Scottie Scheffler is going for the four-peat.
The PGA Tour released the finalists for its Player of the Year (Jack Nicklaus Award) and Rookie of the Year (Arnold Palmer Award) honors Wednesday, and Scheffler once again headlines the ballot.
Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Ben Griffin and Rory McIlroy are the finalists for Player of the Year; Michael Brennan, Steven Fisk, William Mouw, Aldrich Potgieter and Karl Vilips are the Rookie of the Year nominees.
Scheffler has won the last three Player of the Year awards, and when he won in 2024 he joined Tiger Woods as the only players to win in three consecutive years. (Tiger won five in a row from 1999-2003 and three in a row from 2005-2007.)
Scheffler is the favorite this year as well. McIlroy might have had the most important win of the season — exorcising his Augusta National demons and claiming the career Grand Slam — but Scheffler won two majors to McIlroy’s one.
Scheffler won six times total, hoisting trophies at The CJ Cup Byron Nelson, PGA Championship, Memorial, Open Championship, BMW and Procore. His two majors pushed his career total to four, and he’s now just a U.S. Open win away from becoming the seventh player to win the career Grand Slam. Besides the Masters, McIlroy won the Players and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am; he also won the Irish Open, although that victory doesn’t count toward his PGA Tour resume.
Griffin won three times in 2025. Tommy Fleetwood won once, claiming the Tour Championship for his long-awaited first PGA Tour victory.
All five Rookie of the Year finalists won once each in 2025. Potgieter was the only rookie to qualify for the FedEx Cup Playoffs and finished 56th in the FedEx Cup Fall standings.
Both awards are determined by a member vote, with ballots closing on Dec. 12 and the winners announced shortly after.
Woods’ 11 Jack Nicklaus Awards are the most ever. Scheffler and McIlroy both have three.
