Scheffler could become just the second player in history to win both North Texas PGA TOUR stops in the same year.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Scottie Scheffler is quickly climbing the ranks of all-time Texas golfers, and that’s no small feat. His PGA Championship victory was his third major win, putting him ahead of the likes of Lone Star legends Ben Crenshaw and Jack Burke Jr.
In North Texas, Scheffler is now tied with fellow Dallasite Jordan Spieth, who also has three majors. In few (if any) regions would that be good for fourth all-time, but Dallas-Fort Worth is no average golfing town: Ben Hogan won nine majors, Lee Trevino had six and Byron Nelson collected five.
But Scheffler has a pretty unique opportunity this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge, the annual Colonial Country Club tournament that’s been held since 1946. Scheffler, who is the overwhelming favorite to win the Fort Worth event, could become just the second player in history to win both North Texas PGA TOUR stops in the same year.
And he’d join a Colonial legend in doing so: Ben Hogan.
Hogan won the 1946 Dallas Open — later to be renamed in honor of Nelson — and the inaugural Colonial National Invitation. Nelson himself had won the Dallas tournament in 1945, and then the since-defunct Fort Worth Open at Glen Garden Country Club that same year. But only Hogan has won the two North Texas tournaments that are still played annually. (Hogan, by the way, won that Dallas Open at Brook Hollow Golf Club and predicted the winning score, +4, before the tournament teed off, according to the newspaper accounts.)
Scheffler, just three weeks ago, won the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in a runaway at TPC Craig Ranch, firing a 31-under, eight strokes ahead of second place.
Scheffler certainly isn’t the first player to get a chance at matching Hogan’s 1946 double-dip, but he might have the best shot we’ve seen in a long time. Scheffler entered Thursday’s event at Colonial as the heavy favorite at +250 odds. The next-best odds belonged to Spieth and past Colonial champion Daniel Berger, who were both at +2200.
Data Golf was giving Scheffler a 25.3% chance to win, well ahead of 4.4% for Berger.
Both odds and the win percentage chances are astronomically tilted in Scheffler’s favor, but not without good reason. Not only is he coming off a big win at the PGA Championship, Scheffler has contended each of the last three years at Colonial, finishing tied for 2nd in 2024, tied for 3rd in 2023 and 2nd in 2022.
It almost feels like a matter of time before he wins in Fort Worth.