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 on Wednesday, and Scheffler once again tops the ballot.
Scheffler, Tommy Fleetwood, Ben Griffin and Rory McIlroy are finalists for Player of the Year; Michael Brennan, Steven Fisk, William Mouw, Aldrich Potgieter and Karl Vilips are the nominees for Rookie of the Year.
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 straight from 1999-2003 and three straight from 2005-2007.)
Scheffler is the favorite again this year. McIlroy may 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.
Scheffler won six times in total, lifting trophies in the CJ Byron Nelson Cup, The PGA Championshipmemorial, Open ChampionshipBMW and Procore. His two majors brought his career total to four, and he is now just one US Open victory away from becoming the seventh player to win the career Grand Slam. In addition to the Masters, McIlroy won the Players and AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am; he also won the Irish Open, although that win does not count on 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 fall FedEx Cup standings.
Both awards are determined by a member vote, with ballots closing on December 12 and winners announced shortly thereafter.
Woods’ 11 Jack Nicklaus awards are the most ever. Scheffler and McIlroy both have three.
