{"id":58698,"date":"2026-08-31T04:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/58698\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T04:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:08:16","slug":"scottie-scheffler-makes-pga-tour-history-by-surpassing-tiger-woods-in-stunning-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/58698\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler makes PGA Tour history by surpassing Tiger Woods in stunning category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph ue-c-article--first-letter-highlighted\">Heading into the final round of the Tour Championship, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/golf\/pga-tour\/2025\/12\/16\/6940a2b422601d715a8b459f.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scottie Scheffler<\/a> was certainly withing striking distance. Ahead of him were Viktor Hovland and Ryan Gerard, and tied with him were Ludvig Aberg, Chris Gotterup, and Adam Scott.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">But like he usually does, Scheffler turned it on at the perfect moment. A -4 final round coincided with his rivals struggling to stick with him. Ultimately, Scheffler won yet another tournament. And with it, he made PGA Tour history.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James watches Kevin Love lose his cool after brutal golf shot at Cavaliers reunion<\/p>\n<p>Scottie Scheffler is now the top-earning PGA Tour player of all-time<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Scheffler&#8217;s victory earned him $10 million, which put his career winnings to this point at $130,390,661. According to the PGA Tour&#8217;s official website, that vaulted him ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marca.com\/en\/golf\/2026\/08\/26\/unrecognizable-tiger-woods-sparks-concern-among-fans-in-rare-video-appearance-since-his-dui-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tiger Woods<\/a> &#8211; who was at $120,999,166 million &#8211; for No. 1 all-time in career earnings.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">Of course, that number isn&#8217;t adjusted for inflation, so technically Woods would still be ahead of Scheffler if it was on equal terms. But Scheffler still has a long way to go in terms of earning potential. Currently ranked as the No. 1 golfer in the world, Scheffler is only 30 years old.<\/p>\n<p data-mrf-recirculation=\"Links P\u00e1rrafos\" class=\"ue-c-article__paragraph paragraph\">One can only imagine how much more money he can make for himself if he stays healthy and his game doesn&#8217;t, magically, fall off a cliff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heading into the final round of the Tour Championship, Scottie Scheffler was certainly withing striking distance. Ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-58698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-scottie-scheffler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}