Scottie Scheffler was named last year’s PGA Tour Player of the Year in September of 2022. This time around, the award is being doled out in January because of the FedEx Cup Fall Series, which extended eligibility for that award as well as PGA Tour Rookie of the Year.
Scheffler is among the five finalists for the Jack Nicklaus Award, going to the top player on the circuit.
He’s looking to become the first back-to-back winner of the award since Tiger Woods won it three times in a row from 2005 to 2007. Fred Couples and Nick Price are the only others to win it two times in a row since the award was first given out in 1990.
The Player of the Year for the 2022-23 season was finalized by the PGA Tour Player directors and members of the Player Advisory Council (PAC).
Voting for the Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards will take place among PGA Tour members who played in at least 15 official FedExCup events during the season. The voting will close on Friday, Dec. 15, at 5 p.m. ET.
The winners will be announced in January at The Sentry, the first event of the 2024 season, which marks the return of the calendar-based schedule.
Here are the five nominees, listed in alphabetical order below, for the PGA Tour Player of the Year.
Wyndham Clark celebrates with the championship trophy at the 2023 U.S. Open at Los Angeles Country Club. (Photo: Michael Madrid/USA TODAY Sports)
Among Wyndham Clark’s 28 starts this season was his first PGA Tour win at the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in May.
The next month at Los Angeles Country Club, Clark validated his rise with his win in the U.S. Open.
He had eight top-10 finishes and missed only three cuts.
He finished third in the FedExCup standings, he was 13th in scoring average at 69.642.
Viktor Hovland celebrates with the FedEx Cup trophy after winning the 2023 Tour Championship at East Lake Golf Club. (Photo: John David Mercer-USA TODAY Sports)
Viktor Hovland won three times in his breakout season, and while he didn’t claim a major, he won some heavyweight events: the Memorial, the BMW Championship and the Tour Championship.
He played 23 events and made the cut in all of them. In nine of those, Hovland finished in the top 10.
He was fourth in scoring average at 69.123.
Rory McIlroy admires the trophy after winning the 2023 Genesis Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club in United Kingdom. (Photo: Octavio Passos/Getty…
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