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Scottie Scheffler’s caddie, Ted Scott, is circling the wagons with the Buffalo Bills

Since Scott seemed so instrumental in getting Scheffler his first win, it only seemed natural his influence could help the Buffalo Bills.

Soon after Ted Scott started in his role as caddie for Scottie Scheffler, the Texan ended his run as the most acclaimed young PGA Tour player yet to win a title.

When Scott and Scheffler went through a trial run at the RSM Classic in November of 2021, Scheffler shot 63 in the first round.

“Literally, I had nothing to do with it,” Scott said at the time. “The next day was like the hardest day caddying in my life. I don’t know his game and 25-mile-per-hour winds. It was wild. He handled it with such maturity. I learned a lot about him.”

Scheffler then finished second at the Hero World Challenge in December, and in just their fifth tournament together, at the WM Phoenix Open, as Scheffler rallied on the back nine and outlasted Patrick Cantlay to claim his first PGA Tour title.

His run has been nothing short of incredible ever since, with 13 PGA Tour wins, including a pair of Masters green jackets.

More: Scottie Scheffler is auctioning off his Yukon with 200,000 miles. You won’t believe current bid, who the high bidder is (Hint: Hello, friends)

Since Scott seemed so instrumental in getting Scheffler across the victory finish line, it only seemed natural his influence could help the Buffalo Bills, who have enjoyed another impressive winning stretch under quarterback Josh Allen and coach Sean McDermott. The Bills have won the AFC East in each of the last four seasons, winning a first-round playoff game each year, but have failed to reach the Super Bowl since 1993.

McDermott spent time with Scott over the summer, talking about the nuances of sports psychology. Scott explained that when Scheffler started to keep things simple, eliminating major mistakes, he started to see greater success.

Soon after, McDermott passed the message along to Allen.

This week, the Bills face a home test against division rival Miami, and Scott took the opportunity to come up to practice, meet with the team, and he plans to stick around for Sunday’s contest.

Scott even spoke to the team on Friday.

Scheffler’s incredible success has proved a financial windfall for Scott. Although all caddies may be paid slightly differently depending on their relationship with a player, the normal scale is as follows: 10 percent of winnings if a caddie’s player wins, seven percent for a top 10 and five percent for making the cut.

Scott is assumed to have brought in around $5 million this season, a stat that would put him in the top 25 of all PGA Tour players.

Of course, Allen has a few dollars in his bank account, as well. The quarterback signed a six-year, $258 million contract extension in 2021, which now seems like a bargain. The University of Wyoming product has a 69-32 record as the Bills starter.

Scottie Scheffler PGA Tour wins and earnings

Event Date Earnings
WM Phoenix Open February 13, 2022 $1,476,000
Arnold Palmer Invitational March 6, 2022 $2,160,000
WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play March 27, 2022 $2,100,000
Masters Tournament April 10, 2022 $2,700,000
WM Phoenix Open February 12, 2023 $3,600,000
The Players Championship March 12, 2023 $4,500,000
RBC Heritage April 16, 2023 $3,600,000
Memorial Tournament June 4, 2023 $4,000,000
Travelers Championship June 25, 2023 $3,600,000
The Players Championship March 17, 2024 $4,500,000
Masters Tournament April 14, 2024 $3,600,000
Tour Championship August 25, 2024 $25,000,000

 

Scottie Scheffler is auctioning off his Yukon with 200,000 miles. You won’t believe current bid, who the high bidder is (Hint: Hello, friends)

Scheffler is auctioning off his 2012 GMC Yukon XL for a cause near and dear to his heart.

Scottie Scheffler has found a great use for his famous 2012 GMC Yukon XL. He’s donating it to charity and it is up for auction. Current high bidder: Jim Nantz.

Scheffler has driven the same car his father, Scott, bought after the family’s car broke down more than a decade ago in Augusta, Georgia, at the 2012 Masters and they needed to get back home to Dallas. The Schefflers ended up buying a new car at Masters Buick GMC on Washington Road in Augusta, just down the street from Augusta National, where Scottie has since stamped his place in the game with not one but two Green Jackets. (“It’s got a Masters GMC logo on the back of it,” Scottie said of the car.)

