For most golfers, an off year may mean failing to make cuts, finishing outside the top 50 or 125, or not winning a certain amount of money.

Scottie Scheffler, however, is not most golfers. After one of the most successful seasons in PGA Tour history, which included seven wins and a record $29 million, he measures success differently. And so far in 2025, Scheffler’s game is not where it was a year ago and not fully to his liking.

As he gets set to defend his title at the Masters, there are questions as to just how well he’s playing compared to a year ago. In 2024, he had two wins and six top-10 finishes in eight starts ahead of the year’s first major.

This year, he’s logged three top-10s in six events, including a runner-up finish at the Texas Children’s Houston Open, his final start before the Masters. For mere mortals, that performance, along with the $3.3 million he’s won, would be more than acceptable. But Scheffler wants more.

“I definitely feel better,” he said after a solid tournament in Houston where he finished tied for second. “But I feel like I can still clean up a few things in my swing.”

Part of the reason for the slower start was a freak injury to his palm, caused when a wine glass he was using to cut pasta out of a sheet broke. It required surgery to repair and........

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