Scottie Scheffler obtained his sixth victory of the year on the PGA Tour on Sunday. The American gan� el Travelers Championship, thus adding his twelfth victory on the American circuit. In 2024, the world number one has won the Arnold Palmer, The Players, Masters, RBC Heritage, Memorial y Travelersthat is, five high tournaments and one big one.
Until now they had only reached the month of July with six wins Jimmy Demaret (1940), Byron Nelson (1945), Ben Hogan (1946), Sam Snead (1950) y Arnold Palmer (1960 y 1962). And the group of players who have won at least six times in a single season on the PGA Tour in the last 40 years is small: Tiger Woods (6 veces), Vijay Singh y Nick Price. The record for wins in a year is for the first two, with nine. We’ll see how far Scheffler goes.
Where he is about to settle is on the all-time earnings podium of the PGA Tour. This campa�a Scottiewho has just turned 28 years old, accumulates 27.696.858 $ and of course no one comes even remotely close to him. After him they appear Xander Schauffele (12.636.360 $) y Rory McIlory ($10,034,665). Let us remember that until now the record for earnings in a year is held by Scheffler himself: 21,014,342 in the 2022/23 season and then there is Jon Rahm 16,522,608, also in 2022/23 .
By contrast, although the prizes were not the same by any means, Tiger Woods earned $10.8 million in 2006/07 and Vijay Singh 10.9 million $ in 2004. And, although it is not the same circuit, who is profiting the most this year in the LIFE Golf es Joaquín Niemann, who has $12,039,500although without computing the benefits achieved from the team competition.
In the history of the PGA Tour, it can be safely said that Scheffler will enter the ‘top 3’ very soon. This is the classification with Tiger still in front.
