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.