Scott used the vehicle to take his son to junior tournaments on the Legends Junior Tour in Texas and to AJGA events. It was nicknamed GMC Airlines, and they drove it from coast to coast. His father gave Scottie the car when he graduated from the University of Texas, and he drove it to Monday qualifiers and during his one season on the Korn Ferry Tour before graduating to the big leagues. When Scheffler last talked about the car in 2022, he estimated it had 190,000 miles on it. Scott drove the entire family back to Augusta, including their dog Scout, for the 2022 Masters, the first time Scottie won the Masters.

“I drive like three places at home,” Scottie told reporters in 2022. “I go to the golf course, where I work out and a restaurant that’s usually within five minutes of the house.”

Despite topping the PGA Tour money list the last few years and being able to afford any wheels he’d like, Scottie kept driving his Yukon. “Why do I need to change it? It’s reliable,” he said.

But recently, he found a legitimate reason to change — he was given a new car to drive by a sponsor — and with the birth of son Bennett it was probably time for an upgrade. Safety first!

Scottie Scheffler pictured in his 2012 GMC Yukon XL after winning the 2022 Masters. (Courtesy TOKC)

But what to do with his Yukon, a vehicle that could tell a thousand golf stories? The world No. 1 and reigning Masters champ donated his famous wheels to Triumph Over Kid Cancer (TOKC), a non-profit that raises money for childhood cancer research. TOKC was co-founded by James Ragan, a childhood friend of Scottie’s who he competed against on the Texas Legends Junior Tour and later when James played at Rice, and his older sister, Mecklin. James was 13 when he was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare and often fatal form of bone cancer, in 2006 and battled the disease for 7½ years. Scottie and James once won the Corpus Christi Country Club member-guest, and Mecklin noted that the members still joke about how Scottie is only the Masters champion to win the Corpus Christi member-guest.

Nantz recalled meeting James at MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital during “Lunch with a Legend,” an event he hosted with Jack Nicklaus.

“He was a hero to so many of us,” said Nantz. “This kid was special. He could’ve been the President of the United States. He was super-smart, incredibly gifted and composed, kind, thoughtful and he had a great life to be lived that was taken away from him and he truly never felt sorry for himself.”

The Schefflers have been longtime supporters of TOKC, including serving as the honorary starter for TOKC’s annual James A. Ragan Triumph Scramble golf tournament in honor of his friend. He also formed his own program called “Scottie’s Heroes” to provide special golf clubs to young cancer patients. On Oct. 25, Scheffler and Nantz shared the stage for a fireside chat at the Post Oak Hotel in Houston as part of the Teeing Off on Childhood Cancer Gala to raise money for TOKC and fund research and patient initiatives at The University of Texas MD Anderson Children’s Cancer Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital.

Trevor Immelman and Jim Nantz in the CBS booth at the 2023 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. (Richard Green/CBS)

When the auction began for Scheffler’s Yukon at the fundraising dinner, Nantz commented, “That’s quite a collector’s piece.” As the bidding jumped from $10,000 to more than $15,000, Scheffler was baffled as to why anyone would pay such a princely price for his old wheels. That’s about when Nantz raised his hand to enter the bidding war. The auctioneer assumed he was raising the bid to $18,000, the next minimum requirement. Nantz bumped the bid into another stratosphere.

“Fifty thousand,” he said. “I’ll be more than happy to store Scottie’s car in my garage.”

And that’s how Nantz became the high bidder for Scheffler’s wheels at the end of the live auction. But that figure simply represents the opening bid when the auction resumes online by Heritage Auction House. Check back for a link, so, you, too, can get in on the bidding.

Scottie Scheffler headlines commitments for 2024 Hero World Challenge; no word on Tiger Woods

No word on whether tournament host Tiger Woods will compete.

World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler is set to defend his title at the Hero World Challenge in December as the tournament announced 17 competitors in the 20-man field. No word on whether tournament host Tiger Woods will compete and start his latest comeback from his latest surgery.

