Scottie Scheffler wins PGA Tour player of the year for third straight season

Scottie Scheffler won the PGA Tour’s Jack Nicklaus Award for the third consecutive season, joining Tiger Woods as the only players to accomplish that feat.

Scheffler received 91% of the membership vote, earning player of the year over two-time major winner Xander Schauffele and Rory McIlroy.

The world No. 1 captured seven PGA Tour titles in 2024, including the Masters Tournament, The Players Championship, the Tour Championship and four signature events. His victory at East Lake also secured the season-long FedExCup title.

Additionally, Scheffler won gold at the Paris Olympics and earned more than $60 million in official earnings and bonuses.

“On behalf of the PGA Tour, congratulations to Scottie Scheffler on a truly historic season, capped off with his first FedExCup title and today a third consecutive Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA Tour player of the year,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said in a statement.

Schauffele, the PGA and Open champion, is the first player to win two majors in a season and not be voted player of the year since the award began in 1990 (Nick Faldo won the Masters and Open in ’90, but was not a Tour member).

Scheffler is the second player in Tour history to win this peer-voted honor on three straight occasions. Woods did so from 1999-2003 and again from 2005-07.

Scheffler, Woods (11 times, most recently in 2013) and Rory McIlroy (2012, ’14, ’19) are the only players to have won the Nicklaus award three times in their career.