During Sunday's Tour Championship broadcast, NBC's Dan Hicks mentioned the event's "brand-new format," which must have been confusing to some fans. On one hand, the PGA Tour's season finale had switched from a controversial format featured the past six years.

Scheffler, and the Tour Championship by its nature, opened the door for all of this. But only four shots back, feeling like he’s centimeters off from a tournament-shifting round, Scheffler is still right there. And despite the frustrations, he knows it.