A year ago, Scottie Scheffler’s PGA Championship was defined by his arrest ahead of his second round during a traffic diversion gone wrong. Scheffler’s 2025 PGA Championship finished like so many of his other golf events the past three years: victory.
Scheffler had a three-shot lead to start the fourth round at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, N.C. After a brief challenge from Jon Rahm, who got within one stroke, Scheffler closed out a five-shot victory at 11-under to lift the Wanamaker Trophy. A trio of golfers—Harris English, Bryson DeChambeau and Davis Riley—finished tied for second. Rahm shot 5-over on the last three holes to finish tied for eighth at 4-under.
The win was worth $3.42 million in prize money for Scheffler and pushed his career PGA Tour prize money to $81.9 million, fourth all-time behind Tiger Woods ($121 million), Rory McIlroy ($105 million) and Phil Mickelson ($96.7 million).
It marks Scheffler’s third major overall, including wins at the Masters in 2022 and 2024. Overall, it is his 15th career PGA Tour win, and he joins Woods, Sam Snead and Jack Nicklaus as the only golfers with that many Tour wins before the age of 29.
The 28-year-old Scheffler won his first PGA event in 2022 and has been absolutely dominant ever since. Last year, he won nine times in 21 events and tied Woods (2000) and Vijay Singh (2004) for the most wins in a season since 1950.
Scheffler earned $76.3 million in prize money and bonuses from the FedEx Cup, Player Impact Program (PIP), Comcast Business Tour Top 10 and the Olympics, plus an estimated $28 million from a half-dozen major sponsors, including Nike, TaylorMade, Rolex and Veritex Community Bank. His $104 million in total earnings ranked 11th in Sportico’s highest-paid athletes across all sports.
Scheffler has been atop the Official World Golf Ranking for 105 straight weeks and 140 overall. The only player with a longer streak at No. 1 was Woods.
“What we’ve seen Scottie do over the last three, four years is quite impressive,” Rahm said at the Masters. “His ball-striking level is outstanding. Anytime you have a year where you’re being compared to Tiger in his prime, I don’t think I need to add anything else to that.”
(In the second paragraph, Scheffler’s final score has been corrected.)
