Golfer Scottie Scheffler took the coveted green jacket, making history in Augusta, Georgia, as the fifth golfer to enter Augusta National ranked No. 1 in the world and win the Masters.
According to the PGA Tour statistics, the 25-year-old has only won three major tournaments: the Masters, World Golf Championships, and the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He has only won four events on the tour in his four-year stretch in the PGA. However, Scheffler is currently the number one golfer in the world.
His scoring average is presently 69.676, and his other stats such as driving and sand game are average, but he shines on greens in regulation, ranking sixth with 71.26%. In birdie and scoring average, he ranks third overall. He is ranked first in FEDEX regular-season points, official world ranking, and money, with a whopping $10,098,014 earned in his four years.
Following Scheffler’s big win, Golf Digest did an article on him featuring unknown facts about the golfer.
He began playing golf at six when “the Scheffler’s borrowed money to join Royal Oaks Country Club in Dallas, mostly so that Scottie had a place to practice,” said Golf Digest. He started working with swing coach Randy Smith and has been with him since.
When he was early in his days as an amateur, Golf Digest reported, “he won the U.S. Junior Amateur and earned an invitation to play in his first PGA Tour event at age 17.” However, Scheffler held off and did not join the league until 2018.
A lesser-known fact about Scheffler is his involvement in the PGA junior tour. After growing up in the junior tour, Scheffler pledged to give back to the league and began to follow through on his promise in 2019.
The Northern Texas PGA (NTPGA) Foundation announced a new partnership with Scottie Scheffler as he supports junior golf in conjunction with the RSM Birdies Fore Love grant program.
“During the Ewing Charity Classic, held in December 2019, Scheffler announced that $50,000 of the $300,000 he won through the RSM Birdies Fore Love program would be donated to the NTPGA Foundation,” said the NTPGA.
Those funds introduce young golfers to the sport, giving them opportunities to learn and compete, and even fund scholarships if they carry golf into college.
Scheffler is adamant about giving back to the programs that helped him and others like him.
With the Masters being the last major tournament for a bit, his next chance to win a major will be at the PGA Championship in mid-May. He’ll also have a chance to win the U.S. Open in mid-June, plus the Open Championship in July.
