{"id":5533,"date":"2024-04-27T14:03:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T18:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/?p=5533"},"modified":"2025-06-07T10:47:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T14:47:22","slug":"pga-tour-2024-scottie-schefflers-historic-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/pga-tour-2024-scottie-schefflers-historic-run\/","title":{"rendered":"PGA Tour 2024: Scheffler\u2019s Historic Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Scottie Scheffler: Masters Champion<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The buzz surrounding Scottie Scheffler\u2019s fantastic season keeps getting louder every time he tees it up\u2014but where does the ultra-hot start to his \u201924 season stack up against some of the greatest seasons of all-time? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through his first 10 starts, Scottie has recorded 4 wins, including The Players<\/mark><\/a> and The Masters, with 9 Top-10 finishes. After taking a look through the record books, Scheffler\u2019s opening run in the \u201924 season ranks at the very top since 1960\u2014with only Tiger (of course) putting up a comparable record through the first 10 starts of the year in his monumental 2000 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tiger: The Greatest Year<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Tiger 2000<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

With 9 victories including 3 Major championship wins and a T5 at The Masters<\/mark><\/a>, the 2000 season was undoubtedly the greatest of Tiger\u2019s amazing career. His first 10 starts that year couldn\u2019t match what he did in the second half of the season (winning all three majors), but it was fantastic just the same with 9 Top-10\u2019s including 4 wins and 4 runner-up finishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Tiger recorded the same number of wins with 3 more runner-up finishes and a slightly better average finish, he was 2nd<\/sup> in The Players and 5th<\/sup> at The Masters (Scheffler won both), so you have to give Scottie the nod by an eyelash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jack 1963<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Although Nicklaus never had a \u201cmonster\u201d year like Tiger in 2000, he had a ton of great ones to choose from\u2014so we picked 1963 out of the hat. Jack finished the year with 5 wins, including The Masters and The PGA Championship<\/mark><\/a> along with 17 Top-10\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jack Nicklaus<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In his first 10 starts of \u201963, Jack recorded 9 Top-10\u2019s with 3 wins including The Masters, but Scheffler also won at Augusta and notched one more win\u2014and it happened to be The Players, so once again it\u2019s Scottie by a whisker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arnie 1961<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Arnie had a tremendous year in \u201961, making the cut in 25 of his 26 starts with 21 Top-10\u2019s and 7 wins, including the Open Championship<\/mark><\/a>. He also recorded a runner-up at The Masters and a T5 at the PGA\u2014while constantly having to look over his shoulder at Jack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arnie<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It\u2019s tough to have a great year without getting off to fast start, and Arnie did just that in \u201961 with 9 Top-10 finishes in his first 10 starts including 3 wins. Unfortunately, Palmer missed the cut in the first tournament of the year at the LA Open, and then came heartbreak at the Masters when he made double on 18 to lose by a shot to Gary Player\u2014so Arnie comes up just shy of Scottie\u2019s run as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johnny Miller<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Johnny Miller<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps the greatest iron player of all-time, Miller had his best year in 1972. Johnny made the cut in 20 of 22 starts with 13 Top-10\u2019s and recorded 8 wins that year, and started the season sizzling hot with 3 consecutive wins (Crosby Pro-Am\/Pebble Beach, The Phoenix Open<\/mark><\/a> and The Tucson Open). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through his first 10 events, Johnny recorded 6 Top-10\u2019s with 4 wins\u2014a fantastic start to the season. As great as Johnny was at the start of \u201972, it pales in comparison to what Scottie has done in 2024\u2014and provides some perspective on just how good Scheffler has been this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Vijay Singh: 9 wins at 41<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Singh<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Vijay Singh played his first year on the PGA Tour at 30 years old, and had his greatest season in 2004 at the age of 41. In 29 starts, Vijay recorded 18 Top-10\u2019s with 9 wins including The PGA Championship at Sahalee<\/mark><\/a>, while missing the cut just once. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first 10 starts of \u201904 Vijay was terrific, making the cut in 9 of 10 events with 5 Top-10\u2019s including a win, a runner-up and a T6 at The Masters\u2014but still not close to the numbers Scheffler has put up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Road Ahead<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

No doubt Scottie takes it one round at a time, one tournament at a time, and that\u2019s good–because if he looks hard at what it will take to match Tiger for the rest of the year, it may bring on a panic attack.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scheffler will need to win 4 more times, including 2 additional majors, without missing a cut \u2014while recording 8 more Top-10\u2019s and throw in a T5 at the fourth major to boot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the way Scheffler is hitting the ball right now, and the confidence he exudes with every shot, it certainly brings back images of Tiger at the height of his powers\u2014but can Scottie keep it up? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll have to watch and see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Valhalla Golf Club, Louisville KY<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Upcoming Events<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This week the Tour is in New Orleans for the Zurich Classic<\/mark><\/a> (April 25-28), and then heads to  Dallas for the CJ CUP Byron Nelson<\/mark><\/a> (May 2-5) at TPC Craig Ranch<\/mark><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next up is the Wells Fargo Championship<\/mark><\/a> at Quail Hollow<\/mark><\/a> in Charlotte, NC (May 9-12) along with the inaugural playing of the Myrtle Beach Classic<\/mark><\/a> at The Dunes Golf and Beach Club<\/mark><\/a> (May 9-12) , followed by the second major of the year\u2014The PGA Championship<\/mark><\/a> (May 16-19) at Valhalla Golf Club<\/mark><\/a> in Louisville, KY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The buzz surrounding Scottie Scheffler\u2019s fantastic season keeps getting louder every time he tees it up\u2014but where does the ultra-hot start to his \u201924 season stack up against some of the greatest seasons of all-time? Through his first 10 starts, Scottie has recorded 4 wins, including The Players and The Masters, with 9 Top-10 finishes. … Continue reading PGA Tour 2024: Scheffler\u2019s Historic Run<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[392,1198,1197,299,623],"tags":[207,115,173,80,462,57,979,570],"class_list":["post-5533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pga-tour","category-pga-tour-2024-schefflers-historic-run-scottie-scheffler","category-pga-tour-2024-schefflers-historic-run","category-players","category-scottie-scheffler","tag-arnold-palmer","tag-jack-nicklaus","tag-johnny-miller","tag-pga-tour","tag-scottie-scheffler","tag-tiger-woods","tag-valhalla-golf-club","tag-vijay-singh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5533"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9071,"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5533\/revisions\/9071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/golfday.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}