This year’s field features five of the top 10 players in the world. In addition to Scheffler, who also won the Masters in April, Olympic Gold in Paris in July and the FedEx Cup in August, No. 7 Hideki Matsuyama, the 2016 tournament champion, returns after an absence, as does No. 9 Patrick Cantlay, who starred at the Presidents Cup last month. Nine members of the United States’ victorious 2024 Presidents Cup team and three members of the International team (Matsuyama, Sungjae Im and Tom Kim) will compete at Albany.

Six players will make their Hero World Challenge debuts this December – Ludvig Aberg, Sahith Theegala, Russell Henley, Robert MacIntyre, Aaron Rai and Matthieu Pavon. The 2024 field represents golfers from seven different countries (U.S., Republic of Korea, Japan, England, Scotland, France and Sweden).

Woods, a five-time past champion of the event, had microdecompression surgery on his lower back Sept. 13 to relieve nerve impingement and back pain. He hasn’t announced when he plans to try to play again. He often has used the Hero World Challenge as a barometer of how his body is feeling in a 72-hole, no-cut event and work off some rust after a layoff. Woods last played at the British Open in July. The 2024 edition of the tournament returns to Albany for the ninth year, from Dec. 5-8.

The remaining three sponsor invites into the field will be announced at a later date. It’s not unusual for Woods to wait to announce his participation in the event. He typically also plays in the PNC Championship with son Charlie, which will be played the weekend before Christmas this year.

After second place finishes at Albany in 2021 and 2022, Scheffler capped off his second straight year as PGA Tour Player of the Year with a victory in the 2023 Hero World Challenge. Following an opening-round 69, Scheffler took control of the tournament with rounds of 66 and 65 on Friday and Saturday – both the low rounds of the days. A final-round 68 Sunday sealed the victory.

Live television coverage of the Hero World Challenge will be provided by Golf Channel during all four rounds and by NBC Sports during the third and final rounds.

Golfer OWGR Country
Scottie Scheffler 1 U.S.
Ludvig Aberg 5 Sweden
Wyndham Clark 6 U.S.
Hideki Matsuyama 7 Japan
Patrick Cantlay 9 U.S.
Sahith Theegala 12 U.S.
Keegan Bradley 13 U.S.
Russell Henley 15 U.S.
Robert MacIntyre 16 Scotland
Sam Burns 17 U.S.
Brian Harman 19 U.S.
Sungjae Im 20 Korea
Tony Finau 21 U.S.
Tom Kim 23 Korea
Aaron Rai 24 England
Billy Horschel 25 U.S.
Matthieu Pavon 26 France
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Scottie Scheffler gets laugh over subtle jab at his PGA Championship arrest on ESPN’s College GameDay

While on ESPN’s GameDay, the No. 1 player in the world picked his alma mater, but also got a laugh.

AUSTIN, Texas — By the time the final pick of ESPN’s College GameDay was made on Saturday, there was little drama remaining. Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world, was certain to pick the top-ranked Texas football team in Saturday’s showdown between his alma mater and the Georgia Bulldogs, a game that former Austin American-Statesman reporter Brian Davis has called the “biggest game in Royal-Memorial Stadium history.”

But earlier in the show, Scheffler did drop a surprise: Making a comical remark about how much he loves the fans in a certain city.

“Yeah, not to bring anything person to this with Louisville, a great city, love the people,” Scheffler said while the other panelist laughed. “But I think Miami’s going to smoke this.”

Of course, Scheffler was referring to the incident in which he was arrested by police after a traffic misunderstanding ahead of his second round at the 2024 PGA Championship. Scheffler was booked at 7:28 a.m ET, according to online records accessed by Golfweek. ESPN was first to report.

Scheffler faced four charges: Assault in the second degree of a police officer, criminal mischief in the third degree, reckless driving and disregarding signals from officers directing traffic.

The world’s No. 1-ranked golfer was later relieved of all charges. Scheffler was handcuffed and briefly jailed after a Louisville police officer claimed the golfer failed to stop his SUV when ordered to do so. The officer claimed he was dragged and injured by Scheffler’s vehicle.

