– Scottie Scheffler has already won in prizes in the 2024 season almost the same amount as in the entire last season, 2022-23. In the current year, he accumulates 20,024,553 dollars, compared to 21,014,342 from the previous year.
– But of course, in his last seven appearances he has accumulated four victories, two second places and an eighth.
– Just in the last two and a half months, right from when he won the Arnold Palmer until he sealed his second place last Sunday at the Charles Schwab Challenge, Scheffler has won more than 17 and a half million dollars (17,583,900).
– To put it in perspective: Nick Taylor, who will defend his title this week at the Canadian Open, has won in his entire career on the PGA Tour just under 17 and a half million dollars (17,432,643). That is, Scheffler has won more than him just in the last two and a half months…
The Canadian player is not a nobody: he is completing his tenth consecutive season as a full member of the PGA Tour, has four victories on this circuit and on six occasions at least played a tournament of the final play offs of the Fedex Cup.
– To continue putting it in perspective: just in these two and a half months Scheffler has won more than a third of the amount that Jon Rahm accumulated in his journey on the PGA Tour (51,603,851 dollars).
– Sepp Straka is also not a nobody and accumulates in his entire career on the PGA Tour earnings of 16,272,000 dollars, just under a million of what Scheffler has won in the last two and a half months…
– If we go back to past and even remote times, the perspectives are crazy, of course. In these two and a half months Scheffler has won more or less the same amount as Jack Nicklaus and José María Olazábal together in the course of their respective careers on the PGA Tour… (Nicklaus added just over five million and Chema just over twelve).
– Let’s go even further: just in these two and a half months Scheffler has won close to fifteen percent of Tiger Woods’ total earnings in his career on the PGA Tour (we are always talking about prize money, let’s be clear), which are close to 121 million dollars.
– Scheffler has won just over 41 million dollars in prizes in the total of last season and what we have of the current one. Well, Brooks Koepka accumulated just over 43 million in his entire career on the PGA Tour, a guy who has won five Majors…
But the total earnings of a certain Ernie Els on the PGA Tour were just over 49 million. And those of a certain Henrik Stenson barely passed 32 million, far from the amount that Scottie has in less than two years…
– In conclusion: After his second place at the Charles Schwab Challenge last Sunday, Scheffler surpassed Jordan Spieth by a handful of dollars in the Career Earnings, of the PGA Tour (total earnings), where he is already ninth with just over 62 and a half million, that is, an amount significantly higher than half of what Tiger has won in his entire career…
If he manages to maintain this same pace of results and earnings this year, which is undoubtedly yet to be seen, because it is crazy, he could well approach in that same historical earnings list the very Dustin Johnson, who is fourth, and stay only behind Tiger, Mickelson and McIlroy.
Right now, as of May 28, 2024, the top 50 in historical earnings on the PGA Tour is closed by Retief Goosen with an amount that slightly exceeds 31 million dollars, an amount that Scottie Scheffler can by no means be ruled out to add just in this year 2024.
– There is no need to say it, but just in case. All this dizzying dance of figures has to do with the conjunction of the two real ‘disparities’ that are occurring in world golf. On the one hand, the beastly records of Scottie Scheffler, as is evident, undoubtedly the most dominant World Number One since Tiger Woods. And on the other, the dizzying race in the prize bags, which had never stopped increasing gradually and whose growth skyrocketed with the emergence of LIV Golf, almost two years ago now. Just a decade ago, Martin Kaymer received a check for 1,620,000 dollars for winning the US Open, an amount less than what Davis Riley received last Sunday for winning the Charles Schwab Challenge (1,638,000 dollars).
