Scottie Scheffler continues Tiger-like dominance with season-ending title

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Then there’s the historic marks that Woods didn’t obtain, together with Scheffler changing into the primary participant to win a serious, The Gamers and the FedExCup in the identical season. Scheffler additionally set a brand new mark for earnings with a powerful $62 million in whole compensation, together with his (unofficial) $25 million FedExCup and $8 million Comcast Enterprise Tour High 10 bonuses. It’s price noting amid skilled golf’s arm race that Scheffler’s whole on-course revenue, together with these two well-earned bonuses, is greater than any NFL quarterback will make this season in common base wage.

Nevertheless it’s Scheffler’s sustained brilliance and his unmatched consistency that places him alongside Woods. Over the past three seasons he’s received 13 occasions beginning together with his breakthrough Tour victory on the 2022 WM Phoenix Open.

“His consistency, his angle, I really feel like he simply form of brings the identical demeanor to the course each single day, it doesn’t matter what place on the leaderboard he’s in,” McIlroy mentioned of Scheffler. “He’s simply wonderful to look at, the best way he manages himself across the golf course. Yeah, we’ll look again on 2024 and it’s clearly probably the greatest particular person years {that a} participant has had for a very long time.”

That demeanor was examined halfway by the ultimate spherical at East Lake with a tee shot at No. 7 that bounced simply in need of the out-of-bounds marker (bogey) and a shanked shot from the bunker at No. 8 (bogey) that lower his as soon as commanding lead over Collin Morikawa to simply two strokes. But he by no means seemed flustered or overwhelmed.

He adopted these snafus with three consecutive birdies and an eagle on the 14^th gap that felt like an announcement, an exclamation level on a season that’s been equal components chic and surreal.

“I used to be undoubtedly pissed off. I’ve been taking part in actually strong golf the remainder of the week. I simply occurred to have two unhealthy holes in a row, mainly,” mentioned Scheffler, who closed with a 67 for a 30-under whole that included (insert asterisk) his 10-under starting-strokes benefit. “[Caddie Ted Scott] did a superb job of reminding me that we’re nonetheless in command of the event, I’m nonetheless taking part in nice, simply get out and get again to work, mainly, is the speech he sort gave me, is simply get again to work, and that’s what we did.”