It hasn’t been the ideal start to the 2026 PGA Tour season that World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler likely envisioned after dominating the sport over the past two years on a week-to-week basis.
Scheffler secured a victory in his first appearance of the season at The American Express, which marked the 20th PGA Tour title of his career. However, he has not won since and showed some uncharacteristic inconsistency in recent starts.
Scheffler generally played well over the weekend, but developed a pattern of struggling early in tournaments — particularly during the opening round — leaving himself with too much ground to make up.
That said, a change could be coming to his setup. According to Todd Lewis of Golf Channel and NBC Sports, Scheffler is expected to switch back to an older driver after recently putting the TaylorMade Qi4D into play.
He used the club at the Arnold Palmer Invitational last weekend, where he finished at two-under par — tying for 24th and finishing 13 shots behind the winner, Akshay Bhatia.
Despite some of the adversity Scheffler is facing early on, he doesn’t seem fazed by the inconsistencies from one day to the next. Sportsbooks don’t appear too worried either, as he continued to be the betting favorite in every tournament he competed in this year — and once again this week — according to DraftKings.
“If you flipped my season around and it was like, OK, I finished 24th and 12th, and then third and fourth, with a win coming into this week, would your question be the same if I was coming from third, fourth, win?” Scheffler said.
“My point is, it’s like your expectations of me are living week by week. My expectations of myself are almost more shot by shot.”