Scheffler was named PGA Tour Player of the Year for the second year in a row,
Top Maven Top Pro Bowl Poll with Brock Purdy – San Francisco 49ers Scotty Scheffler was named PGA Tour Player of the Year for the second year in a row, becoming the first player to win the honor in consecutive years. This is because Tiger Woods won three consecutive championships from 2005 to 2007.
Schaeffler, who won both the 2023 Players Championship and the WM Phoenix Open, received the honor after a five-win season that included the previous year’s Masters. Eric Cole, the only rookie to qualify for the BMW Championship, was named the PGA Tour Player of the Year. Schaeffler received 38 percent of the player vote in December, according to tournament data. December 1 and 15. He did not reveal the scores of other competitors John Rahm, Victor Hovland, Wyndham Clarke and Rory McIlroy. Scotty Scheffler won the 2023 WM Phoenix Open and The Players Championship. Fernando Llano/AP Fernando Llano/AP Rahm has won four times in 2023 and is the reigning Masters champion, the only person other than Clark to win a major. Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year award on Tuesday. Rahm later joined the LIV Golf League. Hovland has won three times: the 2023 Memorial, the BMW Championship and the Touring Championship. The latest title means he is the season-long FedEx Cup champion. In addition to the Wells Fargo Championship, Clark also won the US Open. And McIlroy won the Scottish Open. Seffler, who won his sixth PGA Tour title, took the top spot.
The number one player in the world has been rewarded with incredible consistency. He has 13 top-5s and 17 top-10s, the most by a PGA Tour player since 2005, when Vijay Singh and Woods each had 13 top-5s and Singh had 18 top-10s. Scheffler also set a PGA Tour record for official money won in a season with $21,014,342. He joins Fred Fairs (1991-92), Nick Price (1993-94) and Woods (five times in 1999-2003 and three times in 2005-2007) to win the Jack Nicklaus Award in multiple seasons. His batting average was 68.63, the lowest since Woods’ 68.05 in 2009.
Cole, 35, became the second-oldest winner of Rookie of the Year, 50 years after her mother, Laura Baugh, won Rookie of the Year on the LPGA Tour.
