It was at this very tournament a year ago, Scottie Scheffler made national headlines following his arrest.
A year later, the World No. 1 won his first PGA Championship at Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, North Carolina, trading in a mugshot and a jail cell for the famous Wanamaker Trophy.
He finished Sunday’s final round at 11-under par, five strokes ahead of Bryson DeChambeau, Davis Riley and Harris English.
Despite bogeying on the final hole, Scheffler celebrated by spiking his hat on the ground, embracing his caddie, Ted Scott, and then quickly found his wife, Meredith, and son in the crowd.
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.
