BY DOUG FERGUSON
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler is next in line for comparisons with Tiger Woods because golf, like other sports, is always looking for the heir to the throne.
Scheffler is playing great golf, measured as much by his elite ball-striking and alarming consistency as the results. He now has nine victories against the strongest fields — one of them a small field in the Bahamas — in the 25 months since he won his first PGA Tour title.
Equally impressive is his 65% rate of finishing in the top 10.
The next Woods?
“I think that’s a funny question,” Scheffler said Sunday evening after his record-tying final round made him the first back-to-back winner of The Players Championship.
He found out the answer a month earlier at Riviera during the Genesis Invitational.
“I’m not going to remember the exact numbers, but we’re playing at
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