It shouldn’t be a surprise considering how dominant his season was, 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 on Tuesday evening. He is now the first golfer since Tiger Woods almost twenty years ago to win the award in three consecutive seasons.
Only Scheffler and Woods have won the award in three consecutive seasons. Woods has won the awards eleven times in his career, most recently in 2013, and five times in a row between 1999 and 2003. Rory McIlroy has also won the title three times, most recently in 2019, although there has been at least a season between his victories each time.
The Tour’s Player of the Year award is determined 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, we congratulate 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,” commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement. “Scottie took on the challenges of the world’s best players on the biggest stages all season long, and being named PGA Tour Player of the Year is the ultimate sign of respect from his peers.”
Scheffler won seven times on the Tour last season, bringing his total number of career victories to thirteen. He finished outside the top 10 just once in thirteen starts before the US Open in June, and he took four wins in five starts in March. and April – including a second straight win at The Players Championship and a win at the Masters. Scheffler hasn’t missed a cut in his 19 starts on Tour, including 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 did so in 2007. He has been number 1 in the official World Golf Rankings for 82 weeks in a row. Scheffler also won gold at the Paris Olympics, and he helped lead the United States to a victory at the Presidents Cup in Canada earlier this fall.
In the midst of his victories, prior to the second round. Scheffler attempted to drive onto the golf course before the second round of the tournament, although 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. An officer pulled Scheffler out of the car and arrested him, but Scheffler was booked and released in time to make his starting time as scheduled. He then posted 5-under, which was the second-best score of the day. The charges were ultimately dismissed.
The 2025 PGA Tour season officially kicks off in January at The Sentry in Hawaii, the first of eight signature events. Scheffler has played in that tournament the past two seasons (he finished in fifth place last season), but it is still unclear whether Scheffler will be in the field next month.
