Scottie Scheffler erased a three-shot deficit to win the TOUR Championship, claim his second FedExCup and pass Tiger Woods atop the PGA TOUR money list.
Scottie Scheffler just put an exclamation point on the 2026 PGA TOUR season.
The world No. 1 fired a final-round 4-under 66 at East Lake Golf Club, erased a three-shot deficit and won the TOUR Championship by three shots over Viktor Hovland.
The victory gave Scheffler his second FedExCup title and pushed him past Tiger Woods for No. 1 on the PGA TOUR’s all-time career earnings list.
Scheffler finished the week at 16 under, and his Sunday charge started almost immediately.
At the 211-yard par-3 second, he stuffed a 5-iron to within inches of the hole for an easy birdie. Two holes later, he rolled in a 25-foot birdie putt to pull even with Hovland.
By the back nine, Scheffler had flipped the tournament.
He moved ahead for good at No. 13 and never gave Hovland the opening he needed down the stretch. Hovland, who began the final round with the lead, ultimately finished three shots behind Scheffler.
The win also reshaped a season that had been unusual by Scheffler’s absurdly high standards.
It was his third PGA TOUR victory of 2026, with two of those coming during the FedExCup Playoffs.
He had already won the FedEx St. Jude Championship by eight shots earlier in August and now finishes the postseason with the biggest prize of all.
Scheffler also had five runner-up finishes during the season, including a playoff loss to Hovland at the Travelers Championship.
Then there’s the money milestone.
The TOUR Championship’s $40 million purse now counts as official PGA TOUR money, and Scheffler collected $10 million for the victory.
That lifted his career PGA TOUR earnings to approximately $130.39 million, moving him ahead of Woods’ long-standing mark of $120,999,166.
That record requires context, of course. Woods built his total in an era with dramatically smaller purses and spent roughly 26 years atop the list.
Scheffler himself acknowledged before the tournament that comparing earnings across generations is essentially comparing different economic eras of professional golf.
Still, the number is another marker of Scheffler’s remarkable run.
He’s now a two-time FedExCup champion, remains the world’s top-ranked golfer and has another strong case for the Jack Nicklaus Award as PGA TOUR Player of the Year.
Scheffler has won that award four straight times. After what happened Sunday at East Lake, making it five would hardly be surprising.
