Newly-crowned Open champion Scottie Scheffler insists it is "silly" to compare him to Tiger Woods. The 28-year-old won his second major of the year after May's US PGA, his fourth in total, and he is three-quarters of the way towards a career Grand Slam - which he can complete at next year's US Open in the same four-year time-frame as Jack Nicklaus.

The coincidence—if we can call it that—is almost too incredible to believe. During its broadcast of the British Open on Sunday, NBC put up a graphic over an image of Scottie Scheffler, noting that it would be 1,

Despite Scottie Scheffler’s dominant PGA season and his recent The Open championship win, he made it clear that Woods remains in a class of his own. “I still think they're a bit silly,” Scheffler told reporters of the G.O.A.T. debates (h/t Normal Sport's Kyler Porter ). “I think Tiger stands alone in the game of golf.”