He is the 15th golfer to break the $50 million mark on the PGA Tour.
Scheffler officially has earned $53.5 million on tour, which jumps him past Jon Rahm into 14th place on the all-time money list. He’s also the fastest to break the $50 million barrier, doing it in 113 starts. By comparison, it took Tiger Woods 177 starts to eclipse the mark (he did it in 2005), Rory McIlroy 169 starts when he broke through in 2019 and Rahm 141 starts (the Spaniard accomplishing the feat at last year’s U.S. Open).
Mind you, the fact that Scheffler can boast of being the fastest to $50 million comes with a huge asterisk. As has been well-documented, purses in PGA Tour events have skyrocketed in the last few years as the tour upped the ante in the face of the threat from LIV Golf and its big-ticket tournaments. Consider then that Scheffler has eight tour wins at this point. When McIlroy hit $50 million, he had won 18 times. And when Tiger hit the big 5-0, he had won 48 times. Big difference.
Given the bump in prize money, the $50 million club is poised to admit a few more members in the very near future. After his T-6 finish at Sawgrass, Hideki Matsuyama now has $49.796 million in career earnings. And Rickie Fowler is at $49.307 million. It would seem inevitable that this duo will be joining Scottie sooner than later.
SOURCE: golfdigest.com
