‘I’ve lived almost a full lifetime in this one year’: Scottie Scheffler caps historic season with $25M Tour Championship win

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler capped off a historic year with triumph at the season-ending Tour Championship on Sunday, cruising to a four shot victory in Atlanta.

Scottie Scheffler is tired. After the year he’s had, can anyone really blame him? The world No. 1 capped off a year in equal parts historic and haywire with triumph at the season-ending Tour Championship on Sunday, cruising to a four-shot victory in Atlanta. Having begun the week with a two-stroke lead at the summit on 10-under par, a reward for his position atop the FedEx Cup standings, the American eased around East Lake with a closing four-under 67 to beat compatriot Collin Morikawa to the $25 million winner’s cut of a $100 million prize purse. It marks the first time since Tiger Woods in 2007 that a player has tallied seven wins in a PGA Tour season, a haul made even more impressive when you add in the Olympic gold, a newborn son and the mid-major arrest that headlined Scheffler’s stunning campaign. “I feel like I’ve lived almost a full lifetime in this one year,” Scheffler told reporters. “It’s been nuts.” “I’m exhausted right now,” he added. “There’s really no other way around it. I’m just really, really tired.”