As for his segment on ESPN,

“Like I say a lot on Tour, being No. 1 I still start even par score zero-zero, so hopefully the guys will show up ready to play tonight,” Scheffler said. “But it should be fun.”

Scottie Scheffler refused to pick Louisville on College GameDay after his PGA Championship arrest

Did anyone think Scottie would pick Louisville here?

With ESPN’s College GameDay in Austin this Saturday for a showdown between No. 1 Texas and No. 5 Georgia, it only made sense to call up the one athlete who is equally revered (and dominant) in both states to serve as this week’s guest picker: World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler.

The two-time Masters champion is a Dallas native who attended Texas.

Yet before he could make his pick between the Longhorns and Bulldogs, the conversation turned to the Louisville-Miami game. And if anyone thought there was a chance Scheffler would back the Cardinals, they clearly forgot about what happened the last time the golf star went to Louisville.

He was arrested trying to enter the 2024 PGA Championship.

Without missing a beat, Scheffler quickly backed the Hurricanes, noting he didn’t even need to watch any film to make this pick.

“Not to bring anything personal into this with Louisville,” Scheffler said with a smirk. “Great city, love the people, but I think Miami is going to smoke them.”

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Texas Ex Scottie Scheffler will act as College GameDay guest picker

Former Texas Longhorn golfer Scottie Scheffler has had one of the best and craziest years in sports history, now he can add ESPN College GameDay Guest Picker to the list.

We had a feeling. In our ‘Ranking possible College GameDay guest pickers‘ article, we ranked former Texas Longhorns golfer Scottie Scheffler as the No. 1 candidate.

Now we know. Scheffler will indeed act as the College GameDay guest picker. ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit announced Thursday on the Pat McAfee Show that Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1-ranked golfer in the world, will get the honors.

Scheffler has had one of the best and one of the craziest years in golf history. Maybe sports history.

This all happened in 2024:
March 10: Won Arnold Palmer Invitational
March 17: Won The Players Championship
April 14: Won The Masters
April 22: Won the RBC Heritage
May 8: First child is born — a son named Bennett
May 17: Arrested outside of the PGA Championship
May 17: Made Tee Time and shot a 5-under 66
May 19: Finished 8th at the PGA Championship
May 29: Charges against Scheffler dropped
June 9: Won Memorial Tournament
June 23: Won the Travelers Championship
July 11: Won the ESPY for Best Golfer
Aug. 4: Won Olympic Gold Medal at the 2024 Paris Games
Sept. 1: Won the Tour Championship
Sept. 1: Won the 2024 FedEx Cup
Sept. 1: Total earnings $64,228,357
Oct. 17: Named ESPN College GameDay guest picker

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If it was a movie script it’d be rejected as absurdly unrealistic. He won his second Players. He won his second Masters. He had a kid. Arrested nine days later outside the gates of a major championship … that he was playing in. Still played well. Charges dropped then a hot run that saw four more wins, the Tour Championship and the FedEx cup all in one day.

Nine wins, one major, one baby, one arrest, the FedEx cup and $62 million … in winnings. Oh, and a gold medal. Only the third American to do it. Oh, and an ESPY. That doesn’t count what he’s made on endorsements. Or, for that matter, what he’s lost in attorney fees.

Scheffler became the only golfer in history to win the The Players Championship, the Masters Tournament and the Tour Championship in the same season this year. Tiger never did it. Jack never did it.

Now he comes home to Austin as the celebrity face of the University, which is kind of what the guest picker has become.

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If Tiger Woods had ever had the year Scottie just had we’d still be talking about it. But Scheffler’s calm ‘every-man’ demeanor and look probably hurts in the Q-Rating. But it does help win golf tournaments. It will be great to see Scheffler in this kind of fun setting and getting rewarded for making history.

Texas has had a lot of incredible golfers. Crenshaw, Kite, Leonard, Spieth. But this mild mannered guy might be the best of the bunch.

