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Scottie Scheffler joins Tiger Woods in rarefied air
Doug Ferguson •  December 16th, 2025 3:08 pm
Scottie Scheffler is stacking up the numbers the way Tiger Woods did early in his career | Photo: AP
Scottie Scheffler earned another comparison with Tiger Woods on Tuesday (NZ time), joining him as the only players to win PGA Tour player of the year at least four times in a row.
Scheffler made an easy case to pick up another Jack Nicklaus Award. His tour-leading six victories were twice as many as anyone else and included two majors, the PGA Championship and the British Open, to leave him on the cusp of a career grand slam.
He became the first player since Woods in 2000 to lead the PGA Tour with the lowest scoring average in each of the four rounds and had 15 consecutive tournaments in the top 10 to end his remarkable season.
"I think overall the thing that I'm most proud of when I look at the last couple years is just consistency," Scheffler said on a conference call.
"It's not very easy to just show up and finish in the top 10 each week. I think that's something that's very difficult to do and something I'm very proud of, bringing the intensity that I need to in these tournaments and being prepared as I need to in order to perform well week in and week out."
Scottie Scheffler | Photo: AP
Scheffler was on the ballot with Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Ben Griffin. The award is a vote of the players, though the PGA Tour did not release what percentage of the votes Scheffler received or how many players voted.
Woods is an 11-time winner of the award and won five straight times from 1999 through 2003.
McIlroy had a big year in his own right, nothing grander than his playoff victory in the Masters for the final leg of the career grand slam and a green jacket he had been pursuing for 15 years. He also added titles at Pebble Beach and The Players Championship.
Scheffler, however, has been putting on a master class of consistency since breaking through with his first PGA Tour title in 2022. Along with 19 victories in his last 80 events on the PGA Tour - that doesn't include his Olympic gold medal last year in Paris - Scheffler has finished among the top three in just over 46 per cent of his PGA Tour starts.
This season alone, Scheffler led the PGA Tour in 17 statistical categories, ranging from his accuracy from tee-to-green and official earnings, which this year topped $US27 million.
And he effectively gave McIlroy and everyone else a head start. Scheffler sliced his right hand during Christmas last year while using a wine glass to cut ravioli. He missed nearly two months and didn't really find his groove until a week before the Masters when he was runner-up in Houston.
Aldrich Potgieter was voted PGA Tour rookie of the year. He was among five rookies who won this year, but the South African was the only player to win a tournament that offered full FedEx Cup points and qualify for the postseason.
