DALLAS — Back in April, we wrote about the stunning pile of money Dallas golfer Scottie Scheffler had earned in just over a month on the PGA Tour. After four wins and a second-place finish, the world's No. 1 golfer had amassed around $16 million in just 43 days.
The winnings were a sign of Scheffler's dominance, as well as the lucrative purses for the Tour's top events, which Scheffler was winning with regularity.
Well, things haven't necessarily slowed down for the just-turned 28-year-old.
Scheffler celebrated his birthday week with a playoff victory Sunday at The Travelers Championship in Cromwell, Conn., winning his sixth tournament of the year.
Scheffler also won The Memorial Tournament earlier this month, before stumbling, by his standards, to a tie for 41st at the U.S. Open.
All told, Scheffler has played 15 events this year, won six times, finished runner-up twice and made the top 10 in 13 of those tournaments.
What does that equate to in earnings? $27,696,858.
So that's around $1.8 million for every tournament he's played this year, and around $460,000 for every round he's teed it up.
Scheffler's 2024 money easily surpasses his record-breaking earnings last year, when he took home $21 million.
To put his earnings into further context, the No. 2 money earner on the Tour this year is Xander Schauffele, at $12,636,360 (including a nice chunk of change from winning the PGA Championship).
Rory McIlroy is the only other Tour golfer to earn more than $10 million this season, at $10,034,665.
Scheffler's winnings have been just part of a whirlwind few months. In April, he won The Masters on standby in case his pregnant wife, Meredith, went into labor. The couple's baby boy, Bennett, ultimately arrived in May.
A week later, Scheffler was arrested outside of the PGA Championship in Kentucky, accused of hitting a police officer with his courtesy vehicle. Scheffler and his lawyer went through the court process and the charges were dropped.
Then on Sunday, in another odd moment, climate protesters crashed the 18th green as Scheffler was set to attempt a tournament-winning birdie putt. After a brief delay, Scheffler missed the putt but beat Tom Kim in the playoff.
And Scheffler is likely not done yet.
Scheffler will have up to nine more chances to add to his winnings this season, including The Open Championship in Scotland (the year's fourth and final major tournament) and the always-lucrative FedEx Cup Playoffs, which begin in August.
Winnings aside, Scheffler has been the clear No. 1. player in the world in 2024, though fellow North Texan Bryson DeChambeau has come on strong, and so has Schauffele. Data Golf, which ranks golfers across both the PGA Tour and the LIV Golf League, has had Scheffler comfortably at No. 1 in the world. Schauffele is No. 2, followed by McIlroy, Collin Morikawa, Ludvig Aberg and DeChambeau.
