Welcome to Taking part in Via’s new morning ritual: Golf Discuss As we speak.
Every morning will function a Golf Discuss As we speak, wherein the crew will focus on varied components of the PGA Tour, LIV Golf and different skilled golf tournaments.
As we speak’s dialogue is on Scottie Scheffler and the amount of cash he has received since January 1, 2024. The final time we did this was after his Vacationers Championship victory, giving him six wins on the season.
Just a few months later, he turned the 2024 FedEx Cup champion after he took residence the title at East Lake and obtained a hefty $25 million bonus examine. He additionally received $8 million for ending No. 1 on the Comcast Enterprise Tour’s standings. Since that Traveler’s win in June, he received $34,531,499 and a Gold Medal on the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The place does it stack up amongst single-season information and profession all-time?
Scheffler’s cash whole from Jan. 1 to Sept. 1, 2024, is $62,228,357.
Granted, the $33 million in bonuses doesn’t rely in direction of his season-long earnings. Nonetheless, it’s mind-blowing to know one man for $62.2 million in eight months.
This season was historic for Scheffler, and that’s placing it evenly.
Scottie Scheffler in 2024.
• 20 begins
• 8 wins
• 17 prime 10s
• Second Masters
• Second Gamers
• Gold medal
• FedEx Cup
• Each week at world No. 1
• 3+ SG/spherical
• $62.2M in whole cash
• Jail throughout a serious
• Turned a dadActually a one in every of one season. Nothing prefer it…
— Kyle Porter (@KylePorterCBS) September 1, 2024
It was the yr of Scheffler. He turned the primary participant since Tiger Woods in 2007 to win a minimum of seven instances on the PGA Tour in a single season. He additionally set the single-season scoring common at 68.10, the bottom of all time.
Let’s study the cash listing and evaluate his $62.2 million to the remainder of the PGA Tour and even traditionally.
2024 PGA Tour Cash Listing (prime 10)
*as of Sept. 1, 2024, and contains bonuses from Comcast Prime 10 & FedEx Cup
1: Scottie Scheffler — $62,228,357
2: Xander Schauffele — $29,189,243
3: Collin Morikawa — $25,265,977
4: Sahith Theegala — $18,581,285
5: Rory McIlroy, $17,302,123
6: Wyndham Clark: $17,151,416
7: Hideki Matsuyama: $15,245,944
8: Ludvig Åberg: $13,923,857
9: Keegan Bradley: $7,539,455
10: Patrick Cantlay: $7,034,965
Combining Cantlay, Bradley, Åberg, Matsuyama, and Claark’searnings for the yr nonetheless wouldn’t attain the amount of cash Scheffler has received — they’re at $60,895,637, which is brief $1,332,720 of the No. 1 ranked participant.
PGA Tour Profession Earnings:
*doesn’t embrace bonuses
1: Tiger Woods: $120,999,166
2: Phil Mickelson: $96,644,310
3: Rory McIlroy: $90,130,223
4: Dustin Johnson: $75,466,806
5: Scottie Scheffler: $71,793,586
6: Jim Furyk: $71,507,269
7: Vijay Singh: $71,281,216
8: Adam Scott: $64,879,798
9: Justin Rose: $63,259,042
10: Jordan Spieth: $62,512,553
Scheffler turned professional in 2018. He at present sits No. 5 on the career-all-time listing with out together with any bonus cash he received in 2024.
If we included the $33 million in bonuses along with his profession earnings, Scheffler would have $104,793,586. He can be No. 2 behind Tiger Woods.
It’s laborious to grasp that, in his sixth season on the PGA Tour, he’s already inside the highest 5 in profession earnings. That feat ought to show what sort of heater Scheffler had in 2024 as a result of it was mind-numbing in all the correct methods.
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