Scottie Scheffler earned one other comparability with Tiger Woods on Monday when he joined him as the one gamers to win PGA Tour participant of the 12 months no less than 4 instances in a row.
Scheffler made a straightforward case to select up one other Jack Nicklaus Award – his tour-leading six victories had been twice as many as anybody else and included two majors, the PGA Championship and the British Open, to go away him on the cusp of a profession Grand Slam.
He turned the primary participant since Woods in 2000 to steer the PGA Tour with the bottom scoring common in every of the 4 rounds and had 15 consecutive tournaments within the high 10 to finish his exceptional season.
Scheffler chipped in for birdie on the seventeenth gap of his closing spherical on the BMW Championship
“General the factor that I am most happy with after I take a look at the final couple years is simply consistency,” Scheffler mentioned.
“It isn’t very simple to only present up and end within the high 10 every week.
“That is one thing that is very tough to do and one thing I am very happy with, bringing the depth that I must in these tournaments and being ready as I must as a way to carry out effectively week in and week out.”
Scheffler was on the poll with Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Ben Griffin. The award is a vote of the gamers, although the PGA Tour didn’t launch what proportion of the votes Scheffler acquired or what number of gamers voted.
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Woods is an 11-time winner of the award and received 5 straight instances from 1999 via 2003.
McIlroy had an enormous 12 months in his personal proper, nothing grander than his playoff victory within the Masters for the ultimate leg of the profession Grand Slam and a inexperienced jacket he had been pursuing for 15 years. He additionally added titles at Pebble Seaside and The Gamers Championship.
Scheffler, nonetheless, has been placing on a masterclass of consistency since breaking via along with his first PGA Tour title in 2022.
Together with 19 victories in his final 80 occasions on the PGA Tour – not together with his Olympic gold medal final 12 months in Paris – Scheffler has completed among the many high three in simply over 46 per cent of his PGA Tour begins.
This season alone, Scheffler led the PGA Tour in 17 statistical classes, starting from his accuracy from tee-to-green, how typically he adopted a bogey with a birdie or higher (36 per cent) and official earnings, which this 12 months topped $27m.
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And he successfully gave McIlroy and everybody else a head begin. Scheffler sliced his proper hand throughout Christmas final 12 months whereas utilizing a wine glass to chop ravioli.
He missed almost two months and did not actually discover his groove till every week earlier than The Masters when he was runner-up in Houston.
That started an astonishing stretch during which Scheffler did not end worse than a tie for eighth the remainder of the 12 months. He performed his closing six PGA Tour occasions with no spherical over par, and he had a stretch of 21 consecutive rounds within the 60s.
He additionally received his hometown CJ Cup Byron Nelson within the Dallas space by matching the PGA Tour document for 72 holes at 253, an eight-shot victory.
Neither of his two main titles had been significantly shut. He received the PGA Championship at Quail Hole by 5 pictures and the British Open at Royal Portrush by 4 pictures.
In all 4 of his majors – he additionally received The Masters in 2022 and 2024 – he has had no less than a four-shot lead going to the ultimate gap.
“I am probably not choosy, if I am holding the trophy on the finish, it does not actually matter,” Scheffler mentioned with amusing.
Aldrich Potgieter was voted PGA Tour rookie of the 12 months. He was amongst 5 rookies who received this 12 months, however the South African was the one participant to win a event that provided full FedEx Cup factors and qualify for the postseason.
