I’m not sure if you’ve heard, but there’s good money in professional golf these days – allow Scottie Scheffler‘s career to prove it.
He qualified for his first US Open in 2016 and teed it up a handful more times on the PGA Tour before eventually turning professional in 2018 and joining the Korn Ferry Tour via Q-School in 2019. Now he could start earning some money.
However, it wasn’t plain sailing for Scheffler right away. In his first year as a pro, he secured a modest $31,642.50 thanks to a T43rd at the FedEx St Jude Classic and a T34th result in Web.com Tour Q-School.
Scheffler’s fortunes quickly took a turn for the better, though, and he banked over $700,000 in 2019 via a couple of wins and two more runner-up finishes on the PGA Tour’s feeder circuit. That helped Scheffler end the term third in the points list and achieve promotion to the PGA Tour for 2020.
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The following season saw the man who would go on to become World No.1 surpass the seven-figure mark in terms of earnings for the first time. It would not be the last. Scheffler didn’t actually win in the 2019-20 season, but seven top-10s helped him collect over $5.3 million, all told.
It was a similar story in 2021 as well with no wins but a couple of strong results – namely the runner-up finish at the WGC Dell Technologies Match Play and a third-place at the Memorial Tournament. That led to earnings of just under $5 million.
Scheffler’s earning power reached stratospheric levels in 2022 and they’ve never really looked back since. A first Masters triumph was one of four wins that season with four more runner-up finishes and another 11 top-10s.
Now one of the best players in the world, Scheffler almost reached the $30 million mark via the help of $9.5 million in bonus money as well.
2023 featured a level of consistency that has come to define Scheffler. Three more wins and a trio of runner-up finishes highlighted 17 top-10 results from 25 events, with almost $33.4 million the financial reward for his…
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