Scheffler has been on ESPN College GameDay in the past. The Texas golf team presented him with the Jack Nicklaus Award. Glen Powell was the guest picker that day. Texas lost to Alabama 20-19 after Quinn Ewers was injured. 

Scottie Scheffler to make another appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay at Georgia vs. Texas

What will be in store for Scheffler’s next appearance? We’ll find out this weekend.

Two years ago, Scottie Scheffler was caught off-guard during an appearance on ESPN’s College GameDay before the Longhorns football team hosted then-No. 1 Alabama in Austin.

Texas men’s golf coach John Fields presented Scheffler with the Jack Nicklaus Award for being the 2022 PGA Tour Player of the Year in front of the reigning NCAA men’s championship golf team.

What will be in store for Scheffler’s next appearance? We’ll find out this weekend.

Scheffler will be on set with the GameDay crew as the top-ranked Texas football team hosts one of the biggest games of the college football season, as the Longhorns welcome No. 5 Georgia.

The news came out as ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit mentioned it while making an appearance on Thursday’s Pat McAfee Show.

Scheffler isn’t the only prominent golf figure to make a recent appearance on the show. Justin Thomas made an entrance in a souped-up golf cart complete with a roll bar before a Crimson Tide football game in 2019, then pulled an iron from the back and set up as if to hit a shot off the mulch right into the camera lens.

And in 2020, six-time Masters champion Jack Nicklaus joined the GameDay crew live via video to pick the winners of the week’s best college football games and the 2020 Masters.

Scottie Scheffler dishes on his Masters Champions Dinner menu

“I’m wondering if I should just have the same exact menu. It was pretty good.”

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

That’s the Scottie Scheffler approach to cooking up his menu for the Champions Dinner on Tuesday of Masters week —April 5th for those of you scoring at home.

It’s one of the traditions like none other during Masters week —the defending champion hosts a dinner at Augusta National’s clubhouse for all the past champions and not only picks the menu but picks up the check. It’s a tradition started by Ben Hogan in 1952.

When Scheffler won the 2023 Masters, his menu for the dinner featured cheeseburger sliders served “Scottie style,” firecracker shrimp, tortilla soup, Texas ribeye steak, or blackened redfish and then a warm chocolate chip skillet cookie with milk and ice cream for dessert.

During his appearance on Golf’s Subpar podcast, Scheffler, who won the Masters in April for the second time, was asked if he’d been giving any thought to his menu for the big night yet. Scheffler answered that he had.

“I’m wondering if I should just have the same exact menu,” he said. “It was pretty good. It’s all my favorite foods. I don’t know really what I could do differently. I think it would be kind of fun just to have the exact same food.”

If Scheffler repeats the same meal, he wouldn’t be the first to do so. He would be taking a page out of the Tiger Woods playbook. Tiger famously served cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, French fries and milkshakes in 1998, his first year as host of the dinner, but in 2003 for his third time calling the shots he repeated the menu of porterhouse steak, chicken and sushi from his 2002 menu.

Scheffler still has some time to reconsider but there’s no reason to mess with a menu that includes sliders “Scottie style” and how do you top the warm chocolate chip skillet cookie anyway?

Insinuating that Scheffler will win even more Green Jackets before his career is over, podcast co-host Drew Stoltz joked, “They’re going to get tired of having that exact same meal.”

Exclusive: Venue, date settled for Las Vegas match featuring McIlroy and Scheffler versus DeChambeau and Koepka

Billed as The Showdown, it will pit the PGA Tour’s two biggest stars against two standouts from LIV Golf.

The made-for-TV match pitting Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler against Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka finally has a home and a date.

Golfweek first reported plans for the event on Sept. 4, but the host course and date had not been agreed at that time. The match will take place at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas on Tuesday, Dec. 17. A formal announcement is expected later.

Billed as The Showdown, it will pit the PGA Tour’s two biggest stars against two standouts from LIV Golf and will air on TNT. Timing of the broadcast has not yet been confirmed, though multiple sources say it will conclude during prime time on the East Coast.

