13 Old Photos Of Scottie Scheffler From Before He Became The Most Dominant Golfer Since Tiger Woods

Scottie Scheffler owns the #1 spot in the men’s golf world rankings by a mile. Nobody is close to him at the moment and it will be a long time before any golfer can catch him.

Leading up to the Tour Championship at East Lake and nearly halfway through the FedEx Cup, Scottie is the only player on the PGA Tour with 4 wins this season, and that includes two major championships, his first British Open Championship and the PGA Championship. But Scottie Scheffler wasn’t always this dominant!

13 Old Photos Of Scottie Scheffler From Before He Became World #1

As the entire golf world, myself included, marvels at how far Scheffler has ascended in recent years it is worth remembering it was not that long ago that he was jsut a junior golfer in Texas.

Below are 13 photos from Scottie Scheffler’s amateur golf days, including his first-ever hole-in-one in a PGA Tour event and his early U.S. Open appearances, to remind us how far the world #1 golfer has come in such a short period of time.

1. Scottie Scheffler at the 8th Junior Ryder Cup

This is one of the earliest Getty Images of Scottie Scheffler playing competitive golf. Here he stands next to Robby Shelton IV, both on the US Team, with referee Jim Deaton in the middle, flanked by Matthias Schwab of Austria and Dominic Foos of Germany from the European Team on the right.

This photo was taken on September 24, 2012, or 3,429 days before Scottie Scheffler would get his first win on the PGA Tour in 2022. That is a full 9 years, 4 months, and 20 days of Scottie grinding it out on the range and course before he’d hoist a PGA Tour trophy above his head!

2. Scottie Schefflers’s Junior Ryder Cup-Friendship Matches At Medinah

This photo is a trip! Scottie Scheffler standing next to Keegan Bradley. Next month, Scottie Scheffler will be the face of Team USA in the 2025 Ryder Cup at Bethpage Black. Keegan Bradley is the captain but could also likely play in the Ryder Cup himself.

The image above is from September 26, 2012 at Median Country Club during Day 3 of the Junior Ryder Cup matches. That was 9 years, 4 months, and 18 days before Scheffler won his first tournament on the PGA Tour, or a whopping 296,092,800 seconds (4,934,880 minutes) for those keeping track at home.

3. Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa At the 2017 Walker Cup

Jumping forward in time 5 years from 2012 to 2017 for this photo, Scottie Scheffler is competing alongside Collin Morikawa in the 2017 Walker Cup at Los Angeles Country Club.

These two future Major Championship winners had no idea what the future had in store for them. Scheffler had just recently turned 21-years-old a few months prior to this photo. Team USA DOMINATED the 2017 Walker Cup, beating Great Britain and Ireland with a 19-7 points total. Scottie had made the team after earning the low amateur honors at the 2017 U.S. Open.

4. Scheffler And Morikawa Getting The Job Done

Here we have another incredible old photo of Scottie Scheffler and Collin Morikawa. This photo was taken just a day after the one above.

This was the final practice day of the 2017 Walker Cup before competition began. Collin doesn’t appear to have aged a day in the 8+ years since then while Scottie Scheffler looks like he’s maybe a year or two younger. For two guys that spend every day in the sun on the golf course they sure manage to fight off the ravages of age pretty well.

5. Scottie Scheffler’s First Hole-In-One On The PGA Tour

Long before he became the #1 golfer in the world and the most dominant golfer the PGA Tour has seen since Tiger Woods, Scottie Scheffler got his first hole-in-one on tour while he was still an amateur golfer.

At the 2014 HP Byron Nelson Championship held at the TPC Four Seasons Resort in Irving, Texas, Scottie Scheffler made a hole-in-one on the par-3 2nd hole with his sister Callie Scheffler on the bag.

We will see Callie a few times in the next few photos, his older sister. She notably caddied for Scottie at the 2014 Byron Nelson and the 2016 U.S. Open, helping steady Scottie’s nerves as he tried to get comfortable on the PGA Tour.

6. Scottie At The 2014 Byron Nelson With Callie Scheffler

Here is another photo of Scottie Scheffler at the 2014 Byron Nelson with his older sister Callie on the bag. TPC Las Colinas is a course I played twice my freshman year at SMU and all I really remember was how tough it was.

Scottie Scheffler was still an amateur golfer at this point. He wouldn’t go pro for another 4 years in 2018. But that didn’t stop Scottie from finishing in a tie for 22nd place that week in Dallas. Scottie went 71-68-69-68 to finish at -4.

This was so long ago that David Duval and Vijay Singh were in the field that week! Duval missed the cut and Scottie beat Vijay by two strokes.

7. Scottie Scheffler’s First U.S. Open Apperance

Scottie made his U.S. Open debut as an amateur golfer at the 2016 U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. He didn’t make the cut that year but there were flashes of brilliance.

