World No.1 Scheffler Wins PGA Tour Player of the Year for Second Consecutive Year
38% Support in Player Voting, Awarded Two Years in a Row
35-Year-Old Cole Wins 51% of Votes, Second Oldest Rookie of the Year
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler (USA) won the Player of the Year award for the second consecutive year.
The PGA Tour announced on the 3rd (local time) that "Scheffler received 38% of the votes for the 2022/2023 Player of the Year and was awarded the Jack Nicklaus Award." He triumphed over competitors Wyndham Clark (USA), Viktor Hovland (Norway), Rory McIlroy (Northern Ireland), and Jon Rahm (Spain). He is the first player to win back-to-back awards since the 'Golf Emperor' Tiger Woods (USA), who won three consecutive times from 2005 to 2007.
Scheffler successfully defended his title at last year's WM Phoenix Open and secured two wins, including the 'fifth major' The Players Championship. He demonstrated remarkable consistency with 13 top-5 finishes and 17 top-10 finishes. He leads the money list with $21,014,342. He also topped the scoring average last season with 68.63 strokes and received the Byron Nelson Award.
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35-year-old Eric Cole (USA) won the Arnold Palmer Award for Rookie of the Year with 51% of the votes. He fended off challengers Ludwig Aberg (Sweden), Nico Echavarria (Colombia), and Vincent Norman (Sweden). Cole is the second oldest rookie of the year in history since 39-year-old Todd Hamilton (USA) in 2004. Although Cole did not win any tournaments last season, he finished runner-up twice at the Cognizant Classic and the Zozo Championship. He was the only rookie to advance to the playoff (PO) event, the BMW Championship. The Player of the Year and Rookie of the Year awards were voted on by members. Players who participated in at least 15 tournaments voted from December 1 to 15 of last year.
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