{"id":431613,"date":"2026-01-25T04:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431613\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T04:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T04:31:12","slug":"scottie-scheffler-can-make-golf-history-only-done-by-tiger-woods-jack-nicklaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/431613\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler can make golf history only done by Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scottie Scheffler is putting his name among the all-time greats.<\/p>\n<p>The golf superstar can join Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus in an exclusive PGA Tour club on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>If Scheffler wins at The American Express, he makes history.<\/p>\n<p>Woods and Nicklaus are currently the only two players in PGA Tour history with 20 event wins and four majors before turning 30.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler&#8217;s win Sunday would be his 20th, and he&#8217;s got the majors.<\/p>\n<p>The stat comes via Justin Ray:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A win Sunday for Scottie Scheffler would be his 20th on the PGA Tour.<\/p>\n<p>Only 2 players in the modern era have won 20+ PGA Tour titles including 4+ majors before age 30: Jack Nicklaus &amp; Tiger Woods.<\/p>\n<p>Scheffler would become the 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Ray (@JustinRayGolf) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JustinRayGolf\/status\/2015218093673402851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scheffler will be a part of the final threesome on Sunday in California.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s at 21-under through three rounds, tied for second with 18-year old Blades Brown.<\/p>\n<p>First place is held solo right now by Si Woo Kim, who is 22-under.<\/p>\n<p>It should be a special final round no matter what, with Brown trying to set a record for youngest winner and Scheffler trying to join Jack and Tiger in the record books.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/golf\/news\/18-year-old-blades-brown-sets-course-record-golf-week-american-express-leaderboard-scottie-scheffler\/7f3a1557a8bdd5a7b33d7700\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blades Brown is having a whirlwind week<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottie Scheffler is putting his name among the all-time greats. The golf superstar can join Tiger Woods and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-431613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}