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PGA Championship 2025: The clubs Scottie Scheffler used to win at Quail Hollow

By E. Michael Johnson

May 18, 2025

Alex Slitz

Scottie Scheffler held a three-shot lead after 54 holes of the PGA Championship but was taking nothing for granted in pursuit of his third career major championship.

“It's going to take another really good round,” he said on Saturday. “There's a lot of great players chasing me on the leaderboard, and someone is going to put up a great round. It's up to me to go out there and have another really good round and finish off the tournament.”

Scheffler was mostly correct. Jon Rahm came from five shots in arrears to tie for the lead after a 7-iron from a fairway bunker on No. 11 was followed by a birdie putt to knot Scheffler at nine under par. Scheffler, however, won despite failing to produce the predicted necessary good round. A even-par 71 for an 11-under 273 total was still good enough to hoist the Wanamaker Trophy.

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Not that Scheffler, who made a trio of bogeys on the front, didn’t have some moments on the incoming nine, making birdie at the 10th to re-take the lead then converting a long up-and-down from the sand on the short par-4 14th to stretch the margin to two. A birdie at the next coupled with a Rahm double on 17 effectively ended things, Scheffler winning by five shots.

Scheffler’s stats for the week said it all. Sixth is strokes gained/off the tee (more than 4.5 shots better than the field). Fifth in greens in regulation. Fifth in strokes gained/around the green and second in putts per green in regulation.

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Off the tee, the World No. 1 uses an 8-degree TaylorMade Qi10 with a (Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft. A lot of his magic around the green was done with a Titleist Vokey SM10 WedgeWorks 60-degree lob wedge while he continued to lean on his TaylorMade Spider Tour X X1mallet putter on the greens.

Given that he won by six, maybe Scheffler’s round was pretty good after all.