The World No. 1 won seven times on Tour in 2024 including the Masters and the Players, plus the $25 million FedEx Cup.
Scottie Scheffler’s continued rise into golf’s all-time upper echelon added another bulletpoint Tuesday.
The world No. 1 was voted PGA Tour Player of the Year for 2024, collecting 91% of player votes, and joined Tiger Woods as the only players to win the Jack Nicklaus Award in three consecutive seasons. Woods won POY five times in a row from 1999 through 2003 and three more consecutively from 2005–07 among his 11 in all.
PGA Tour members who played at least 15 events in 2024 were eligible to vote, with Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy also on the ballot.Scheffler won his first FedEx Cup and its $25 million prize, capping a seven-win season that was the first one on Tour since Woods in 2007., two years after his first, and became the first to win two consecutive Players Championships.
Last week Scheffler added an unofficial win at the 20-man Hero World Challenge, his next stroke-play event will be the 2025 season-opening Sentry at Kapalua in Hawaii. Next week he’ll team up with McIlroy to play LIV Golf members Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in an exhibition match in Las Vegas.John Schwarb is a senior editor for Sports Illustrated covering golf. Prior to joining SI in March 2022, he worked for ESPN.com, PGATour.com, Tampa Bay Times and Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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