McGillroy's 'reverse driving' threatens Scheffler's 'poisoning'...PGA's situation is 'unexpected'
McGillroy's 'reverse driving' threatens Scheffler's 'poisoning'...PGA's situation is 'unexpected'
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About a year ago, the overwhelming performances of Scottie Scheffler and Nelly Korda were the biggest topics on the PGA and LPGA tours. Coincidentally, the men's and women's world No. 1 players won the title at each competition, showing off their powerful skills.
First, Nelly Koda of the U.S. started the 2024 season opener with a record of tying for 16th place, but won the second event, the Drive-On Championship, after a neck-and-neck race with Lydia Ko, and won the title in five consecutive events including the Perheels Sherifac Championship, the Ford Championship, the T-Mobile Match Play and the Chevron Championship.
The five consecutive wins are a record that matches legendary Annika Sorenstam of Sweden and Nancy Lopez of the U.S. and a milestone reminiscent of Byron Nelson (1945) and Tiger Woods' seven consecutive wins (2006) on the PGA Tour.
After five consecutive wins, Coda was suspended from the Cognizant Founders Cup (joint seventh), but won again at the Mizuho Americas Open next week and at the end of the season at The Anika Driven, showing off his strength to win as many as seven games during the 2024 season.
Schaeffler of the U.S. is one step further away. In the PGA Tour, where competition is so tight that it is hard to compare with that of the LPGA, Schaeffler surprised officials by participating in five competitions for seven weeks from early March, with four wins and one runner-up.
Moreover, the four competitions that reached the top have two major (level) titles (Players Championship, Masters) and two signature competitions (Arnold Palmer Invitational, RBC Heritage) with a prize of $20 million.
[*註: The Players Championship ($25 million), which has the most prize money, is called the fifth major tournament on the PGA Tour (Master's, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and The Open). The five FedEx points are 750 points, 1.5 times the average tournament, and the eight signature tournaments are 700 points, 1.4 times the prize money of $20 million.]
Scheffler won the Memorial Tournament and the Travelers Championship, another signature competition, and acquired the Tour Championship, the final competition of this season, to achieve seven wins. Scheffler had two out of five major competitions for this season and four out of eight signature competitions. He even won the gold medal at the Paris Olympics, giving the U.S. a second consecutive Olympic gold medal (Gender Shopley in Tokyo).
His performance was overwhelming enough to remind him of Tiger Woods in his prime, and his No. 1 ranking in the world, No. 1 in prize money and points for the tour, and No. 1 in player of the year (2022-2024) for the third consecutive year was a natural outcome. The $29,228,357 he earned last year is also the highest single-season prize.
However, while Scheffler has slowed down a little this year, Rory McIlroy (36, Northern Ireland) began to threaten Scheffler's dominance with an unprecedented strength. Scheffler suffered an unexpected injury when he injured his hand on a broken piece of glass during a dinner with his family at the end of last Christmas. Therefore, his first appearance of the season was not possible until early February when he became AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in January, and since then, he has played in four competitions, including the Players Championship, which he has been aiming to win for three consecutive years, but has still recorded 100,000 top-two times without winning a championship.
McIlroy, on the other hand, won the first major competition of the season, the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and won the first major competition of the year. With 4.5 million dollars in prize money and 750 FedEx points at the Players Championship, McIlroy not only topped the list in prize money (8,719,714 dollars) and points (1,586 points), but also successfully laid the foundation for him to pursue Scheffler in the OWGR (World Golf Ranking).
According to the OWGR as of the end of last year, Scheffler had 15.60 points, more than twice as far ahead of McGillroy (7.67 points), who was ranked third. However, as of the end of this year, McGillroy, who is on an upward trajectory, has fiercely pursued and risen to the second place, and as of Tuesday, the gap has significantly narrowed to four points, ranging from 13.86 to 9.86 points.
If Scheffler's concentration of 13 wins in just three seasons from the 2021-2022 season to last year is outstanding, McGillroy can be said to be the epitome of consistency. McGillroy, who has 28 wins so far this year, his 16th season since he won his first PGA Tour victory at the Quail Hallo Championship in 2010, has recorded more than one win each except for only three seasons in 2013, 2017, and 2020, and even if he has won more than three games each season, he has four wins in 2012 (4 wins), 2014, 2019, and 2021-2022 seasons.
In addition, six major or major-level championships are included among the 28 wins, including the first major title, the U.S. Open in 2011, two PGA Championships (2012, 14), two Players Championships (2019, 25), and the 2014 De Open. In addition, the Tour Championship, the final playoff game of the season, was held three times in 2016, 19 and 22, and the competition is all about earning a large amount of FedEx point bonuses. 메이저사이트
McGuilloy is on the verge of surpassing $100 million for the second time in his career with $99.7 million in prize money by earning a huge $4.5 million in the Players Championship. The figure will be achieved if he passes the cutoff in his next tournament. Tiger Woods ($120.999,166) is the only player who has exceeded $100 million.
McIlroy, who is also the strongest player with 11 wins at the DP World Tour (European Tour), has been regarded as Tiger Woods' rival and successor, and has taken on the leadership role of strongly representing the PGA Tour's position in the face of conflict between the PGA Tour and LIV. He is the first non-U.S. player to be elected as a member of the PGA Tour's policy board in 2022.