Scottie Scheffler, the world's top golfer, pocketed $25M bonus after ruling the season and making $12,000 for each shot
- Golf's world number one, Scottie Scheffler, had one of the greatest seasons in the sport's history.
- He won the Masters, Olympic gold, the season-long FedEx Cup, and several other tournaments.
Scottie Scheffler, the world's top-ranked golfer, has enjoyed one of the greatest seasons in the sport's history — and picked up the financial rewards to match.
On Sunday, Scheffler completed a dominant victory in the PGA Tour season-ending Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, in turn securing the FedEx Cup, the season-long competition that determines the top player on tour each year.
Scheffler won seven tournaments on the PGA Tour in 2024, as well as winning Olympic gold in Paris. Not since Tiger Woods' dominant peak in 2007 has a player won so many events in one year.
He also dominated statistically, topping the charts for overall fewest strokes taken, fewest putts taken, and most birdies.
Perhaps most impressive, however, is just how much money he has made.
Alongside the victories, Scheffler has picked up more than $60 million in prize money, topping the PGA Tour money list for a third consecutive season.
Winnings on the PGA Tour fall into two categories: official money and unofficial money. This season Scheffler won $29,228,357 in official money, which includes prize cash for individual tournaments.
He added an additional $33 million with two huge unofficial bonuses: $25 million for winning the FedEx Cup overall title, and $8 million for topping the PGA Tour's regular season ranking.
Scheffler played 19 PGA Tour tournaments in 2024, for a total of 76 rounds of golf. Averaged out across the season, he won about $819,000 per round. That's equivalent to $12,041 per shot played, based on Scheffler's 68 stroke-per-round scoring average.
Scheffler's incredible season comes against a backdrop of golf's ongoing civil war, following the 2021 formation of LIV Golf, a breakaway tour backed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund.
LIV and the PGA Tour's beef looked to have been squashed in 2023 when a merger of the two tours was announced, but talks have been ongoing ever since, with no further details made public.
In the meantime, LIV has continued to attract many of the world's top golfers — including 2023 Masters winner Jon Rahm, and Bryson DeChambeau, a two-time major champion — by offering lavish financial rewards. Rahm, for instance, was given a multi-year deal worth a rumored $350 million.
Scheffler, however, has remained loyal to the PGA Tour, and is reaping the benefits.