Scottie Scheffler has been named as the 2022 PGA Tour Player of the Year as voted by the tour’s membership for the 2021-22 season. The current World No. 1 led the tour with four victories this season, including his first major title at the Masters Tournament.

Scheffler, who spent four years on the men’s golf team at the University of Texas, received the Jack Nicklaus Award during an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay before the Longhorns football team hosted No. 1 Alabama in Austin.

With 89 percent of the votes, the 26-year-old was selected for the honor over Rory McIlroy and Cameron Smith. PGA Tour members who played at least 15 official FedExCup events during the 2021-22 season were eligible to vote.

Having won the 2019 Player of the Year on the Korn Ferry Tour and the 2020 Arnold Palmer Award as PGA Tour Rookie of the Year in 2020, and now this year's PGA Tour Player of the Year award, Scheffler is the first player to win these three accolades. The awards were established in 1990.

Scheffler’s four victories came at the WM Phoenix Open, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play and the Masters. He collected all four in the span of six starts, becoming the first player to win four times in a six-start stretch since Jason Day during the 2014-15 season.

Only Tiger Woods (eight times) had previously won four times, including a major and a WGC, in the same season. Scheffler totaled 11 top-10 finishes in 25 starts on the season, including four runner-up finishes.

Scheffler held the lead in the FedExCup standings for 24 weeks, including the final 23 weeks of the FedExCup Regular Season, and went on to finish T2 at the Tour Championship, receiving USD5.75 million in FedExCup Bonus Money.

With USD14,046,910 in Official Money, Scheffler earned the most in a single season in PGA Tour history, a record previously held by fellow former Texas Longhorn Jordan Spieth (USD12,030,465 in 2014-15). In addition to the USD5.75 million bonus for finishing No. 2 in the FedExCup standings,

Scheffler also received USD4 million via the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 for finishing the Regular Season as the FedExCup leader and USD1 million for winning the season-long Aon Risk Reward Challenge. He earned a total of USD24,796,910 this season.

Scheffler moved to World No. 1 for the first time in his career following his third victory (March 27). He maintained his position as World No. 1 through the end of the season and has held the top spot for 24 consecutive weeks.