18-time major winner Jack Nicklaus sees more of himself in Scottie Scheffler than Rory McIlroy and feels the American\u2019s accuracy off the tee will win more tournaments.<\/p>\n
McIlroy and Scheffler have won three of the last six major tournaments including the Masters and PGA Championship respectively this season while McIlroy has further wins at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am and the Players Championship with Scheffler winning the CJ Cup.<\/p>\n
Both victories came under very different circumstances. McIlroy was bidding for the career grand slam at the Masters while also battling the demons of an eleven-year major drought while Scheffler continued his recent dominance in golf with his third major crown.<\/p>\n
Although McIlroy now has five majors and has been tipped to win more, Nicklaus believes Scheffler might overtake the Holywood man.<\/p>\n
\u201c[I see myself more in] Scotty,\u201d Nicklaus told the Sky Sports Golf Podcast. \u201cFirst of all, Rory, the ball gets away from Rory right to left. Always has his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hasn\u2019t corrected it, but he still has had a great career with it. But could he have had a better career if he\u2019d gone a little bit the other way? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe yes, maybe no. But Scottie has learned at a fairly young age that keeping the ball in play [is key]. He\u2019s long, he\u2019s certainly long enough, as long as the rest of the guys. But he doesn\u2019t try to be.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe makes sure that he puts it in play so that he\u2019s got a second shot to play. I think that wins golf tournaments more often than hitting it over the top of trees and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also on the podcast, Nicklaus revealed what he said to McIlroy after he became just the sixth golfer to win the grand slam last month, a limited club that includes Nicklaus himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that getting over the line and winning The Masters is probably more important than winning the Grand Slam,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that The Masters has been a bugaboo for him for 10 years. And I think that once he got The Masters behind him, the reward was the Grand Slam, so I\u2019m very happy for him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was great golf, and I dropped him a note and said a guy who makes four double-bogeys and still has enough talent to overcome that is pretty special.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nicklaus will be front and centre this week as the PGA Tour heads to the Memorial Tournament, better known as Jack\u2019s place at Muirfield Village.<\/p>\n
However, McIlroy will be absent from the field for the first time since 2017 having opted to skip the event.<\/p>\n
This will be the third Signature Event that McIlroy has missed after skipping the Sentry and RBC Heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"18-time major winner Jack Nicklaus sees more of himself in Scottie Scheffler than Rory McIlroy and feels the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,6988,4298,4287,4288,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-134045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-jack-nicklaus","10":"tag-pga-tour","11":"tag-rory-mcilroy","12":"tag-scottie-scheffler","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114575856595257003","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}