From the inexperienced jacket to the tartan jacket – not even the weather might cease Scottie Scheffler persevering with his astonishing begin to the 2024 season.
The world No 1 gained the rain-delayed RBC Heritage on Monday to earn a fourth victory in simply 5 tournaments.
That run, which incorporates The Masters at Augusta, has seen him cement a degree of dominance not seen since Tiger Woods was in his prime.
Scheffler, nonetheless simply 27, has now pocketed $18.69million this season – greater than double the subsequent highest earner, Wyndham Clark ($9.3m).
He has made greater than $16million within the final 43 days alone, with practically half of that approaching consecutive weekends due to victory at The Masters ($3.6m) and RBC Heritage ($3.6m). His caddie Ted Scott, in the meantime, is believed to have earned $1.8m this season – greater than Rory McIlroy ($1.7m).
World No 1 Scottie Scheffler secured victory on the rain-delayed RBC Heritage on Monday
Scheffler, nonetheless simply 27, has now pocketed $18.69million because the begin of the 2024 season
He has cemented a degree of dominance not seen since Tiger Woods was in his prime
In actual fact, since victory on the Arnold Palmer Invitational final month, Scheffler’s paychecks learn $4m, $4.5m (Gamers Championship), $550,000 (T2 at Houston Open), $3.6m (Masters) and $3.6m (RBC Heritage). That’s a median of round $375,000 per day.
In accordance with analysis by CBS, if a PGA Tour participant made the lower in Scheffler’s previous 5 occasions and shot a median rating for the sphere, their cumulative rating could be round one-under-par. Over these 20 rounds, Scheffler is 76-under-par.
In 10 occasions this season, the world No 1 has secured 9 top-10 finishes and 4 wins. No different participant has triumphed greater than as soon as.
Just one particular person in historical past – Bobby Jones – has gained all 4 majors in a single yr however Scheffler is simply 50/1 (+5000) with some bookmakers to comply with up his victory at Augusta – beginning with the PGA Championship subsequent month.
Scheffler presently sits head and shoulders above another participant on this planet – his tally of 629 rating factors is sort of double that of McIlroy in second (344).
This newest victory made Scheffler the simply second participant – and the primary since Bernhard Langer in 1985 – to win the RBC Heritage and The in consecutive weeks.
In 10 occasions this season, the world No 1 has secured 9 top-10 finishes and 4 wins
The 27-year-old completed on 19-under-par – three photographs away from Sahith Theegala in second
Scheffler completed three photographs away from Sahith Theegala in South Carolina, closing on 19-under-par regardless of a bogey 5 on the ultimate gap.
Earlier than then, the world No 1 had gone 68 consecutive holes with out dropping a shot – a streak stretching again to the third gap of Thursday’s opening spherical.
Throughout the 2024 season, in the meantime, Scheffler has now recorded 39 consecutive rounds at par or higher.
After closing out victory on Monday, Scheffler had gained greater than 5 photographs off the tee, practically seven photographs along with his approaches to the inexperienced, and greater than 12 photographs in whole. He led the sphere on all three counts.
Nobody made as few bogeys (one) over the week and nobody was higher at saving par after lacking the inexperienced in regulation (15/17).
