Scottie Scheffler gained the PGA Tour’s Jack Nicklaus Award for the third consecutive season, becoming a member of Tiger Woods as the one gamers to perform that feat.
Scheffler acquired 91% of the membership vote, incomes participant of the yr over two-time main winner Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy.
The world No. 1 captured seven PGA Tour titles in 2024, together with the Masters Match, The Gamers Championship, the Tour Championship and 4 signature occasions. His victory at East Lake additionally secured the season-long FedExCup title.
Moreover, Scheffler gained gold on the Paris Olympics and earned greater than $60 million in official earnings and bonuses.
“On behalf of the PGA Tour, congratulations to Scottie Scheffler on a really historic season, capped off together with his first FedExCup title and at the moment a 3rd consecutive Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA Tour participant of the yr,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan stated in an announcement.
Schauffele, the PGA and Open champion, is the primary participant to win two majors in a season and never be voted participant of the yr for the reason that award started in 1990 (Nick Faldo gained the Masters and Open in ’90, however was not a Tour member).
Scheffler is the second participant in Tour historical past to win this peer-voted honor on three straight events. Woods did so from 1999-2003 and once more from 2005-07.
Scheffler, Woods (11 instances, most lately in 2013) and Rory McIlroy (2012, ’14, ’19) are the one gamers to have gained the Nicklaus award thrice of their profession.
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