World number one Scottie Scheffler has been named the PGA Tour player of the year for a fourth successive time.
Scheffler won The Open and USPGA Championship among six victories during the year, beating nominees Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Ben Griffin to retain the Jack Nicklaus Award.
“I think overall the thing that I’m most proud of when I look at the last couple years is just consistency,” Scheffler said Monday in a teleconference with reporters.
“It’s not very easy to just show up and finish in the top 10 each week. I think that’s something that’s very difficult to do, and something I’m very proud of, bringing the intensity that I need to in these tournaments and being prepared as I need to in order to perform well week in and week out.”
Tiger Woods is the only other player to win at least four consecutive awards, winning five on the trot between 1999 and 2003.
McIlroy, who won the Masters in his crowning achievement of 2025, is a three-time winner, having won the award in 2012, 2014 and 2019. He was the second Irishman to win the award after Padraig Harrington, who claimed the prize in 2008.
South Africa’s Aldrich Potgieter, 21, won the Arnold Palmer Award as the tour’s rookie of the year after claiming his maiden victory and becoming the only rookie to reach the FedEx Cup play-offs.