Paris 2024 golf champion Scottie Scheffler wins PGA Tour Player of the Year for third consecutive season
The Paris 2024 Olympic gold medallist won with a resounding 91% of the votes from fellow players to match Tiger Woods in winning the award three years straight.
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Scottie Scheffler has been named the 2024 PGA Tour Player of the Year, the third year in a row he has collected the top award.
The golf gold medallist at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 was the overwhelming winner of the Jack Nicklaus Award, chosen by players of which 91% voted for him.
Scheffler becomes the first man in 17 years to win Player of the Year in three consecutive years, which had only been achieved by the great Tiger Woods in 2007.
He said as per the PGA, “It's tough to compare seasons, but I think in terms of the amount of tournaments I won and with having a major championship, The Players and the Olympics, I think when you look across the whole season I think it's the best golf that I've played in my career.”
Scheffler joins Woods and Rory McIlroy as the only men to be three-time winners of the award, the New Jersey-born man nominated alongside the latter and Team USA teammate Xander Schauffele.
The Olympic champion triumphed in Paris with a total of 265, pipping Tommy Fleetwood of Great Britain to the gold medal on his Olympic debut.
Scheffler said after winning the Player of the Year award, "I would say the nine holes that kind of sticks out to me the most maybe would be the back nine at the Olympics. The way that Teddy [Scott, Scheffler’s caddie] and I kind of finished off that tournament was pretty cool."
In 2024, the 28-year-old also recorded seven Tour wins, including his second Masters victory at the Augusta National and the tour’s championship trophy, the FedEx Cup.
Scheffler has been ranked world number one for 82 consecutive weeks and counting, recording more wins, more top 10s and a higher scoring average than anyone else on the tour.
The Jack Nicklaus Award is determined by a member vote, with all PGA Tour members who have played 15 events during the 2024 season eligible to cast their ballot.