Scheffler wins 4th straight PGA Tour participant of yr award

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Scottie Scheffler earned one other comparability with Tiger Woods on Monday, becoming a member of him as the one gamers to win PGA Tour participant of the yr no less than 4 instances in a row.

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Scheffler made a straightforward case to choose up one other Jack Nicklaus Award. His tour-leading six victories have 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.

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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 outstanding season.

“I feel total the factor that I’m most pleased with after I have a look at the final couple years is simply consistency,” Scheffler mentioned on a convention name. “It’s not very straightforward to only present up and end within the high 10 every week. I feel that’s one thing that’s very troublesome to do and one thing I’m very pleased with, bringing the depth that I have to in these tournaments and being ready as I have to with the intention to carry out properly week in and week out.”

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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 share of the votes Scheffler acquired or what number of gamers voted.

Woods is an 11-time winner of the award and received 5 straight instances from 1999 by 2003.

McIlroy had an enormous yr 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 Beach and The Players Championship.

Scheffler, nonetheless, has been placing on a grasp class of consistency since breaking by along with his first PGA Tour title in 2022. Along with 19 victories in his final 80 occasions on the PGA Tour _ that doesn’t embody his Olympic gold medal final yr in Paris _ Scheffler has completed among the many high three in simply over 46% of his PGA Tour begins.

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This season alone, Scheffler led the PGA Tour in 17 statistical classes, starting from his accuracy from tee-to-green, how usually he adopted a bogey with a birdie or higher (36%) and official earnings, which this yr topped $27 million.

And he successfully gave McIlroy and everybody else a head begin. Scheffler sliced his proper hand throughout Christmas final yr whereas utilizing a wine glass to chop ravioli. He missed practically two months and didn’t actually discover his groove till every week earlier than the Masters when he was runner-up in Houston.

That started an astonishing stretch through which Scheffler didn’t end worse than a tie for eighth the remainder of the yr. He performed his closing six PGA Tour occasions and not using a spherical over par, and he had a stretch of 21 consecutive rounds within the 60s.

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He additionally received his hometown CJ Cup Byron Nelson within the Dallas space by matching the PGA Tour file for 72 holes at 253, an eight-shot victory.

“Yeah, I positively didn’t begin off the best way I supposed to start out off,” Scheffler mentioned. “I missed the primary couple weeks of the season however did a great job of bouncing again from that. I began to play some fairly good golf in May.”

Neither of his two main titles was significantly shut. He received the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow 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. Missing is a tense end to a significant.

“I’m not likely choosy. If I’m holding the trophy on the finish, it doesn’t actually matter,” Scheffler mentioned with fun.

Aldrich Potgieter was voted PGA Tour rookie of the yr. He was amongst 5 rookies who received this yr, however the South African was the one participant to win a event that provided full FedEx Cup factors and qualify for the postseason.

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