Butch Harmon, as he’s talking about Scottie Scheffler, wonders about other players. In doing so, he asks a rhetorical question. “I mean, can you imagine if all the great players we talk about had Scottie Scheffler’s head,” Harmon said, “how much better they’d be?” High praise.
But this may be higher. One player led to a different thought — one the GOLF Top 100 Teacher hall of famer so believed that he called into a radio show on Monday to make it. Harmon also said that Scheffler’s mind was closer than anyone’s to golf’s all-time major winner.
One day after Scheffler won the Open Championship, won his fourth major championship and moved within a U.S. Open victory of the career grand slam, Tiger Woods’ one-time coach was comparing him to Jack Nicklaus .
“I got to tell you that the only reason I called in, I was listening to you talk about him and all the comparisons and stuff to Tiger and this and that,” Harmon said on Sirius XM’s “Gravy and the Sleeze” show . “I think his greatest attribute that he has is he’s the closest thing to Jack Nicklaus I’ve ever seen mentally. He makes no mental mistakes.
He dumps the ball in the middle of the green when he has to. His iron control is beautiful. “He reminds me more of Jack than he does of Tiger, Tiger in the winning ways, but Jack in the way he plays golf.
I’ve never quite seen a guy that can mimic Nicklaus the way he does.” Such is the talk in the moments after Scheffler’s victory. Or, .
