Scottie Scheffler and Nelly Korda are the best in golf for a reason

The heights they reach have turn out to be comical, two golfers taking up their respective sports with such dominance that it's hard to assume – a minimum of for this moment – that anyone could beat them.

Nelly Korda just won her fifth straight start, ending with a significant, the Chevron Championship. Scottie Scheffler has just won 4 of 5 starts with a Masters in the center. The number 1s in the boys's and girls's worlds are not any longer just the perfect players of their sport. They turn out to be the perfect of all time. It's gotten to the purpose where Scheffler was jokingly asked this week in Hilton Head if the 2 were competing.

“I don't know, man,” he joked, “I think if it's a competition, she's pretty much beaten me right now.” Five wins in a row. She had that T16 at first of the yr that was just terrible. I can’t imagine she did that.”

And with their great runs has come a fun little trend: Who can post probably the most ridiculous, impressive stats or notes to quantify how incredible their golf was in 2024?

“Best five weeks since then.”

“I’ve won the most strokes since then.”

It's gotten so extreme and entertaining that we decided to compile a listing of probably the most impressive and meaningful notes from Scheffler and Korda's historic runs.

1. In their last 10 combined starts, Korda and Scheffler have beaten 1,163 golfers, per Monday Q Info. Only one golfer hit. Stephen Jaeger avoided a playoff and beat Scheffler by one shot on the Houston Open after his putt on 18 missed. For Korda, it’s the primary time since Annika Sorsenstam (2004, 2005) that somebody has won five consecutive LPGA events. Scheffler's WW-T2 WW run is just the fifth series of 5 or more T2s within the last 30 years. Tiger Woods did it eight times in a row and on one other occasion seven times in a row. Scheffler matched Vijay Singh's 2004 run.

2. Korda and Scheffler became the second pair of world No. 1s in men's and girls's golf to win major tournaments in consecutive weeks (for the reason that inception of the Rolex Women's World Golf Ranking). According to Tiger and Lorena Ochoa, this was achieved in consecutive weeks on the Women's British Open and the 2007 PGA Championship Contributor Justin Ray.

3. In the last 42 days, Scheffler has earned $16.3 million. That's the second-most earnings in a PGA Tour season, and he's done it in only five events. That means Ted Scott, Scheffler's caddy, made about $1.78 million this yr, putting him at No. 45 on the 2024 PGA Tour money list, ahead of Rory McIlroy.

Scheffler is chasing his own record. He earned $21.04 million last season.

4. It's not only Scheffler's victories. These are his two years of historic consistency. Scheffler has finished in the highest three in 23 of his last 51 events, beating almost all the field 43 percent of the time. For reference, Xander Schauffele is the No. 2 player at DataGolf and one of the consistent players in men's skilled golf not named Scheffler. Schauffele's pre-RBC Heritage betting odds had him ending in the highest five 30 percent of the time. Scheffler ended up in the highest three almost one and a half times as quickly.

5. Scottie's lead on this planet rankings over No. 2 Rory McIlroy is larger than McIlroy's lead over No. 788 Tiger Woods. Scheffler has twice as many OWGR points as McIlroy, with 690 total points, a median of 15 points to McIlroy's 338 points, which corresponds to a median of seven.4.

The gap between world No. 1 Nelly Korda and world No. 2 Lilia Vu within the Rolex Women's Golf Rankings is similar because the gap between Vu and the 185th ranked player, Auston Kim.

6. Scheffler has twice as many rounds of 64 or lower (4) as rounds of even par (2) this season. Even par is his worst results of 2024 (Round 2 on the Houston Open and Masters). He hasn't shot over par since a 3-over 73 on the Tour Championship in August.

7. With her win on the Chevron Championship, Korda became the third LPGA player, joining Nancy Lopez (1978) and Sorenstam, to win five tournaments in five starts. After withdrawing from the LA Championship this week, Korda might be aiming for a record sixth victory on the Founders Cup (May 9-12 in Clifton, NJ).

eighth. No American golfer had won five tournaments in a single LPGA season since July Inkster in 1999. Korda had won just five tournaments in a row before May.

9. Korda leads the LPGA points race for the 2024 season with 2,702 CME Globe points. Lydia Ko is in second place and has earned lower than half of that. Korda has already collected enough points to complete third in each of the last two years.

10. The 25-year-old Korda became the youngest American player to win a second LPGA major since July Inkster (23) in 1984 (over Justin Ray). From 1984 to 2002, Inkster ultimately won seven. Meg Mallon is the one other American woman to achieve 4 majors within the twenty first century. Korda is halfway there.

The only excellent news for the remainder of the PGA and LPGA tours? Scheffler and Korda have decided to take this week off.

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