Bubba Watson has made another controversial claim, stating that Scottie Scheffler’s 2024 season was more successful than Tiger Woods’ remarkable campaign in 2000.
Last season, Scheffler won seven times on the PGA Tour including the Masters and the Players Championship while he also struck Olympic Gold in Paris last summer.
Woods’ year of dominance twenty-five years ago saw him clinch nine titles, including three major championships where he stormed to victories by fifteen shots at the US Open in Pebble Beach and by eight shots at the Open in St Andrews.
Bubba, whose former longtime caddie Ted Scott now loops for Scheffler, believes the current world number one went to another level last year thanks to his former bagman.
“I know Tiger did some stuff in 2000 but Scottie’s year was the best we’ve ever seen,” Watson told GOLF.com “With all the talent around the world now playing, that was it.”
“Scottie was already a great golfer,” added Watson who won the 2012 and 2014 Masters alongside Scott. “But that friendship and that bond [with Ted], he went to an elite golfer.”
Bubba has been dishing out some outlandish statements this year. He believes that the top 15 LIV players on the points list should qualify for the majors. This came after the USGA and R&A allocated the breakaway league one spot.
Watson, who has missed the cut in his last two Masters tournaments and has not played a major outside of Augusta National since 2022 was also bullish about his chances of landing a hat trick of green jackets.
“I truly do,” said Watson who has not had a top-10 on LIV in two years. “It comes down to mental strength, mental awareness. It comes down to making a few putts here and there. Golf is such a fine line — you make one putt or you chip in at the right moment and it inspires you for the rest of the day or the tournament.
“Truthfully, I’ve had the thought: If you do it, like if you actually pull it off… I mean, I’m 46. You’re talking about [the same age] Jack Nicklaus was when he won. If you did that, you know, maybe you drop the shoes on the green and walk off forever. That’d be a cool moment, right?”
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