Scottie Scheffler

Scheffler's journey began in Ridgewood, N.J., where he was born. His parents, Scott and Diane, moved the family to Dallas when he was 8 years old. Along with his three brothers and sisters, they played golf at Highland Park. Through the years, family vacations were forsaken to trek by station wagon to junior tournaments around the country. Most of them were Scottie's events, but all four kids once played in a tournament in Greenville, Miss., where then-6-year-old Sara recorded the family's first (and still its only) double eagle. The Schefflers joined Royal Oaks Country Club, where Scottie spent a lot of time and learned from instructor Randy Smith, who was teaching Justin Leonard, Colt Knost, and other pros. In a pretty amazing coincidence, Scheffler attended the same high school as Super Bowl champ Matthew Stafford. That begs the question, When is the last time guys from the same high school won a Super Bowl and a PGA Tour event on the same day?
Scheffler's decorated junior career included a victory at the 2013 U.S. Junior Amateur at Martis Camp Club in Truckee, California, defeating Davis Riley 3 & 2 in the final. A month later, he became only the second reigning U.S. Junior winner since 1986 to reach the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass. He was defeated by Brady Watt, 1-up.
After signing his National Letter of Intent to play at Texas, Golfweek ranked him as the No. 1 junior player in its Class of 2014, the same spot he would earn in the AJGA Polo Golf Rankings at the end of his junior career. Scheffler was a member of the 2016 U.S. World Amateur Team. Recipient of the 2015 Phil Mickelson Award for being the nation's best freshman golfer. Also named 2015 Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Scottie was also part of the U.S. team that won the 2017 Walker Cup.
At 17 years old, he played in his first PGA Tour event and finished T-22nd at the HP Byron Nelson.
After graduating from Texas in 2018, he received two PGA Tour exemptions after turning professional but earned his way onto the 2019 Korn Ferry Tour via Q-School in December of 2018, finishing T-34th.
2019 Korn Ferry Tour Summary: Tournaments Entered - 20; In Money - 16; Top-10 Finishes - 10; Scoring Average - 69.28 (rank 1st); Regular Season Money - $565,338 (rank 1st); Winner, Evans Scholars Invitational, Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship. Also finished 2nd at the Savannah Golf Championship and Nashville Golf Open, where he lost in a playoff. On the Korn Ferry Tour, his playoff record was 1-1.
2020 Notes: Played in 23 PGA Tour events in his rookie season, making 18 cuts with seven top-10 finishes. Was 5th in the FedExCup standings. His first start of the season finished T-7th at The Greenbrier. Was T-3rd at Bermuda Championship, T-5th at The RSM Classic, and 3rd at The American Express, three strokes behind winner Andrew Landry. After the break for COVID-19, got his game rolling with four rounds in the 60s to finish T-15th at the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational. Next week, he shot 65-68 over the weekend to finish T-4th and three strokes behind winner Collin Morikawa at the PGA Championship. The roll continued through the FedExCup Playoffs, as he was T-4th at the Northern Trust. Was T-20th at the BMW Championship and 5th at the Tour Championship, where he shot 66-65 over the weekend. He was named PGA Tour Rookie of the Year and, after winning Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year in 2019, became the third player to be named Korn Ferry Tour Player of the Year and PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in successive seasons, joining Stewart Cink (1996-'97) and Sungjae Im (2018-'19).
2021 Notes: Played in 29 PGA Tour events making 24 cuts with eight top-ten finishes. Was T-22nd in the FedExCup standings. Even though he had yet to win on the PGA Tour since he was in the top-30 of the 2020 season got into the Sentry Tournament of Champions and finished T-13th. Was T-7th at the Waste Management Phoneix Open. Finished 5th at the WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession, earning his first top-five in a WGC event. Things got better in his next WGC start at the Dell Technologies Match Play as Scheffler made it out of group play by making a birdie on the 2nd playoff hole to beat Xander Schauffele, then beat Ian Poulter, Jon Rahm, and Matt Kuchar to make the finals. But he lost to Billy Horschel 2 & 1 to finish 2nd. Was T-8th at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans with partner Bubba Watson. Was T-3rd at the Memorial, two shots back of the Cantlay/Morikawa playoff. He finished T-7th at the U.S. Open, he was five back of winner Jon Rahm. At the British Open was four shots back going into the final round but shot 71 to finish T-8th. In the FedExCup Playoffs was T-43rd at the Northern Trust, and T-22nd at both the BMW Championship and the Tour Championship. Played in his first Ryder Cup and finished with a 2-0-1 record, to help team USA win at Whistling Straits. In the singles, Scheffler won his match with Jon Rahm 4 & 3. At the Hero World Challenge was 2nd one shot back of winner Viktor Hovland.
2022 Notes: Shot a final-round 66 at the World Wide Technology Championship at Mayakoba to finish 4th, six shots back of winner Viktor Hovland. Next week was T-2nd at the Houston Open, held the outright 54-hole lead, shot 69 in the final round was beaten by Jason Kokrak who shot 65 to win by two. Got his first PGA Tour victory at the Phoenix Open, defeating Patrick Cantlay in a playoff with a birdie on the third extra hole. Won in his first playoff on Tour in his 71st start at the age of 25 years, 7 months, 23 days. The next week was T-7th at the Genesis Invitational, seven shots back of winner Joaquin Niemann. Won the Arnold Palmer Invitational by one shot, earning his second PGA Tour title 21 days after his first. Recorded a 72-hole total of 5-under (283), the highest relative to par by a Tour winner since the 2020 BMW Championship. Defeated Kevin Kisner, 4 and 3, in the championship match to win the WGC-Dell Match Play, earning his third career PGA Tour victory and third in a five-start stretch. Became the first player to win three times during the season. The victory came 42 days after his first (Phoenix Open) win; became the first player to go 42 days or fewer between his first and third career victories since David Duval in 1997. Became the first player to win the event after losing in the championship match the year prior since Kevin Kisner in 2019 and the first to win a Tour event a year after finishing runner-up since Dustin Johnson at the 2020 Masters. Moved to No. 1 in the Official World Golf Ranking for the first time in his career. Earned his first major championship title and fourth PGA Tour win in a six-start stretch, winning the Masters Tournament by three shots over Rory McIlroy. Entered the week No. 1 in the FedExCup standings and Official World Golf Ranking. Became the sixth World No. 1 to win the Masters and the sixth player to win in his first PGA Tour start as World No. 1. Became the first player to win on the PGA Tour and win a major in his next start since Jordan Spieth in 2017. Became the first player to win in consecutive starts during the FedExCup Regular Season since Brendon Todd in 2019. Missed the cut at the PGA Championship but the next week was 2nd at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Was in a playoff with Sam Burns. Held at least a share of the lead after each of the first three rounds but didn't make a birdie in the final round. Burns won the playoff on the first hole by making a 38-foot birdie. Finished T-2nd at the U.S. Open, his third runner-up of the season. Holed out for eagle twice and was the only player in the field to record multiple eagles.