Scottie Scheffler celebrates his FedEx Cup win with son his Bennett on the 2024 Tour Championship.
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What grew to become all however inevitable on September 1st on the Tour Championship grew to become official on Tuesday: the PGA Tour introduced that World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler had been named recipient of the PGA Tour’s Jack Nicklaus Award for Participant of the Yr in 2024.
Scheffler gained an unimaginable seven official PGA Tour occasions in 2024, together with his second Masters title in April and his second-straight Gamers Championship in March.
The seven wins don’t depend two different victories the 28-year-old Texan recorded this yr: the gold medal on the Paris Olympics and final week’s Hero World Problem.
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Xander Schauffele no less than made the competition fascinating this summer time, profitable two main titles on the PGA Championship and Open Championship. With these huge wins, some questioned whether or not Schauffele would deserve Participant of the Yr honors if he went on to win the FedEx Cup title as nicely. However Scheffler stomped out that chance by profitable the Tour Championship and FedEx Cup himself, together with its $25 million bonus.
Together with his bonuses, Scheffler revamped $63 million on the course throughout his most up-to-date Participant of the Yr marketing campaign.
That is Scheffler’s third-straight PGA Tour Participant of the Yr win, becoming a member of Tiger Woods as the one gamers to win the Jack Nicklaus Award in three consecutive years. Woods achieved the feat twice, profitable 5 in a row from 1999-2003 and three in a row from 2005-2007. In all Woods has 11 Jack Nicklaus Awards. Rory McIlroy is the one different participant with three.
The Jack Nicklaus Award is decided by a vote amongst gamers who competed in no less than 15 PGA Tour occasions this season. Scheffler gained with a whopping 91% of the vote in line with the PGA Tour, with Schauffele and McIlroy additionally receiving votes.
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PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan congratulated Scheffler in a press launch saying the award, writing, “On behalf of the PGA Tour, congratulations to Scottie Scheffler on a really historic season, capped off together with his first FedExCup title and right this moment a 3rd consecutive Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA Tour Participant of the Yr. Scottie took on challenges from the very best gamers on this planet on the most important levels all season, and being honored as PGA Tour Participant of the Yr is the final word signal of respect from his friends.”
Scheffler’s seven Tour wins in his profitable Participant of the Yr marketing campaign have been probably the most in a single season by any participant since Woods in 2007, and Scheffler has been put in on the high of the Official World Golf Rating for 82-consecutive weeks. He additionally gained the 2024 Byron Nelson Award for lowest scoring common for a second-straight season, ending the yr with a mean of 68.65.
