Xander Schauffele won The Open on Sunday to claim half of the 2024 men’s majors. He snapped his winless major streak by capturing the PGA Championship at Valhalla, but he also played well in the other two he didn’t win, finishing eighth at the Masters and tied for seventh at the U.S. Open.
That impressive run was hard to keep up with, even for Scottie Scheffler, who has won six times this season. But only one of Scheffler’s victories (the Masters) came in a major. Scheffler tied for 8th at the PGA Championship — which was incredibly impressive given all that went on that week — and tied for 41st at the U.S. Open, his worst major finish in his last 10 starts. On Sunday, he tied for 7th at The Open.
Surprisingly, Schauffele and Scheffler were just two of 13 pros who qualified for and made the cut in every 2024 major. (You thought that number would be higher, didn’t you? Same.)
But out of that group, who had the best cumulative score in the majors? Bunkered’s Michael McEwan created this handy chart to do the dirty work for us.
Schauffele, Scheffler, Collin Morikawa and Shane Lowry were the only four players under par, and Schauffele was the only player to finish under par in every major. His 32-under total in the four majors blew away the competition — although winning the PGA Championship at 21 under pads the stats. Schauffele was 15 strokes better than Scheffler, who was 17 under in the four majors. Morikawa was 15 under and Lowry six under.
Patrick Cantlay, who is still without a major title, finished the year even par in major championship golf, which ranked fifth on this list.
Will Schauffele’s second major be enough to wrestle away PGA Tour Player of the Year honors from Scheffler later this year? We might need to see how the FedEx Cup Playoffs shake out first.
