Scottie Scheffler voted PGA Tour Player of the Year over Jon Rahm who jumped to LIV Golf

03/01/2024 20:29

Twice is nice for Scottie Scheffler.

The 27-year-old Texan was named the winner of the Jack Nicklaus Award as the PGA Tour Player of the Year for the 2022-23 season. In doing so, he becomes the first player to win Player of the Year honors in back-to-back seasons since Tiger Woods won the award in three straight years from 2005-2007.

The Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards are determined by a member vote, with PGA Tour members who played in at least 15 official FedEx Cup events during the 2022-23 season eligible to vote. The voting period ran from Dec. 1 through Dec. 15. Scheffler received 38 percent of the vote for the Jack Nicklaus Award and was selected over four other nominees: Wyndham Clark, Viktor Hovland, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm.

Scheffler won twice during the 2022-23 season successfully defending his title at the WM Phoenix Open and winning the Players Championship by five strokes. In 23 starts, Scheffler recorded 13 top-fives and 17 top-10s, both high marks for any player in a single season on Tour since 2005, when Vijay Singh and Woods each had 13 top-fives and Singh had 18 top-10s. Scheffler set the Tour record for most official money earned in a single season at $21,014,342, breaking his own record set last season ($14,046,910).

Scheffler is the fourth player to win the Jack Nicklaus Award in back-to-back seasons since the award was established in 1990, joining Fred Couples (1991, 1992), Nick Price (1993, 1994), and Woods (five straight from 1999-2003, three straight from 2005-2007). McIlroy (three times) and Dustin Johnson (twice) are the only other players to win Player of the Year honors multiple times.

Scheffler also received the Byron Nelson Award for recording the lowest Scoring Average on Tour in 2022-23. At 68.63, Scheffler's Scoring Average was the lowest on Tour since Tiger Woods in 2009 (68.05).

Scheffler was presented the award at The Sentry.