🏌Scheffler's Historic Season In Numbers

Good Morning! Limited tickets for the Presidents Cup, scheduled for Sept. 24-29, 2024, at The Royal Montreal Golf Club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, remain available to the public - buy here.

Fun Fact: Xander Schauffele has finished 2024 (excluding FedEx Fall events) with the lowest bogey percentage in a single PGA Tour season (9.5%) on record.

⛳ This day in history: Jay Sigel won the 1983 US Amateur Championship on this date at North Shore Country Club, by an 8 & 7 score over Chris Perry, to give him two consecutive Amateur titles.

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Team US Finalize Roster For Presidents Cup

The lineup for the United States team for the Presidents Cup has been finalized - World No 1 and FedEx Cup champion Scottie Scheffler headlines a group that includes Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Keegan Bradley and more. The tournament will take place from September 26-29 in Montreal, Canada.

Scheffler, Schauffele and Morikawa were joined by Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala as the automatic qualifiers for the US team. Bradley was one of Jim Furyk's six captain's picks along with Sam Burns, Russell Henley, Brian Harman, Max Homa and Tony Finau.

There were notable names left off the roster, particularly Justin Thomas, who has a 10-3-2 record in the past three Presidents Cups. Other notables left off the United States include Billy Horschel, Akshay Bhatia and Chris Kirk.

⛳️ International Team Finalize Squad: The International Team for the 2024 Presidents Cup was finalized Tuesday, with International Team Captain Mike Weir selecting six players to round out his 12-player team. Weir selected South Africa’s Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Canada’s Corey Conners, Taylor Pendrith and Mackenzie Hughes, South Korea’s Si Woo Kim and Australia’s Min Woo Lee.

Of the six captain’s picks, Hughes and Lee are first-time participants, with Kim making his Presidents Cup debut in 2017, and Bezuidenhout, Conners and Pendrith doing so in 2022. In total, five countries are represented on the International Team: Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa and South Korea.

The sextet join the six automatic qualifiers previously announced: Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, Australia’s Adam Scott and Jason Day, and South Korea’s Tom Kim, Sungjae Im and Byeong Hun An.

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Rory Seeks New Record

Rory McIlroy's participation in the DP World Tour Championship has been confirmed, where the World No 3 will aim to win his sixth Race to Dubai title to equal Seve Ballesteros' total of six European Tour Order of Merit triumphs.

McIlroy, who won the Race to Dubai in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2022 and 2023, won the DP World Tour Championship in 2012 and 2015. He'll return to Jumeirah Golf Estates in November aiming to win it for the third time.

He has one win on the DP World Tour so far this year after successfully defending the Dubai Desert Classic in January.

McIlroy will tee it up in next week's Irish Open and then at Wentworth in two weeks' time at the BMW PGA Championship before playing with his dad at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.

He is also confirmed for the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship the week before the DP World Tour Championship, which are both part of the DP World Tour Play-offs. The top 70 in the Race to Dubai qualify for Abu Dhabi, with just the top 50 moving on to the Dubai finale.

McIlroy has been on top of the Race to Dubai since January and currently leads Adam Scott in second-place.

The DP World Tour Championship takes place from November 14-17.

📍JT To Become Daddy: Justin Thomas and his wife Jillian are expecting their first child in late November. Justin and Jillian Thomas, who both hail from Kentucky, dated for five years before becoming engaged in late 2021; they were married in November 2022.

Thomas has not been selected for the Presidents Cup but on a positive note, his spot in this year's FedEx Cup top 50 guarantees access to all of next year's Signature Events, and he'll embark on his 2025 season as a new dad.

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What else is making news

LIV Golf: The circuit bankrolled by the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, will kick off its 2025 season by playing in the country's capital city, Riyadh, for the first time. The tournament, scheduled for Feb. 6-8, will be held at Riyadh Golf Club.

Auction: A handwritten letter from a thoughtful 18-year-old Tiger Woods auctions for big bucks - click here to check the details.

Sponsors' Corner: Imperial, a leading headwear brand, will be the Official Hat Supplier of the US Solheim Cup Team.

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This Is How Historic Scheffler's 2024 Season Has Been

Scottie Scheffler won eight times in ’24, including a Masters victory, an Olympic gold medal, and a season-closing triumph at the big-money Tour Championship. Those are gaudy numbers, earned at lofty events, but somehow they underlie the most impressive number of Scheffler’s 2024: the one staring back from his bank account.

💰 $62,228,357: Scottie Scheffler’s official on-course earnings from the 2024 PGA Tour season.

📌 7: Total number of players in PGA Tour history who have earned more than Scheffler’s 2024 earnings in their entire career. (Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jim Furyk, Vijay Singh, Adam Scott, Justin Rose and Jordan Spieth)

💰 $3,275,176.68: Scheffler’s earnings per tournament start in 2024

💰 $818,794.11: Scheffler’s earnings per tournament round in 2024

💰 $12,039.32: Scheffler’s earnings per shot in 2024

💰 $37,500: Scheffler’s on-course earnings from winning Olympic gold, paid out by the US Olympic Committee.

📌 190: Players on the PGA Tour money list who earned less in 2024 than Scottie Scheffler’s tournament average earnings.

📌 48: Players on the PGA Tour money list who earned more in 2024 than Scottie Scheffler’s tournament average.

📌 476: The number of shots it took Scottie Scheffler to pass Jack Nicklaus’ career on-course earnings in 2024, when averaging Scheffler’s earnings over the entire season.

📌 7: Number of rounds, exactly, it took Scottie Scheffler to pass Jack Nicklaus’ career on-course earnings in 2024, when averaging Scheffler’s earnings over the entire season.

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