Brandel Chamblee says whether he’s changed his mind about Scottie Scheffler winning the PGA

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At the start of the week, Brandel Chamblee tipped Scottie Scheffler to win the PGA Championship at Aronimink.

Scheffler has actually enjoyed a very good season so far on the PGA Tour, with a win, three runner-up finishes and six top-5s to his name.

However, because of the ridiculously high standards Scheffler has set, he has actually received criticism for his form in 2026.

In spite of that, Scottie Scheffler will continue doing his thing, and he is right in the mix to win the PGA Championship this week.

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Scheffler struggled at times at the PGA Championship on Friday, but he still managed to post a round of 71 to back up his opening-round 67.

He is currently sitting two strokes adrift of the leaders with 36 holes still to play.

But does Brandel Chamblee still think the world number one will win, after predicting him to do just that before the tournament began?

Brandel Chamblee makes Scottie Scheffler PGA Championship prediction

Chamblee was speaking about the first two rounds of the PGA Championship during The Golf Channel’s Live From The PGA.

He responded when asked whether he still fancies the world number one to win with 36 holes left to play, or if he’s backing someone else to lift the Wanamaker trophy.

“I do indeed,“ Chamblee said.

*“*I mean, as we’re sitting here, he’s just two back.

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*“*I still don’t think we’ve seen Scottie Scheffler’s best golf yet in his career.

*“*He still has a propensity to miss some short putts, and this year, his irons haven’t been particularly sharp.

“But, yes, I still like Scottie Scheffler to win.“

Scottie Scheffler likened to Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods

The former PGA Tour player turned golf analyst explained the one specific skill which makes Scheffler such a great player.

“This is why you want to see tests like this, because you want to see the best players in the world actually tested,“ Chamblee said.

*“*You want to see them have to do things that are just mind-bogglingly difficult, that very few players can do.

*“*Why do major championships test the best players? The course is firmer, the greens are firmer, the rough is thicker.

*“*Is it any surprise that the two greatest major champions of all time (Nicklaus and Woods) were phenomenal out of the rough? Why? Because they had upright golf swings, and a lot of power.

*“*How many times did we see Tiger Woods drive it in the rough, and then inexplicably extract himself from the rough with spectacular shots?

*“*That takes power, it takes an upright golf swing.

*“*So, early in the day, when Scottie Scheffler was playing in the worst of the wind, the worst of the weather, brutal conditions, and was driving it awful, kept finding bunkers, kept finding the rough, with his upright swing, he could pick it out of the bunkers and the rough. That’s where an upright golf swing never ceases to pay dividends.

*“*He kept driving it in the rough, so he was having to play with some discretion. He was having to play away from locations.

*“*You need power. You need an upright swing. You got to land it in the right place, and yeah, maybe you need a little bit of luck but I would call it skill.

“Very similar to Jack Nicklaus. Very similar to Tiger Woods, and that’s the reason he was able to turn it around, get back in form, and just shoot one over par, and not three, four, or five-over par.“