Scottie Scheffler captures first PGA Championship and third major win

It is the 28-year-old Scheffler’s third career major win with the first two coming at the Masters in 2022 and 2024.

Scheffler told CNN he felt “a little on the ropes” on the front nine.

“This golf course will keep you on your toes,” Scheffler said. “It was weird because at 7, 8, 9, I felt like I hit really good tee shots. And I looked up and it was 30 yards left where I was looking which was a bit unsual. Making the turn, I kind of squared my shoulders up and I hit a really good tee ball at 10, a really good tee ball at 11. After that, I did a really good job at executing on a lot of fairways, a lot of greens. Played a really good nine holes when I really needed too.”

Scheffler added that it was ‘really hard to put into words” when asked by CNN’s Patrick Snell to reflect on his journey from his first major win, to becoming father and now winning his third major.

You know (Meredith) and I were talking this morning, we still feel like we’re in high school. I feel like we’re in high school yesterday. We just started dating and all of a sudden you know life out here is pretty cool right now,” Scheffler said.

“This is a lot of fun. But at the end of the day life at home for us is pretty much the same. You know we have a pretty good little life and we have great friends at home and I’m looking forward to getting home and celebrating with them.”

Scheffler also joins Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win three career majors and 15 PGA Tour titles.

The 2025 season did not start off too kindly for Scheffler.

A self-described “stupid” Christmas day injury resulted in surgery on his hand, forcing him to delay the start of his season.

Scheffler would make his season debut in late January at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am in Northern California. He would then go winless until two weeks ago, when he took home a victory at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson at TPC Craig Ranch in McKinney, Texas.

Scores could be deceiving

Scheffler joined Seve Ballesteros as the only golfers in the past 100 years to win each of his first three majors by more than three strokes.

But it wasn’t an easy round for world’s best.

Scheffler came into the fourth and final round with a three-stroke lead but after three bogeys in the front nine, his lead quickly disappeared.

LIV Golf star Jon Rahm surged ahead of him, with the Spaniard looking to win his third major.

However, the 2021 US Open and 2023 Masters winner, completely faltered in the back nine especially on Quail Hollow’s infamous Green Mile where he bogeyed once and double-bogeyed twice to fall to 2-over par on the day and a tie for 8th place.

As Rahm fell, Scheffler arose past his early struggles, sinking back-to-back birdies on holes 14 and 15 to reclaim the lead and never looked back.

The 30-year-old, former Arizona State Sun Devil Rahm, said this was a position he has never been in when asked how he would “heal” from this.

“I think it’s the first time I’ve been in position to win a major that close and haven’t done it. The only times I think I’ve been in the lead in a major on a Sunday, I’ve been able to close it out, and this is a very different situation,” Rahm told reporters after the round.

“So I don’t know exactly. But if it’s ever a time, that’s what family’s for is the best. Luckily I’m going to get home maybe on time to get the kids to bed or not, I’m not sure. To them, whatever I did today, win or lose, they don’t care. So that’s always a good perspective. … But I just need to get over it, get over myself. It’s not the end of the world. It’s not like I’m a doctor or a first responder, where somebody if they have a bad day, truly bad things happen. I’ll get over it. I’ll move on.”

Scottie Scheffler captures first PGA Championship and third major win

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