I said it, and he did it. Scottie Scheffler is your 2026 FedEx Cup champion, and he did it in exactly the way I thought he would — needing a good Thursday, getting one, and then just being Scottie Scheffler for four straight days at a golf course that was clearly built for him.

The Round That Decided It

Scheffler came into Sunday three shots back of Viktor Hovland, and it took him almost no time at all to erase that. On the par-3 second hole, he hit a tee shot that nearly went in the hole for an ace, and that swing basically set the tone for his entire day. By the time he walked off the fourth green, he had already caught Hovland at the top of the leaderboard. From there he was in total control. He carded a 4-under 66, tied for the low round of the entire day, and he was the only player in the final three pairings to shoot under par in the final round. Everybody around him wilted a little on a tough golf course, and Scottie just kept doing what Scottie does. He closed it out at 16 under for the week, three shots clear of Hovland, and the FedEx Cup was his.

And here’s the part that makes it even more ridiculous — he did this without any of the old starting-strokes cushion. This is his second FedEx Cup, and unlike the first one back in 2024 when he came into the week already sitting at 10-under thanks to the staggered scoring format, this time it was a flat, even-par start for all 30 guys, and he still won by three. No head start, no cushion, just flat out the best player in the field for four days. That now puts him in some pretty rare company too — he joins Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy as the only players with multiple FedEx Cups to their name.

Now Let’s Talk Player of the Year

This is where it gets interesting, and honestly, I don’t think it’s that complicated. Scottie Scheffler should be the PGA Tour Player of the Year, and it isn’t particularly close.

Look at the résumé. He finishes the season with three wins, including the Tour Championship itself. He’s got a pile of top-5 finishes to go with that — somewhere around a dozen of them across his starts this year — and only one missed cut all season, which snapped one of the longest made-cuts streaks in Tour history. On top of all that, he’s been sitting at or near the top of basically every meaningful statistical category on Tour all year, whether it’s strokes gained, greens in regulation, or scoring average. Speaking of which, he came into this week chasing his own PGA Tour scoring-average record from last season, and with the way he played at East Lake, I’m pretty sure he just broke it. His own record. That’s the level we’re talking about.

And then there’s the money. With this win, Scheffler officially passed Tiger Woods on the PGA Tour’s all-time career earnings list. Passing Tiger Woods on any list is a big deal, and doing it in the same week you win your second FedEx Cup is just absurd timing.

I really don’t see how the voters give this to anybody else. Wyndham Clark had an amazing season too, don’t get me wrong — a U.S. Open, a CJ Cup Byron Nelson, a BMW Championship, a legitimately great year. If Scottie hadn’t won this week, I think that award turns into a genuine toss-up between the two of them, and it might have gone Clark’s way given the major championship on his résumé. But Scottie went out and won the biggest, richest event of the season, on a course that suited him, in a format with zero head start, and did it while stacking up historic numbers the entire way. That should be the end of the conversation.

Bottom Line

I picked him to win, and he went out and made it look easy once he got through that first round. Two FedEx Cups now, a scoring record on the line, passing Tiger on the money list, and a Player of the Year award that should be a formality at this point. It’s honestly a little unfair how good this guy is.

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