Scottie Scheffler capped off another dominant PGA Tour season by taking the top spot on the all-time career money list, and Tiger Woods was quick to tip his cap.<\/p>\n
Scheffler closed out the Tour Championship with a 4-under 66 at East Lake, winning by three shots to lock up his second FedEx Cup title in three years. That $10 million payday pushed his career PGA Tour earnings past Woods, who had held the top spot on the money list for 26 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree wins, five runner-ups and finishing the season No. 1. Those are some numbers to be proud of. Incredible consistency all season long. Congrats on a historic season, Scottie,\u201d Woods wrote on X on August 31.<\/p>\n
Woods congratulated Scheffler on X<\/a>, as he wrapped up a season that saw him win three times and finish runner-up on five other occasions, all while holding down the world No. 1 ranking from start to finish.<\/p>\n According to the PGA Tour, Scheffler\u2019s career PGA Tour earnings now sit at $130.3 million, compared to Woods\u2019 $120.9 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n The win also puts Scheffler unofficially on track for a fifth straight PGA Tour Player of the Year award, an honor no one else has come close to matching in recent seasons, as reported by Andy Roberts of Golf Magic.\u00a0<\/p>\n Roberts noted an obvious caveat with the comparison. Scheffler is playing in an era of far bigger purses than Woods ever competed for, so the raw earnings gap doesn\u2019t tell the full story of who had the better career.\u00a0<\/p>\n Still, climbing past a player who sat at the top for over two and a half decades says plenty about where Scheffler stands right now.<\/p>\n Rory McIlroy is also creeping up the list. His tie for fourth at the Tour Championship earned him close to $1.7 million and pushed his career total to $119.5 million, putting him within striking distance of Woods for second place.<\/p>\n The numbers behind Scottie Scheffler\u2019s rise to the top<\/p>\n Scheffler didn\u2019t just win his way to the top of the money list; he led the Tour in nearly every category that mattered.\u00a0<\/p>\n World No. 1 finished first in official money at $30.9 million, posted a record scoring average of 67.86, and topped the field in both strokes gained total and strokes gained tee-to-green, as per Andy Roberts of Golf Magic<\/a>.<\/p>\n He also led the Tour in ball striking, final-round scoring average, greens in regulation, scrambling, birdie average, and par-4 scoring average.\u00a0<\/p>\n Scheffler\u2019s 72.86% greens-in-regulation rate showed just how consistent his long game was all year, while a 66.4% scrambling rate meant he rarely let a missed green turn into a bogey.<\/p>\n Surpassing Woods on the money list is just one more marker in a season that already had plenty of them, and it\u2019s clear even Woods himself sees it.<\/p>\n \t