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Scottie Scheffler named PGA TOUR Player of the Year for 2022-23 season
01.03.2024 | Men's Golf
Former Longhorn is the first player to win Player of the Year honors in back-to-back seasons since Tiger Woods won the award three straight years from 2005-07.
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Former University of Texas star Scottie Scheffler won the Jack Nicklaus Award as the PGA TOUR Player of the Year for the 2022-23 season, the PGA TOUR announced Wednesday. Scheffler, the current No. 1 player in the world, is the first player to win Player of the Year honors in back-to-back seasons since Tiger Woods won the award three straight years from 2005-07.
The Player of the Year awards are determined by a member vote, with PGA TOUR members who played in at least 15 official FedExCup events during the 2022-23 season eligible to vote. The voting period ran from Dec. 1-15. Scheffler received 38-percent of the vote for the Jack Nicklaus Award and was selected over four other nominees: Wyndham Clark, Viktor Hovland, Rory McIlroy and Jon Rahm.
Scheffler posted two victories during the 2022-23 season. He successfully defended his title at the WM Phoenix Open and captured the crown at THE PLAYERS Championship by five strokes. In his 23 starts during this past season, Scheffler recorded 13 top-five finishes and 17 top-10 showings. Those were the most by any player in a single season on the PGA TOUR since 2005, when Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods each posted 13 top-five finishes and Singh registered 18 top-10 efforts. Scheffler set the PGA TOUR record for most official money earned in a single season at $21,014,342, breaking his own record set during the 2021-22 season ($14,046,910).
Scheffler is the fourth player to win the Jack Nicklaus Award in back-to-back seasons since the honor began in 1990, joining Fred Couples (1991-92), Nick Price (1993-94) and Tiger Woods (1999-2003 and 2005-07). Scheffler also received the Byron Nelson Award for recording the lowest scoring average (68.63) on the PGA TOUR in 2022-23. That marked the lowest scoring average on the PGA TOUR since Tiger Woods tallied a 68.05 in 2008-09.
Scheffler was presented the award on Wednesday at The Sentry, which is serving as the PGA TOUR's season-opening event for the first time since 2013.