10 Facts About Scottie Scheffler

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00:00Young American golfer Scotty Scheffler has made a meteoric and historic rise the top of the men's game

00:06Despite this he's still relatively unknown to golf and non-golf fans alike. So with that in mind, here's 10 facts about Scotty Scheffler

00:15Scheffler's hometown is Dallas, Texas where he played both golf and basketball at Highland Park High School

00:21He stayed in the state of Texas for his college career attending the University of Texas in Austin during his time at college

00:28He helped the golf team win three Big 12 championships, and he was also named Phil Mickelson freshman of the year in 2015

00:36He graduated from college three years later in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in finance

00:41After being named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2020 his first win on tour didn't come until

00:482022 this first win was in February of that year winning the Waste Management Phoenix Open

00:54He'd then go on to win his second event just three weeks later at the Arnold Palmer Invitational

00:58And he'd win his third tour event in March 2022 at the WGC Match Play in Austin

01:05After this third win within nine weeks on tour Scheffler became the number one men's golfer in the world rankings

01:11In doing this he broke the record for the quickest period of time between a first tour win and ascending the world rankings

01:18His record of just 42 days between these two achievements will take some serious beating

01:24Scotty Scheffler won the 2022 Masters his first ever major

01:30With this win he became the fifth golfer to enter the Masters as number one in the world rankings and win

01:36The other four golfers to do this were Tiger Woods, Ian Woosnam, Dustin Johnson and Fred Couples

01:42Scotty Scheffler is married to Meredith Scudder. The two had been dating for six years before they tied the knot in 2020

01:49They met while still at high school in Dallas, but they went to separate colleges in Texas while Scotty was at UT

01:56Meredith was at Texas A&M

01:58But the pair continued to date while they were at college and married after they both graduated

02:03One of his favorite TV shows is the US version of the sitcom The Office

02:07He said he watched a lot of the show during his downtime at the 2022 Masters

02:12And he also said that Dwight Shroop, one of the seminal characters in the show, is his favorite character

02:18You may have noticed that Scotty Scheffler always uses the same coin as his ball marker

02:22He uses a bicentennial quarter commemorating American independence in 1776

02:28Scheffler shot the 11th score of 59 in PGA Tour history

02:32He shot 59 at the second round of the 2020 Northern Trust at TPC Boston

02:37Scheffler's coach is PGA of America Hall of Famer Randy Smith and the pair met when Scheffler was just five years old

02:45Sticking with Scheffler's team, his caddy is Ted Scott who was previously on the bag of Bub Watson for 15 years prior

02:53So there you have it, 10 facts you may or may not have known about Scotty Scheffler

02:58Hopefully you've learned a little bit more about the golfer who has had one of the quickest rises to the top in the game's history

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