Scheffler, McIlroy headline PGA Tour Player of the Year voting
Scotty Scheffler is chasing his fourth straight title.
The PGA Tour announced the finalists for Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Award) and Rookie of the Year (Arnold Palmer Award) on Wednesday, and Scheffler once again headlined the voting.
Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Ben Griffin and Rory McIlroy are finalists for Player of the Year; Michael Brennan, Steven Fisk, William Moe, Aldrich Potgett and Carl Willips are nominated for Rookie of the Year.
Scheffler has won three consecutive Player of the Year awards, and when he wins the award in 2024, he will join Tiger Woods as the only players to win it three years in a row. (The Tigers won five consecutive championships from 1999 to 2003 and three consecutive championships from 2005 to 2007.)
Scheffler is also a favorite this year. McIlroy may have had his most important victory of the season — exorcising his demons at Augusta National and claiming a career major — but Scheffler won two majors and McIlroy only one.
Scheffler won a total of six championships, lifting trophies in the C.J. Byron Nelson Trophy, PGA Championship, Memorial Cup, Open Championship, BMW and Procore events. His two majors bring his career total to four, and he now needs just one U.S. Open win to become just the seventh player to win a career major. In addition to the Masters, McIlroy also won The Players and the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He also won the Irish Open, although that victory did not count toward his PGA Tour resume.
Griffin has three wins in 2025. Tommy Fleetwood won once to clinch his long-awaited first PGA Tour victory.
In 2025, all five Rookie of the Year finalists won one each. Potgieter is the only rookie to qualify for the FedExCup Playoffs and ranks 56th in the Fall FedExCup standings.
Both awards are determined by a membership vote, which will close on December 12, with the winners announced shortly thereafter.
Woods’ 11 Jack Nicklaus Awards are the most ever. Scheffler and McIlroy both had three points.
