Scottie Scheffler is two majors away from completing his career Grand Slam after he won the 2025 PGA Championship, just 366 days after his infamous arrest outside Valhalla Golf Club during the 2024 PGA Championship. The World No. 1 posted an impressive scorecard of 69-68-65-71 for 11-under to win this year’s Championship by five shots over Bryson DeChambeau, Davis Riley, and Harris English. The 28-year-old joins Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as just the third player to win three career majors and 15 PGA Tour titles before turning 29.
Scheffler Eyes Career Grand Slam After Amazing PGA Championship Redemption Story
Scottie Scheffler will have one eye on completing his career Grand Slam after winning the PGA Championship. He still has some distance to cover to become just the seventh player in modern history to complete the career Grand Slam, after Rory McIlroy became the latest when he won the Masters at Augusta National last month.
Scheffler has won two of the four majors and still needs to win the U.S. Open and The Open Championship to write his name in golf’s history books. The 28-year-old will get the chance to do just that next month at the U.S. Open and again in July at The Open Championship. Despite being the World No. 1, winning three majors in a year is a tough ask for anyone, and only Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods have ever managed the feat.
Yet, Scheffler will be confident going into the U.S. Open next month after putting in a dazzling performance to clinch the Wanamaker Trophy. He made birdie or eagle after a bogey or worse six out of ten times this week — the best rate in the field.
How Scheffler Won the PGA Championship
Scheffler started the final round with a three-shot lead, but Jon Rahm stormed back to tie him by the time Scheffler made the turn in a 2-over 37. Rahm birdied three holes in a five-hole stretch, leaving Scheffler struggling with his swing and missing left off several tees. He made bogeys at Nos. 6 and 9, and Rahm caught him with a birdie at 11.
However, Rahm went +5 over his final three holes, with a bogey at 16 and back-to-back double bogeys at 17 and 18, finishing with a 2-over 73 — faltering at the last minute and allowing Scheffler to surge ahead. The World No. 1 carded birdies at 10, 14, and 15 to give himself breathing space. He played the latter two holes in a combined 9 under for the week — four better than Bryson DeChambeau and six better than Rahm — as he confidently cruised through the Green Mile to clinch the Wanamaker Trophy and his 15th career PGA Tour win.
The World No. 1 has now won all three of his majors by at least three strokes, a feat matched only by Seve Ballesteros over the past 100 years. In addition, his five-shot win at Quail Hollow ties for the fourth-largest margin of victory in PGA Championship history.
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