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How good has Scottie Scheffler‘s outstanding 2023-24 PGA Tour season been? Properly, midway by the season Scheffler has already damaged the PGA Tour document for earnings document for a single season
After his win on the Memorial Event on Sunday, Scheffler has now made greater than $24 million in official earnings on tour this 12 months.
In 13 begins this 12 months, Scottie Scheffler has now made $24,024,553 in official earnings. That is $1.848 million per begin.
(I actually checked my calculations on that seven instances. Unreal.)
— Jason Sobel (@JasonSobelGolf) June 9, 2024
Who held the earlier document, you would possibly ask?
Tiger Woods? No. Rory McIlroy? Nope.
Seems, Scheffler broke his personal document set simply final season when he introduced house $21 million.Who held the document earlier than that? Yup, you guessed it. That will even be Scheffler at a “measly” $14 million.
Jordan Spieth held the document from 2015-22, earlier than it was eclipsed by Scheffler.
Now chances are you’ll say to your self, “Scheffler has a large benefit as a result of enhance in purse dimension the final two seasons.”
And that’s true. However that doesn’t change the truth that he has repeatedly damaged his personal document in that point. It additionally took him nowhere close to a whole season to do it once more this 12 months.
Scheffler has already performed in 13 occasions this 12 months. He has gained 5 of them. And so they’re not small tournaments both!
Simply check out his hit checklist for this season: The Arnold Palmer Invitational, The Gamers Championship, The Masters, The RBC Heritage and The Masters.
That’s one main and 4 of what the PGA Tour has deemed Signature Occasions.
Oh, and he’s in all probability not performed successful.
DraftKings presently lists Scheffler at +280 to win this week’s U.S. Open at Pinehurst. That’s an eye-watering low line for any golf event, not to mention a U.S. Open at an especially troublesome venue.
These are numbers that solely Tiger Woods has ever touched.
However Scheffler deserves it. He’s having one of many best season’s within the sport’s historical past, and he’s smashing data within the course of.
