, notable statistics or notes to quantify how implausible their golfing has been in 2024.

“The best five weeks since this.”

“The most strokes gained since that.”

It’s develop into so utmost and lively that we made up our minds, whats up, let’s construct an inventory of probably the most notable and telling notes on Scheffler’s and Korda’s historical runs.

1. Of their extreme 10 blended begins, Korda and Scheffler have crushed 1,163 golfers, according to Monday Q Data. Just one golfer beat both. Stephen Jaeger have shyed away from a playoff and beat Scheffler by way of one stroke on the Houston Seen then the ultimate’s putt on 18 overlooked. For Korda, it’s the primary past someone has received 5 directly LPGA occasions since Annika Sorsenstam (2004, 2005). Scheffler’s run of W-W-T2-W-W is simply the 5th streak of 5 T2s or higher within the extreme 30 years. Tiger Timbers did it 8 directly occasions two times, and 7 directly on any other age. Scheffler has matched Vijay Singh’s 2004 run.

2. Korda and Scheffler turned into the second one pair of worldwide Refuse. 1 gamers in each males’s and ladies’s golfing to win majors in consecutive weeks (because the inception of the Rolex Girls’s Global Golfing Rating). Tiger and Lorena Ochoa did it in back-to-back weeks on the Girls’s British Seen and PGA Championship in 2007, consistent with The Athletic contributor Justin Ray.

3. Within the extreme 42 days, Scheffler has earned $16.3 million. That’s the second one maximum earned in a PGA Excursion season, and he did it in simply 5 occasions. That implies that Ted Scott, Scheffler’s caddie, has made roughly $1.78 million this life, striking him at forty fifth at the 2024 PGA Excursion cash checklist, forward of Rory McIlroy.

Scheffler is chasing indisposed his personal report. He received $21.04 million extreme season.

4. It’s no longer simply Scheffler’s wins. It’s his two years of historical consistency. Scheffler has completed top-3 in 23 of his extreme 51 occasions. That’s beating nearly all the ground 43 % of the past. For reference, Xander Schauffele is Refuse. 2 on DataGolf and has been one of the crucial constant gamers in males’s professional golfing no longer named Scheffler. Schauffele’s having a bet odds ahead of the RBC Heritage projected him to complete height 5 30 % of the past. For one event. Scheffler has been completing height 3 just about one and part occasions that life.

5. Scottie’s govern on this planet scores over Refuse. 2 Rory McIlroy is greater than McIlroy’s govern over Refuse. 788 Tiger Timbers. Scheffler has double the OWGR issues as McIlroy, with 690 overall issues for a mean of 15 issues to McIlroy’s 338, averaging 7.4.

The space between global Refuse. 1 Nelly Korda and global Refuse. 2 Lilia Vu at the Rolex Girls’s Golfing Scores is simply as massive as the distance between the Vu and the 185th-ranked participant, Auston Kim.

6. Scheffler has two times as many rounds of 64 or decrease this season (4) than rounds of even par (2). Even par is his worst ranking in 2024 (Spherical 2 on the Houston Seen and Masters). He hasn’t shot over par since a 3-over 73 on the Excursion Championship in August.

7. Along with her win on the Chevron Championship, Korda turned into the 3rd LPGA participant to win 5 tournaments in 5 begins, becoming a member of Nancy Lopez (1978) and Sorenstam. Next taking flight from this moment’s LA Championship Korda may exit for a report 6th win as quickly because the Founders Cup (Would possibly 9-12 in Clifton, N.J.).

8. Refuse American golfer had received 5 tournaments in one LPGA season since Juli Inkster in 1999. Korda simply received 5 in consecutive occasions ahead of Would possibly.

9. Korda leads the LPGA’s 2024 season-long issues race with 2,702 CME Globe issues. Lydia Ko is in 2d park and has earned not up to part of that. Korda has already earned plethora issues to have completed 3rd every of the extreme two years.

10. Korda, 25,  turned into the youngest American participant to win a 2d LPGA main since Juli Inkster (who used to be 23)  in 1984 (by way of Justin Ray). Inkster in the long run received seven from 1984 to 2002. Meg Mallon is the one alternative American to get to 4 majors within the twenty first century. Korda is midway there.

The one excellent information for the residue of the PGA and LPGA Excursions? Scheffler and Korda have made up our minds to pluck this moment off.

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