Scottie Scheffler joins Tiger Woods in winning PGA Tour Player of the Year award for third straight time
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, considering how dominant his season has been, but Scottie Scheffler made even more PGA Tour history on…
It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, considering how dominant his season has been, but Scottie Scheffler made even more PGA Tour history on Tuesday.
Scheffler officially won his third consecutive Player of the Year award, the Tour announced Tuesday evening. He is now the first golfer since Tiger Woods nearly twenty years ago to win this award three consecutive seasons.
They are the only two players to have achieved the hat-trick. Woods has won this award 11 times in his career, most recently in 2013, and he won it five times in a row between 1999 and 2003. Rory McIlroy has also won it three times, most recently in 2019, although that his victories had at least one season between them each time.
The Tour Player of the Year award is decided by a vote of the members. Scheffler received 91% of the votes from other golfers. McIlroy and Xander Schauffele were also nominated.
“On behalf of the PGA Tour, congratulations to Scottie Scheffler on a truly historic season, capped by his first FedExCup title and today a third consecutive Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA Tour Player of the Year,” the commissioner said of the PGA, Jay Monahan, in a press release. . “Scottie has met challenges from the world’s best players on the biggest stages all season, and being honored as PGA Tour Player of the Year is the ultimate sign of respect from his peers.”
Scheffler scored a remarkable seven victories on Tour last season, bringing his career victory total to 13. He finished outside the top 10 just once in 13 starts before the US Open in June, and he had four wins in five starts in March. and April – which included a second consecutive victory at the Players Championship and a victory at the Masters. Scheffler hasn’t missed a cut in his 19 Tour starts, and he won his first FedExCup with his victory at the Tour Championship in September. Scheffler also won the unofficial Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas last week.
Scheffler is now the first player to win seven or more times in a single season since Woods in 2007. He has held his No. 1 spot in the Official World Golf Ranking for 82 consecutive weeks. Scheffler also won gold at the Paris Olympics and helped the United States win the Presidents Cup in Canada earlier this fall.
Amid his victories, Scheffler also finished T8 at the PGA Championship in May despite being arrested before the second round. Scheffler was trying to enter the golf course and the scene in front of the Kentucky course was chaotic after a vendor was struck and killed by a shuttle bus around 5 a.m. that morning. A police officer pulled Scheffler from the car and arrested him, but Scheffler was arrested and released in time to make his scheduled departure time. He then posted a score of 5 under, which was the second best score of the day. The charges were eventually dropped.
The 2025 PGA Tour season will officially begin in January at the Sentry in Hawaii, which is the first of eight marquee events. Scheffler has competed in this tournament in each of the last two seasons – he finished T5 last season – but it remains unclear whether he will be in the field next month.
