It's anybody's guess if Scottie Scheffler will ever reach Tiger Woods and Sam Snead's PGA Tour record of 82 victories. Red-hot Scottie won No. 16 today at Muirfield Village, the rich Memorial and its $4.4 million payout that brought his Tour earnings to a stunning $87.7 million. 

    So, barring Scottie driving off the road and into a tree, he appears to be a cinch to break Tiger's earnings record of $120 million. Scottie's only 28. He shot 10 under par over the tough Jack Nicklaus layout and won by four strokes over Ben Griffin, but there was no time over the back nine that Scottie was in trouble. 

    Scottie's No. 1 feature is that he hits fairways and greens much more consistently than his buddies. The one knock on his situation - if knock is the right word - is that Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson, Jon Rahm, Bryson Dechambeau, Patrick Reed, Sergio Garcia, Louis Oosthuizen and the rest of the LIVers only get to face him in the four Majors. When Scottie hangs up his cleats, will he be admitted as one of the really elite of the sport?

    Surprisingly, there were no Gators in the Memorial, and the lone Seminole, Daniel Berger, shot 9 over par and missed the unusually high cut of 5 over.

    Speaking of LIV, they have the worst graphics in history on their telecasts. Too small, too confusing. I hope nobody was paid to come up with them.

     Sidelights: The balls and strikes calls in MLB are horrendous. Close games are being decided by bad calls and it's not supposed to be that way. They need to use the TV images and have studio analysts make the calls, like they do with close plays.

     Also: The NBA refs are worse than the home plate umps. Their non-calls on walking and charging have ruined the game. Big guys race toward the basket, smash into three defenders and they call a foul on one of the defenders. Ridiculous.   

 

 

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