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How good has Scottie Scheffler‘s remarkable 2023-24 PGA Tour season been? Well, halfway through the season Scheffler has already broken the PGA Tour record for earnings record for a single season
After his win at the Memorial Tournament on Sunday, Scheffler has now made more than $24 million in official earnings on tour this year.
In 13 starts this year, Scottie Scheffler has now made $24,024,553 in official earnings. That's $1.848 million per start.
(I literally checked my calculations on that seven times. Unreal.)
— Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelGolf) June 9, 2024
Who held the previous record, you might ask?
Tiger Woods? No. Rory McIlroy? Nope.
Turns out, Scheffler broke his own record set just last season when he brought home $21 million.Who held the record before that? Yup, you guessed it. That would also be Scheffler at a “measly” $14 million.
Jordan Spieth held the record from 2015-22, before it was eclipsed by Scheffler.
Now you may say to yourself, “Scheffler has a massive advantage due to the increase in purse size the last two seasons.”
And that is true. But that doesn’t change the fact that he has repeatedly broken his own record in that time. It also took him nowhere near an entire season to do it again this year.
Scheffler has already played in 13 events this year. He has won five of them. And they’re not small tournaments either!
Just take a look at his hit list for this season: The Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Players Championship, The Masters, The RBC Heritage and The Masters.
That’s one major and four of what the PGA Tour has deemed Signature Events.
Oh, and he’s probably not done winning.
DraftKings currently lists Scheffler at +280 to win this week’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst. That is an eye-watering low line for any golf tournament, let alone a U.S. Open at an extremely difficult venue.
Those are numbers that only Tiger Woods has ever touched.
But Scheffler deserves it. He’s having one of the greatest season’s in the game’s history, and he’s smashing records in the process.