Scottie Scheffler accomplished something on Sunday at TPC River Highlands that only five players had done before him.
None of the previous five players were also named Tiger Woods or Jack Nicklaus.
Scheffler won the Travelers Championship in a playoff against Tom Kim for his sixth win of the season, becoming the sixth player in PGA Tour history to win that many times before July. The previous five: Jimmy DeMaret (1940), Byron Nelson (1945), Ben Hogan (1946), Sam Snead (1950) and Arnold Palmer, the only person to accomplish the feat twice (1960, 1962).
Prior to the Travelers, Scheffler recorded victories at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players, Masters Tournament, RBC Heritage and Memorial Tournament.
Scheffler’s six wins also make him just the fourth different player in the past 40 years to win at least six times in a single Tour season. Tiger Woods and Vijay Singh won nine times each, in 2000 and 2004 respectively. Woods won eight times in 1999 and 2006, seven times in 2007 and six times in 2005 and 2009. Nick Price won six times in 1994.
