Scottie Scheffler can join an exclusive club this week as a third consecutive victory at The Memorial Tournament would make him just the seventh man to achieve a modern-day PGA Tour three-peat.
Even taking into account the entire history of a sport as old as golf, only 19 men have won the same tournament three times in a row – with 27 instances of a three-peat.
The likes of Walter Hagen, Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen and Arnold Palmer achieved three-peats before the official formation of the PGA Tour in 1968.
Since then it’s been achieved just 11 times by six different golfers – with Jack Nicklaus the first to do it and Tiger Woods accounting for six of those, including two tournaments he won four times in a row.
The last time we had a three-peat on the PGA Tour was Steve Stricker’s three wins at the John Deere Classic between 2009-11.
Who has won same PGA Tour event three times running?
Going back through history, Young Tom Morris won four Open Championships on the spin, while Peter Thomson later won three in a row in the 1950s.
Walter Hagen won four straight PGA Championships after claiming three straight Matropolitan Opens, while Gene Sarazen won four Miami Open titles and three Miami Beach Opens in the same four-year span.
Arnold Palmer went back-to-back-to-back at both the Texas Open and Phoenix Open as did Billy Casper at the Portland Open in the early 1960s.
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Name |
Event |
Consecutive Wins |
|---|---|---|
|
Jack Nicklaus |
Disney World Golf Classic |
3 – 1971-73 |
|
Johnny Miller |
Tuscon Open |
3 – 1974-76 |
|
Tom Watson |
AT&T Byron Nelson |
3 – 1978-80 |
|
Tiger Woods |
The Memorial |
3 – 1999-01 |
|
Tiger Woods |
WGC – Bridgestone Invitational |
3 – 1999-01 |
|
Tiger Woods |
Arnold Palmer Invitational |
4 – 2000-03 |
|
Stuart Appleby |
The Sentry |
3 – 2004-06 |
|
Tiger Woods |
Farmers Insurance Open |
4 – 2005-08 |
|
Tiger Woods |
WGC-Bridgestone Invitational |
3 – 2005-07 |
|
Tiger Woods |
WGC-Cadillac Championship |
3 – 2005-07 |
|
Steve Stricker |
John Deere Classic |
3 – 2009-11 |
Jack Nicklaus claimed the first three-peat of the modern PGA Tour era at the Disney World Golf Classic – which given his dominance was surprisingly his only three-peat, showing how tough it has been.
Tough for anyone not named Tiger Woods though, as he won four times in a row at both the Arnold Palmer Invitational and…
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