Do not anticipate the well-known Wanamaker Trophy to be featured prominently on the Scheffler family.
After dominating the course and the sphere at Quail Hole to win his first PGA Championship and – third profession main on Sunday – Scottie Scheffler shrugged when he was requested the place he would put the foremost trophy.
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“The place’s it going to go? I’ve a room in my home referred to as ‘The Golf Room’ and that is the place all my crap goes,” Scheffler stated.
“It is only a room stuffed with all my golf junk. I’ve obtained some trophies in there as effectively and that is most likely the place this one will go.
“I would wish to say that it is properly offered, but it surely’s not.”
After a gradual begin, Scheffler established an enormous lead heading in to Sunday’s remaining spherical – and whereas the ultimate leaderboard made for a dominant win, Scheffler needed to see off a spirited problem.
Spain’s Jon Rahm got here closest, drawing to inside one shot of with world no.1 Scheffler at one level solely to blow his problem with 5 dropped photographs within the final three holes.
Bryson DeChambeau additionally threatened to get right into a place to submit a rating that will have left the ultimate teams considering and chasing.
Nevertheless two dropped photographs in his final six holes left him in a tie for second with Davis Riley and Harris English.
It’s Scheffler’s third main victory and the primary one that did not include a inexperienced jacket.
The 28-year-old received the Masters in 2022 and 2024, and might now add the 2025 PGA Championship to his resume.
He now has half of the titles required for a profession Grand Slam, with the US Open at Oakmont in June, and The Open at Royal Portrush in July standing in entrance of him this yr.
Victories in these occasions not solely would give him three majors in a calendar yr, it will spherical out the Grand Slam in simply over three years having received his first at Augusta in 2022.
The identical period of time it took Tiger Woods to realize the feat.
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After a gradual – by his requirements – begin to the season, Scheffler received the week the CJ Cup with a 31-under-par whole for his 4 rounds, and went back-to-back along with his PGA success at Quail Hole.
Though he admitted afterward that’s didn’t come simple – regardless of the very fact in 10 occasions this season he has two titles, one runners-up end and 7 prime 10 finishes.
“I felt like this was as exhausting as I battled for a match in my profession,” Scheffler stated.
“This was a reasonably difficult week.
“After this week, I’ll go dwelling and prepare for subsequent week’s match, and the present goes on,” Scheffler stated.
“It is an limitless pursuit and it is a whole lot of enjoyable. It is positively one of many nice joys of my life to have the ability to compete out right here.”
His subsequent PGA Tour cease can be at Colonial, the place he’ll look to maintain it rolling.
Scheffler owns 15 PGA Tour victories that extremely have all are available in his final 70 begins.
With the victory, he has joined rarefied air, becoming a member of arguably the game’s two biggest champions.
Scheffler joins Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the one gamers to have received three main championships and notch 15 tour wins earlier than the age of 29.