The prize money Scottie Scheffler earned during his record-breaking top-10 run is staggering
Jed Jacobsohn
If you’re a Scottie Scheffler fan, we have some good news and some bad news. The bad news? On Sunday, the World No. 1’s record-breaking run of 18 consecutive top-10 finishes on the PGA Tour came to an end with a T-12 at the Genesis Invitational.
The good news? Well, there’s plenty of it. Scheffler’s mark of 18 straight top-10s is six clear of the next closest player (Vijay Singh with 12) and unlikely to be eclipsed anytime soon. Even better, though, is that amount of prize money Scheffler raked in over the course of his remarkable run. Read it and weep, folks.
More than $28 million dollars at an average clip of more than $1.5 million per tournament. That’s not bad work if you can get it. Only 65 golfers have made more money than Scheffler in his record stretch … for their entire careers.
Scheffler may not have marketing upside of someone like Tiger Woods or even Rory McIlroy, but on the modern PGA Tour, with purses growing exponentially in response to LIV-flation, this remarkable stat shows consistency can be just as lucrative.