The Tour Championship provided a fitting climax to the season with 2023 champion Viktor Hovland and 2024 winner Scottie Scheffler trading blows on the back nine. Scheffler, however, delivered more of them and came away with the title, the FedEx Cup, a very healthy bank account and likely another PGA Tour Player of the Year award.<\/p>\n
Scheffler started the day in arears but a 6-iron tee shot to two inches at the par-3 second sent a message. A 24-footer followed at the fourth and a big bounce-back birdie at No. 8 had the game fully on. Three more birdies on the incoming nine, including one from a fairway bunker on 16, was enough to keep Hovland at bay.<\/p>\n
As usual Scheffler had all facets of his game working well, but none more so than his approach play. Scheffler ranked first in strokes gained\/approach the green, more than seven shots better than the field average. He also ranked first in greens in regulation, hitting 57 of 72 on the week.<\/p>\n
His TaylorMade P7TW irons with True Temper X100 shafts and Golf Pride Tour Velvet grips are based off Tiger Woods\u2019 model. \u201cI grew up playing Nike clubs like Tiger, so these had a special appeal to me,\u201d Scheffler told Golf Digest after putting them in play. \u201cI figured if he was using the irons they had to be pretty good. I found that I could adjust the flight a little bit more with these. I could hit these both lower and higher than my previous irons, so it gives me more options going into greens.”<\/p>\n
Prior to the tournament, Scheffler was asked if he\u2019d rather have the ultra-consistent year he\u2019d had or more wins. \u201cThe hypothetical game is not something I really love playing,\u201d he said. \u201cI think over the course of my career, I feel like one thing I’m most proud of is my consistency week in and week out. I think that’s something that I take a lot of pride in. It’s not easy to show up every single week and play the way that I play and play the intensity that I play and that I bring to each and every tournament. That’s something I’m really very proud of. \u2026 I feel like in golf it’s a puzzle that you’re always trying to solve.\u201d<\/p>\n
With one final win of 2026, Scheffler not only made the hypothetical moot, but solved yet another puzzle.<\/p>\n
Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D (Fujikura Ventus Black 7X), 8 degrees<\/p>\n
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10, 15 degrees<\/p>\n
7-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D, 21 degrees<\/p>\n
Irons (4): Srixon ZU85; (5-PW): TaylorMade P7TW<\/p>\n
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM8 (50, 56 degrees); Titleist Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks (60 degrees)<\/p>\n
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X X1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tour Championship provided a fitting climax to the season with 2023 champion Viktor Hovland and 2024 winner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[2480,17511,44,144,208,82,2482,22211,1142,723],"class_list":["post-59806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-equipment","tag-fedexcup2026","tag-golf","tag-pga-tour","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-story","tag-taylormade","tag-the-clubs-scottie-scheffler-used-to-win-the-2026-tour-championship","tag-tiger-woods","tag-titleist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}