Scottie Scheffler ushers in new era at the Masters
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- Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will both miss the Masters for the first time since 1994, with Woods in treatment and facing legal issues after a car accident and Mickelson citing a 'personal health matter.'
- Patrick Reed said of the void: 'without Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the events, in golf, when they both step away, honestly I feel it hurts the game.'
- Scottie Scheffler enters the week ranked No. 1 in the world for 186 consecutive weeks, having won four majors by age 29 including green jackets in 2022 and 2024.
- Scheffler walked to the practice green alone on Wednesday carrying his own putter, without a caddie, entourage or security, and admitted he doesn't know how to use Instagram.
- Scheffler and wife Meredith are raising nearly 2-year-old Bennett and newborn Remy, with Meredith handling the midnight wake-ups during Masters week; Scheffler called her 'a trouper.'
- Scheffler rejected the idea of letting results define him: 'If I let my good golf define me… then I'd walk around pretty arrogant all the time. And I wouldn't be very nice to people.'
Why it matters: The Masters is the first major where neither Tiger nor Phil appears in the field since 1994, handing the stewardship of the sport to a 29-year-old whose persona — faith-forward, family-first, deliberately low-key — is the opposite of the chaos-and-celebrity model that defined golf for two decades, with Scheffler already owning four majors to legitimize the transition.
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