Scottie Scheffler wins PGA Tour Player of the Year for third consecutive season

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Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Tour’s Jack Nicklaus Award for the third consecutive season, joining Tiger Woods as the only player to accomplish the feat….

Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Tour’s Jack Nicklaus Award for the third consecutive season, joining Tiger Woods as the only player to accomplish the feat.

Scheffler received 91% of the members’ votes, becoming player of the year ahead of two-time major winners Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy.

The world No. 1 has won seven PGA Tour titles in 2024, including the Masters Tournament, Players Championship, Tour Championship and four marquee events. His victory at East Lake also secured the FedExCup title for the entire season.

Additionally, Scheffler won gold at the Paris Olympics and earned over $60 million in official earnings and bonuses.

“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 PGA Tour, Jay Monahan, in a press release. statement.

Schauffele, a PGA and Open champion, is the first player to win two majors in one season and not be voted player of the year since the award began in 1990 (Nick Faldo won the Masters and the Open in 1990, but was not a Tour member).

Scheffler is the second player in Tour history to win this peer-voted honor three consecutive times. Woods did it from 1999 to 2003 and again from 2005 to 2007.

“There’s really only one Tiger,” Scheffler said in a conference call. “I try to get the best out of myself and that’s really all I focus on. I’m not chasing records or history or anything like that, I’m just trying to keep getting a little better, day by day, to go out there and compete, to compete. amuse.

Scheffler, Woods (11 times, most recently in 2013) and Rory McIlroy (2012, ’14, ’19) are the only players to win the Nicklaus Award three times during their careers.

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