SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER

El Dominio del Campeón

Con su victoria en el reciente The Player Championship, el considerado quinto grande, Scottie Scheffler se convertía en el tercer jugador tras Jack Nicklaus y Tiger Woods en ganar el Masters y The Players de forma consecutiva.

Dominant Champion

With his victory at The Players Championship, popularly known as the “fifth major”, Scottie Scheffler became only the third player after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods to hold both that title and the US Masters at the same time.

Le salieron sin duda las cosas bordadas al estadounidense en el Stadium Course del TPC de Sawgrass: sumaba su sexto triunfo en los últimos 400 días, igual que Jon Rahm, y arrebataba el número uno del ranking mundial al vasco, retirado del torneo por culpa de un virus estomacal.

De esta forma, abría una amplia brecha con el de Barrika en la carrera mundial, y también ensanchaba la distancia con el tercero de ese ranking planetario,

Things certainly went well for the American on the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass: he secured his sixth victory over the last 400 days, the same number as Jon Rahm, and regained the world number one ranking from the Spaniard, who withdrew from the tournament suffering from a stomach virus.

In the process, he opened a wide gap against the Basque star in the world ranking, and also widened the distance between him and thirdplaced Rory McIlroy. The Northern Irishman, like

Rory McIlroy. El norirlandés, al igual que el jugador español, no estuvo nada afortunado en el TPC, tanto que no superó el corte, contratiempo que no le ocurría desde hacía ocho meses.

Scheffler, además de la gloria, se llevó el mayor premio individual hasta la fecha de un torneo de golf PGA Tour, 4,5 millones de dólares, cifra solo superada por lo que se embolsa el ganador

In addition to the glory, Scheffler also won the biggest individual prize to date in a PGA Tour tournament: $4.5 million

Rahm, was out of fortune at the TPC, where he missed the cut for the first time in eight months.

In addition to the glory, Scheffler also won the biggest individual prize to date in a PGA Tour tournament: $4.5 million. This figure is only surpassed by the amount pocketed by the de cada competición del LIV Golf en caso de que además de su triunfo individual (4 millones de dólares) su equipo resulte igualmente ganador (750.000 dólares: 3 millones a repartir entrecuatro). El fuerte desembolso que realiza la liga financiada por Arabia Saudí ha beneficiado di - winner of each LIV Golf event ($4 million), provided their team is also victorious in the same competition (an additional $750,000 – with $3 million shared among the four colleagues).

The lucrative outlay by the Saudi Arabian investment-funded league has directly benefited players on the PGA Tour, which has raised the prize money of its major tournaments, such as the TPC, to unprecedented levels. By way of comparison, Scheffler was paid $2.7 million rectamente a los jugadores del PGA Tour, circuito que ha elevado a cifras nunca antes vistas la dotación en premios de sus grandes torneos, como es el caso del TPC.

A título comparativo, a Scheffler se le pagaron 2,7 millones de dólares por su victoria en el Masters del año pasado. Esa misma cifra fue la que se embolsó en 2021 Justin Thomas por su triunfo en The Players, torneo que el año pasado premió a su campeón, Cameron Smith, con 3,6 millones.

Scheffler, nacido hace 26 años en Rid - for his victory at last year’s Masters. That same amount was pocketed in 2021 by Justin Thomas for his win at The Players, a tournament that last year rewarded champion Cameron Smith (not permitted to defend his title as he is now part of the LIV Golf League), with $3.6 million.

Born 26 years ago in Ridgewood (New gewood, Nueva Jersey, demostró en The Players, en el famoso campo de Ponte Vedra, Florida, su excelente momento de juego al imponerse con -17 y cinco golpes de ventaja sobre el segundo clasificado (Tyrrell Hatton). Sus -17, mejor resultado de este siglo tras los -18 de Webb Simpson en 2018, le permitían retornar a lo grande por tercera vez a la cima del ranking mundial.

Esta de The Player era la sexta victoria de Scheffler tras la doble en el Phoenix Open y las conse -

Jersey), Scheffler demonstrated his excellent form at The Players, held at the famous Ponte Vedra course in Florida, by winning with a 17-under total and a five-stroke margin over runner-up Tyrrell Hatton. His winning score

Now in his fifth year as a professional, up to and including The Players he has had a halfdozen wins, five second place and five third places finishes, with a total of 32 top 10s was the second-best this century, after Webb Simpson’s 18-under in 2018, and it enabled him to return to the top of the world ranking in style –for a third time. guidas en el Arnold Palmer Invitational, el World Golf Championships Match Play y el Masters.

En su quinto año como profesional y hasta el The Players incluido, había disputado en el PGA Tour, al que se unió en 2020, 97 torneos, de los cuales en 78 había pasado el corte. Además de su media docena de triunfos, había cosechado 5 segundos puestos y otros 5 terceros, con un total de 32 top 10. Sus ganancias en premios ascendían a 32 millones de dólares. ■

It was Scheffler’s sixth PGA Tour victory, following his double at the 2022 and 2023 Phoenix Open and wins at the 2022 Arnold Palmer Invitational,World Golf Championships Match Play and Masters.

Now in his fifth year as a professional, up to and including The Players he had competed in 97 tournaments on the PGA Tour, which he joined in 2020 – making the cut in 78 of them. In addition to his half-dozen wins, he has had five second place and five third places finishes, with a total of 32 top 10s. His accumulated prizemoney amounts to $32 million. ■