Scottie Scheffler’s 2024 season earned him comparisons to Tiger Woods. This is what the numbers say.
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The previous 12 months had all of it — loopy profitable streaks, new main champs, a major-week arrest (!) and extra. With 2025 on the horizon, our writers are trying again on the most memorable moments from 2024.
No. 15 — Charley Hull goes viral | No. 14 — LIV, LPGA CEOs say goodbye | No. 13— Solheim Cup parking fiasco | No. 12 — Phoenix Open chaos | No. 11 — Lydia Ko’s Corridor of Fame resurgence | No. 10 — PGA Tour/Saudi PIF merger stalemate | No. 9 — Keegan Bradley named Ryder Cup captain | No. 8 — Lexi Thompson steps away | No. 7 — Xander Schauffele’s main breakthrough | No. 6 – AK’s return to golf | No. 5 — Nelly Korda’s dominance | No. 4 — Bryson DeChambeau’s star flip
Greatest golf moments of 2024 No. 3: Scottie Scheffler’s whole season
Let’s rejoice this momentous spot in our year-end countdown by counting up. We’ve run out of the way to explain Scottie Scheffler’s brilliance with phrases — let’s attempt numbers right here as a substitute.
Scottie Scheffler completed first (1) in a preposterous variety of classes, together with strokes gained, scoring common, official cash, a couple of dozen different essential classes and the most important of all: world rating.
Scheffler’s April victory means he now has two (2) Masters victories, making him certainly one of simply 18 individuals in that unique membership.
Scheffler gained PGA Tour Participant of the 12 months, becoming a member of Tiger Woods as the one gamers to win the award three (3) consecutive occasions.
Scheffler reeled off 4 (4) wins in 5 begins in March and April, when he claimed the Arnold Palmer, the Gamers, the Masters and the RBC Heritage. The disappointing fifth event in that span? He completed T2 on the Houston Open, simply lacking a putt that may have earned him a spot in a playoff.
Scheffler shot 5 (5) below par at Valhalla the day of his notorious arrest on Friday of the PGA Championship. He’d go on to complete T8 for the week.
Scheffler led the PGA Tour with seven (7) official wins, essentially the most in a season since Tiger Woods had eight in 2006.
Scheffler actually had 9 (9) wins, in the event you depend the Hero World Problem (which you most likely ought to) and Olympic gold (which you must depend, like, additional).
Scheffler break up ten million {dollars} (10) in crypto with Rory McIlroy after the 2 bested Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in the Showdown in December. He urged this is likely to be the motivation he must study what crypto actually is.
Scheffler now has 13 (13) profession wins — all 13 coming since Ted Scott grew to become his caddie forward of the 2022 season.
Scheffler’s sixteen (16) prime 10s led the PGA Tour despite the fact that he performed simply 19 occasions; solely Xander Schauffele additionally had double digits.
Scheffler’s twenty-nine (29) on the again 9 within the closing spherical of the Olympics earned him gold; it was arguably essentially the most unimaginable single 9 of the season.
Scheffler has now made forty-four (44) cuts in a row; his final MC got here on the 2022 Genesis Scottish Open. It’s value noting that loads of Scheffler’s begins lately are available in no-cut occasions, however nonetheless — 44 is not any joke. Simply two different golfers at present have streaks longer than 17.
Scheffler’s victory on the Hero World Problem earned him a closing $1 million, pushing him over sixty-three million ($63) for the season simply in on-course earnings if you depend his winnings (greater than $30 million) plus a FedEx Cup bonus ($25 million) and a Comcast bonus ($8 million).
Scheffler’s scoring common (68.01) set a brand new PGA Tour report.
We’ll see what 2025 brings.
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