In a statement to Golfweek confirming the match last month, McIlroy said, “This isn’t just a contest between some of golf’s major champions; it’s an event designed to energize the fans. We’re all here to put on a great show and contribute to a goodwill event that brings the best together again.”

The Showdown showcases four multiple major-winners, including reigning Masters champion and dominant world No. 1 Scheffler. In June, DeChambeau edged McIlroy by a single shot in a dramatic finish to win his second U.S. Open Championship at Pinehurst No. 2. Two sources say the players will receive an appearance fee but will not compete for prize money. It’s understood that the 18-hole match will feature a mix of best-ball and alternate shot formats.

The Showdown is being created by Bryan Zuriff’s BZ Entertainment and EverWonder Studio. Zuriff was previously involved in The Match, a series of TV matches that launched in 2018 and which had featured McIlroy, DeChambeau and Koepka. EverWonder Studio was founded last year by former Sports Illustrated executive Ian Orefice and backed by Jeff Zucker’s RedBird IMI.

‘It moved’: Davis Riley recalls painful loss to Scottie Scheffler that maintained his integrity

Exactly 100 miles, most on U.S. 49, separate The Country Club of Jackson and Canebrake Country Club in Hattiesburg.

JACKSON, Miss. — Twenty-eight feet, two words and integrity stood between Davis Riley and a shot at the U.S. Junior Amateur championship in 2013.

It moved.

That’s what the then-16-year-old from Hattiesburg confessed to rules official Skip Giston and opponent Scottie Scheffler, the top-ranked golfer in the world today. His ball had rolled a bit after he addressed it while preparing to putt from just off the green on the final hole of match play.

Riley was penalized one stroke as a result. He conceded Scheffler’s short putt, putting the title of tournament champion on Scheffler by a 3 and 2 count.

It moved.

“It sure does feel like a lifetime ago,” Riley said Tuesday while he took a break from practicing putts at The Country Club of Jackson ahead of the Sanderson Farms Championship, which begins Thursday.

Riley tees off at 7:38 a.m. that day with Trey Mullinax, a fellow Alabama alum and Cameron Champ.

‘It was all in good fun’

Riley was reminded of that day in late May, when Scheffler had a front-row seat to the former’s victory in the final round of the Colonial National Invitational, aka the Charles Schwab Challenge, at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.

The two played together in the final pairing, with Riley winning his first individual PGA Tour event with a 14-under-par. Scheffler tied for second at 9 under.

“A video resurfaced,” Riley said with a grin. “It was pretty funny looking back on that.”

Does Scheffler ever talk trash about that day in 2013?

“Not really,” Riley said.

That responsibility belongs to another golfer from Texas who beat Riley for the 2014 Junior Amateur title, Will Zalatoris.

“I probably hear it a little bit more from him than from Scottie,” said Riley, who has qualified for the U.S Open three times and tied for 13th in the 2022 PGA Championship. “It’s all in good fun. That was a good time.”

Riley’s two second-place finishes did land him in elite company with Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth, though. They are the only players to appear in the junior amateur championship match twice.

‘This is the final hole to win the Masters’

Exactly 100 miles, most on U.S. 49, separate The Country Club of Jackson and Canebrake Country Club in Hattiesburg, according to Google Maps.

The latter is where Riley, 27, grew up in his family’s home that overlooked the ninth fairway.

Riley’s return to his home state this week, though, is not a return trip home.

This is about business. About trying to add the winner’s share of $1.368 million to his bank account. About putting to bed not making the cut the last three years here after tying for 39th in 2020.

Still, the memories of home always resurface when Riley is here.

One hundred miles away from Jackson is where, as a 4- or 5-year-old boy, Riley began to wear a 200-yard path from his house to the driving range. Where his golf aspirations were born. Where he won four individual state championships at Presbyterian Christian School before enrolling at Alabama.

He turned pro in 2019.

“Playing matches with buddies, you know, ‘This is the final hole to win the Masters,’ and things like that,” Riley said. “This is the place we always dreamed to be. I have to pinch myself every now and then, because I’m living out my dream.

“It’s a pretty special one.”