Scottie Scheffler is back in a familiar spot at the Texas Children’s Houston Open

The World No. 1 carded his lowest round of the season at the Texas Children’s Houston Open.

The rest of the PGA Tour needs to watch out once again — Scottie Scheffler is back and back with a vengeance.

Scheffler tied the Memorial Park course record with a masterful 8-under 62, which included zero bogies and 17 greens in regulation. He now sits atop the Texas Children’s Houston Open leaderboard at 11-under par, as he eyes his first win of the 2025 PGA Tour season.

Scheffler, of course, won nine worldwide events last year, including seven times on the PGA Tour. He won a Green Jacket, the Olympics, and the FedEx Cup, with many comparing his 2024 campaign to that of Tiger Woods in the 2000s.

“Hit a lot of fairways out there, gave myself a lot of looks,” Scheffler said.

“I holed a good amount of putts today, holed a few long ones, which is always nice.”

Two weeks ago, at The Players Championship, Scheffler expressed frustration over his putting, saying that many of the putts that dropped in a year ago were not falling in this time around. But that was not the case on Friday at Memorial Park. Scheffler drained 112 feet worth of putts, ranking second in the field in strokes gained putting.

His day started on the 10th hole, where he drained a 10-footer for birdie. Then, Scheffler kept it going on the 11th, pouring in a 26-foot birdie try on this 189-yard par-3. You had a feeling he had the putter working on Friday right out of the gate, which would continue throughout his round.

“It’s nice anytime you see one of those go in,” Scheffler said of his make on the 11th.

“It was a good momentum to start the day.”

Later, at the par-5 16th, Scheffler stuffed his third shot to about six feet away and converted the birdie try. Then on the next hole, the par-4 17th, which has water all down the right side, Scheffler stuck a solid approach shot to within five feet and poured in his fourth birdie of the day.

And yet, Scheffler said his ball-striking could have been better. The stats show it somewhat too, as the World No. 1 ranked 13th among the field on Friday in strokes gained approach.

“It was a day where I felt like my ball-striking could have been a bit better and I was able to hole some putts,” Scheffler said.

“I hit a lot of greens but I felt like my irons were just barely off, and I felt like I could have been hitting them a little bit closer to the hole, but overall kept it on the green, kept giving myself looks. The way I was putting, I didn’t feel I had to force ‘em there by many pins if I wasn’t totally comfortable with the shot, so good results.”

Good results indeed.

Scheffler made four more birdies coming in on his back nine — the front side at Memorial Park. His par-breakers came on the 2nd, 5th, 7th, and 8th holes, with his birdie on the par-3 2nd coming via a 29-footer from below the hole.

He waxed poetic with his putter, and whenever Scheffler does that, he is borderline unstoppable.

Jack Milko is a golf staff writer for SB Nation’s Playing Through. Follow him on X @jack_milko.