The young Scheffler came out hot at Oakmont Country Club and fired off a first round score of 69. Unfortunately, he followed it up with a second round score of 78 to miss the cut. But so did Phil Mickelson that year! Oakmont was brutal in 2016 and only four players, including winner Dustin Johnson (-4), finished under par for the week.

8. Scottie Scheffler Makes His First U.S. Open Cut

Playing in back-to-back U.S. Opens, Scottie Scheffler beat some of the world’s best in 2017 at the U.S. Open at Erin Hills in Wisconsin.

Brooks Koepka ran away with it that week, finishing at -16, and a young Scottie Scheffler who was still an amateur at that point finished in a five-way tie for 27th place at -1. Scottie fired off scores of 69-74-71-73 with his older sister Callie Scheffler on the bag again.

He could have finished a LOT lower if it wasn’t for an ‘8’ on the par-5 18th hole in Round 3, a score we rarely if ever see from Scottie these days.

9. Scheffler And Crew At The 2017 Walker Cup

This photo from the 2017 Walker Cup at the Los Angeles Country Club shows a young Scottie Scheffler, Collin Morikawa in the middle, and Doc Redman on the left.

Collin is looking directly at the camera and seems like he’s just had the realization for the first time in his life that professional photographers exist at golf tournaments while Scottie looks like he is envisioning his ball rolling into the hole on the next swing. This was that same 2017 Walker Cup where Team USA dominated Great Britain and Ireland.

Doc Redman (left) made the U.S. Team by winning the 2017 U.S. Amateur. Collin was selected to the team after winning the 2015 Trans-Mississippi Amateur and the 2017 Northeast Amateur.

Scheffler actually lost his first match of the 2017 Walker Cup 3&2 playing with teammate Cameron Champ against England Scott Gregory and England Jack Singh Brar, one of just 8 total matches Team USA lost that year. He would then ride the bench until the aftenroon singles matches on Day 3 where he’d beat Connor Syme 1-up. Collin Morikawa won all 4 matches he appeared in that Walker Cup.

10. University of Texas Longhorns Golfer Scottie Scheffler Pushing His Cart

I have seen a lot of chatter lately on Golf Social Media about ‘Push vs Pull Carts’ and for those wondering, this is a push cart. This is the future world #1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, who has made $92,156,470 in PGA Tour winnings alone, pushing his cart while competing at the 2016 East Lake Cup for the Texas Longhorns.

The Longhorns lost to Oregon but came *so close* to winning it all, losing to Oregon 3-2. That individual leaderboard was stacked though! Jon Rahm finished t3 while at Arizona State and Collin Morikawa finished t10 while he was competing for the Cal Bears.

11. Scottie Scheffler At The 2016 NCAA National Championship

Another photo of a young Scottie Scheffler playing college golf, and further proof that the burnt orange of the Texas Longhorns suits him well.

He he throwing a wave to the camera here? Or did he just toss a ball to a friend? It is hard to say for sure. The year prior, Scottie Scheffler had won the 2015 Phil Mickelson Freshman of the Year as the nation’s top freshman golfer. He also won the 2015 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year, PING All-America Second Team, All-Freshmen Team, and All-Big 12 First Team honors.

In 2016, Scottie earned Academic All-Big 12 First Team honors, was a 2016 U.S. Open Qualifier, and a World Amateur Team selection.

12. Scottie Scheffler at 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills

This photo I had to include because it looks like it was taken this Summer… Above is Scottie Scheffler at the 2017 U.S. Open at Erin Hills, according to Getty Images, again with his older sister on the bag.

You can see the Texas flag on his hat as this was a year before Scottie would go from amateur to professional golf and had yet to even consider sponsorships. Just a wild photo considering how he looks that same age today but this was over 8 years ago.

13. Scottie Scheffler at 8th Junior Ryder Cup at Olympia Fields Country Club

This last photo is perhaps my favorite of the old photos of Scottie Scheffler. This one come from the 8th Junior Ryder Cup at Olympia Fields Country Club all the way back on September 25, 2012.

Scottie is just 16 years old here and already playing at the highest-level of golf. So many people in the golf world love to act like his dominance, which we haven’t seen since Tiger Woods, came out of nowhere. But he was competing that the Junior Ryder Cup, Walker Cup, NCAA, and Men’s Amateur level long before he got his first win on the PGA Tour.

Currently, Scheffler is the #1 ranked golfer in the world by a mile. His average OWGR points won are 20.0309 at the moment with the next closest player, Rory McIlroy, having just over half that (11.3105) and everyone else trailing him at about 1/3 of his average points.

Scheffler is playing in a league of his own at the moment. We are all lucky to see this level of dominance on the PGA Tour, a level nobody has seen anything close to since Tiger Woods.

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