Seemingly every single time Scottie Scheffler wins a golf tournament—and there's obviously been a lot of that over the last three and a half years—he joins Tiger Woods in some sort of exclusive club.
For instance, when Scheffler won the PGA Championship a few weeks back, he joined Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players since World War II to capture 15 PGA Tour titles and at least three major championships before the age of 29.
And with a four-shot win over Ben Griffin at the Memorial Tournament on Sunday—right in front of Nicklaus, of course—Scottie became just the second back-to-back winner in the event's 50-year history. Naturally, Tiger, who owns five career victories at Muirfield Village, was the first to do so in 1999 and 2000, ultimately adding a third straight title in 2001.
In 2000, a season during which Tiger won nine times, his next start after the Memorial was the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, where he won by a ridiculous 15 shots.
As Scheffler is skipping this week's RBC Canadian Open, his next start will be at the U.S. Open at Oakmont. And while it's highly unlikely he'll win by 15—that's just never going to happen again—he'll undoubtedly be the favorite going into the year's third major.
And it won't surprise anyone if the world No. 1 follows in Tiger's footsteps yet again by going back-to-back at the Memorial and then the U.S. Open. After all, he has won three of his last four starts and tied for fourth in the event he didn't win.
And during this four-tournament stretch over the last month, Scheffler has pocketed close to $10 million, which just goes to show how much things have changed in the last quarter-century, as that's more than Tiger earned during the entire 2000 campaign.
Scottie Scheffler has earned more than $9.62 million in his last four starts
In 20 official starts on the PGA Tour in 2000, Tiger Woods earned $9,188,321, which was then the largest single-season figure in history. For those interested in seeing what that number would be in today's dollars, I recently broke that down HERE, and it's absurd.
Tiger, of course, was the main reason why purses grew exponentially after the turn of the century, and with the addition of Signature Events a few years back, more money than ever is up for grabs on the PGA Tour on an annual basis, and Scheffler has taken full advantage.
In just 142 official PGA Tour starts, Scheffler has collected $86,352,284, which already has him in fourth on the all-time money list, trailing only Tiger, Rory McIlroy, and Phil Mickelson. And as mentioned, close to $10 million of that has come in the last month alone. Take a look.
Tournament (Finish) | Earnings |
|---|---|
CJ Cup Byron Nelson (1) | $1,782,000 |
PGA Championship (1) | $3,420,000 |
Charles Schwab Challenge (T4) | $427,500 |
Memorial Tournament (1) | $4,000,000 |
Total | $9,629,500 |
For those not wanting to do the math, Scheffler has earned $441,179 more in a month than what Tiger did in all of 2000.
And with Scottie's total 2025 earnings at $14,558,697, he's already $5,370,376 ahead of where Woods ended his historic campaign. And that's with two major championships, one Signature Event (Travelers Championship), and the lucrative FedEx Cup Playoffs still left to play, not to mention any other events in which he chooses to participate.