Scottie Scheffler Wins Second FedEx Cup, Passes Tiger Woods in PGA Tour Earnings/ TezzBuzz/ WASHINGTON/ J. Mansour/ Scottie Scheffler captured his second FedEx Cup title Sunday with a three-shot victory at the Tour Championship, closing with a 4-under 66 at East Lake. The victory was Scheffler’s 22nd PGA Tour win in five years and earned him $10 million, pushing his career earnings to $130,390,661 and past Tiger Woods. Scheffler rallied from three shots behind, overtook Viktor Hovland and finished a dominant postseason by winning two of the three playoff events.
Quick Look
- Scottie Scheffler won the Tour Championship and his second FedEx Cup title.
- He closed with a 4-under 66 for a three-shot victory at East Lake.
- Scheffler overcame a three-shot deficit in just four holes during the final round.
- The victory was his 22nd PGA Tour title during an extraordinary five-year stretch.
- Scheffler earned $10 million from the $40 million Tour Championship purse.
- His career PGA Tour earnings reached $130,390,661, moving him past Tiger Woods.
- Woods had held the top spot on the PGA Tour career money list for nearly 26 years.
- Scheffler won three tournaments in 2026, including two of the three FedEx Cup playoff events.
- Another PGA Tour Player of the Year award would be Scheffler’s fifth consecutive, tying Woods’ record.
- Viktor Hovland finished three shots behind Scheffler and earned $5 million for second place.
- Ryan Gerard finished alone in third after a final-round 72.
- Scheffler celebrated the end of his season with a rare beer after securing the victory.
Scheffler Captures Second FedEx Cup at East Lake
ATLANTA — Scottie Scheffler capped another remarkable PGA Tour season by winning his second FedEx Cup title Sunday, capturing the Tour Championship at East Lake and moving past Tiger Woods as the leading career money winner in PGA Tour history.
Scheffler entered the decisive stretch three shots behind but erased the deficit in four holes before pulling away from the field.
He closed with a 4-under 66 on a difficult final day when none of the other top six players broke par.
Scheffler ultimately finished three shots clear of Viktor Hovland to secure his 22nd PGA Tour victory during an extraordinary five-year run.
Scheffler Celebrates With a Rare Beer
With his round completed before the final two groups finished, Scheffler had to wait before his victory became official.
He decided to celebrate early with a beer.
“There was an open bar inside and I’m like, ‘All right, I’m grabbing a beer.’ It tasted great,” Scheffler said. “I don’t really drink often. My wife and manager were like, ‘Wow, I haven’t seen you have a beer in a long time.’ Well, season’s over now. I’m going to have a beer. Well-earned beer.”
The victory provided a fitting conclusion to a season that strengthened Scheffler’s position at the top of professional golf.
Scheffler Erases Three-Shot Deficit
Scheffler signaled his final-round charge almost immediately.
He hit a 5-iron to within 2 inches of the cup on the 211-yard second hole.
A 25-foot birdie putt on the fourth allowed him to catch Hovland, and Scheffler moved into the outright lead for the first time on the 13th.
He never relinquished it.
Despite difficult wind and firm conditions at East Lake, Scheffler limited himself to two bogeys and steadily separated himself from his closest challengers.
Tour Championship Win Feels Different From 2024
The victory marked the first time Scheffler recorded the lowest actual 72-hole score at the Tour Championship.
His 2024 FedEx Cup victory came under the tournament’s former “starting strokes” format.
As the No. 1 seed that year, Scheffler began the tournament with a two-shot advantage. He officially won by four shots even though two other players recorded lower actual scores over the four rounds.
That distinction has continued to bother him.
“When you’re coming down the stretch of a tournament and you’re tied or one shot back, it’s different than when you’re adding it up at the end and there’s starting strokes and all that stuff,” Scheffler said. “I think having a real tournament to finish the year, where I am the winner and the lowest score at East Lake, feels like a bit more of an accomplishment.”
Scheffler Passes Tiger Woods in Career Earnings
The victory also carried a major financial milestone.
The Tour Championship’s $40 million purse now counts as official PGA Tour prize money, and Scheffler collected $10 million for winning.
That raised his career earnings to $130,390,661 and moved him past Tiger Woods for the top spot on the PGA Tour’s career money list.
Woods had occupied the No. 1 position for nearly 26 years.
The comparison reflects the dramatic growth of PGA Tour prize money over the years. During Woods’ peak from 1997 through 2009, he never competed for a tournament purse larger than $10 million.
Scheffler Wins Three Times in 2026
Scheffler’s Tour Championship victory was his third PGA Tour title of 2026.
Two of those victories came during the final three weeks of the season in the PGA Tour postseason.
His three wins tied Chris Gotterup, Matt Fitzpatrick and U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark for the most victories on tour this year.
Scheffler is also in position to extend another remarkable streak.
PGA Tour players vote for the Jack Nicklaus Award as Player of the Year, and Scheffler has won the honor in each of the past four seasons.
Winning it again would give him five consecutive Player of the Year awards, tying Woods’ record.
Hovland Finishes Second After Costly Putts
The victory also provided Scheffler with some redemption against Hovland, who defeated him in a playoff at the Travelers Championship earlier this year.
That was one of Scheffler’s five runner-up finishes during the season.
Hovland could not reproduce that result Sunday.
The Norwegian made only one birdie and finished with a 72, leaving him alone in second place and earning him $5 million.
Three putts caught the lip of the cup during a four-hole stretch on the back nine, including two birdie attempts and one par attempt.
“He’s just good, and he played good every day,” Hovland said of Scheffler. “I could have shot 66 easily as well today. Just didn’t have it. … It wasn’t like anybody else really played all that great in contention, and that’s what you see — a lot of guys just gagging and throwing up. And that’s where he just kind of stays in it and shoots a nice score. That gets the job done.”
Difficult East Lake Conditions Challenge Field
Scheffler made only two bogeys during the final round.
One came after an aggressive wedge miss from the fairway on the seventh hole, while the other followed a difficult lie in the rough on No. 14.
Otherwise, Scheffler felt he made few mistakes despite challenging wind and firm turf that made landing areas increasingly difficult to hit.
The scoring reflected those conditions.
East Lake played to a cumulative average of 67.35 during the opening three rounds. The average climbed to 70.07 Sunday.
Ryan Gerard began the final round only one shot behind Hovland but made double bogey on the opening hole.
He followed with 13 consecutive pars and finished with a 72 to take third place alone.
“They made it as difficult as they could today, and that’s kind of what we were looking for,” Gerard said. “I just wasn’t on enough to execute shots to really tucked hole locations.”
Scheffler Ends Postseason Disappointments
The FedEx Cup victory also helped Scheffler erase some disappointing memories from previous PGA Tour postseasons.
He lost a six-shot lead to Rory McIlroy in 2022.
The following year, Scheffler began the Tour Championship with a two-shot advantage under the starting-strokes system but finished 16 shots behind Hovland.
This time, Scheffler delivered his strongest golf when the postseason reached its decisive stages.
“To come in this year maybe not winning the tournaments that I could have won throughout the regular season, to come in and win two out of three playoff events, is definitely a nice way to finish off the season,” Scheffler said.
“That was my motto going into the playoffs. Maybe in years I’ve underperformed in the postseason, and maybe this is a year I’ll perform better than I have in the regular season.”
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