Golf Star Triumphs Over Streak-Breaking Challenges!
A mobile food tent is making waves behind the scenes at this year's Players Championship, but the story is bigger than a burrito.
Players Championship week is time to eat. Getty Images PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — It might be said that every moment, every instant that Scottie Scheffler spends in the heat of battle is the product of thousands of decisions that nobody ever sees.
Decisions like the one he faced on Saturday afternoon at the Players Championship, shortly after completing one of the low rounds of the day at TPC Sawgrass, when Scheffler faced a question of the utmost seriousness: Burrito or bowl? Golf is a complicated sport, and that’s largely because its champions are built upon fractional advantages . In 2022, Scheffler’s Strokes Gained: Putting was -.
301, which ranked 162nd on Tour and caused several months of sustained apoplexy among golf talking heads. In 2025, it was . 382 — an improvement of slightly more than half a shot per round — and Scheffler was unanimously viewed as one of the best putters on Tour and a generally unstoppable force in the sport.
The butterfly effect of such incremental improvements can be seen everywhere on a typical weekend on the PGA Tour, where golfers chase gear fixes, physical therapy and even psychological treatment in the feeble hope of an extra decimal point. “If we can make them literally one percent better every week, then we’ve done something,” Kellen Watson, a Tour Rep for Callaway, says. “One percent is more than enough.
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