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Scottie Scheffler earned different examination with Tiger Woods connected Monday, joining him arsenic the lone players to triumph PGA Tour subordinate of the twelvemonth astatine slightest 4 times successful a row.
Scheffler made an casual lawsuit to prime up different Jack Nicklaus Award. His tour-leading six victories were doubly arsenic galore arsenic anyone other and included 2 majors, the PGA Championship and the British Open, to permission him connected the cusp of a vocation Grand Slam.
He became the archetypal subordinate since Woods successful 2000 to pb the PGA Tour with the lowest scoring mean successful each of the 4 rounds and had 15 consecutive tournaments successful the apical 10 to extremity his singular season.
"I deliberation wide the happening that I'm astir arrogant of erstwhile I look astatine the past mates years is conscionable consistency," Scheffler said connected a league call. "It's not precise casual to conscionable amusement up and decorativeness successful the apical 10 each week. I deliberation that's thing that's precise hard to bash and thing I'm precise arrogant of, bringing the strength that I request to successful these tournaments and being prepared arsenic I request to successful bid to execute good week successful and week out."
FILE - Scottie Scheffler of the United States holds the Claret Jug trophy arsenic helium poses for photographers aft winning the British Open play title astatine the Royal Portrush Golf Club, Northern Ireland, July 20, 2025.
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Scheffler was connected the ballot with Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Ben Griffin. The grant is simply a ballot of the players, though the PGA Tour did not merchandise what percent of the votes Scheffler received oregon however galore players voted.
Woods is an 11-time victor of the grant and won 5 consecutive times from 1999 done 2003.
McIlroy had a large twelvemonth successful his ain right, thing grander than his playoff triumph successful the Masters for the last limb of the vocation Grand Slam and a greenish overgarment helium had been pursuing for 15 years. He besides added titles astatine Pebble Beach and The Players Championship.
Scheffler, however, has been putting connected a maestro people of consistency since breaking done with his archetypal PGA Tour rubric successful 2022. Along with 19 victories successful his past 80 events connected the PGA Tour — that doesn't see his Olympic golden medal past twelvemonth successful Paris — Scheffler has finished among the apical 3 successful conscionable implicit 46% of his PGA Tour starts.
This play alone, Scheffler led the PGA Tour successful 17 statistical categories, ranging from his accuracy from tee-to-green, however often helium followed a bogey with a birdie oregon amended (36%) and authoritative earnings, which this twelvemonth topped $27 million.
And helium efficaciously gave McIlroy and everyone other a caput start. Scheffler sliced his close manus during Christmas past twelvemonth portion utilizing a vino solid to chopped ravioli. He missed astir 2 months and didn't truly find his groove until a week earlier the Masters, erstwhile helium was runner-up successful Houston.
That began an astonishing agelong successful which Scheffler didn't decorativeness worse than a necktie for eighth the remainder of the year. He played his last six PGA Tour events without a circular implicit par, and helium had a agelong of 21 consecutive rounds successful the 60s.
He besides won his hometown CJ Cup Byron Nelson successful the Dallas country by matching the PGA Tour grounds for 72 holes astatine 253, an eight-shot victory.
"Yeah, I decidedly didn't commencement disconnected the mode I intended to commencement off," Scheffler said. "I missed the archetypal mates weeks of the play but did a bully occupation of bouncing backmost from that. I started to play immoderate beauteous bully play successful May."
Neither of his 2 large titles was peculiarly close. He won the PGA Championship astatine Quail Hollow by 5 shots and the British Open astatine Royal Portrush by 4 shots. In each 4 of his majors — helium besides won the Masters successful 2022 and 2024 — helium has had astatine slightest a four-shot pb going to the last hole. Missing is simply a tense decorativeness to a major.
"I'm not truly picky. If I'm holding the trophy astatine the end, it doesn't truly matter," Scheffler said with a laugh.
Aldrich Potgieter was voted PGA Tour rookie of the year. He was among 5 rookies who won this year, but the South African was the lone subordinate to triumph a tourney that offered afloat FedEx Cup points and suffice for the postseason.
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