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2023–2024 AMA Arenacross Championship Schedule

Indoor dirt bike racing series to host 14 rounds in nine states.

A little over a month before the 2024 AMA Supercross series kicks off, a similar form of racing in tighter confines has a tour of its own starting, and that’s AMA Arenacross. Beginning on the first day of December 2023, the 14-round championship visits nine different states across the nation as westerly as Las Vegas, Nevada, and as far east as Salem, Virginia. Kyle Peters will return to the series with the Phoenix Racing Honda team in search of achieving his fifth consecutive title. Scroll down to see the 2023–2024 AMA Arenacross Championship schedule, and for more information about the series, visit arenacrossusa.com .

2023–2024 AMA Arenacross Championship Series Schedule

2023-24 AMA Arenacross Schedule (Updated)

AMA Arenacross has announced its 2023-2024 schedule. The 14-round series kicks off with the first two rounds in Boise on December 1 and 2.

2023-24 AMA Arenacross Schedule

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AMA Arenacross Announces 2023-2024 Championship Schedule!

• September 27, 2023

AMA Arenacross is set to bring its 14 round championship nationwide starting December 1, 2023 in Boise, Idaho at the Ford Idaho Center . Along with making its debut in exciting new destinations like Daytona Beach during Bike Week, the 2023 – 2024 AMA Arenacross Championship revisits familiar stops on the circuit like Guthrie, Oklahoma – where the 2024 Arenacross Amateur National Champions will be crowned. 

The series will conclude with a spectacular finale at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on March 29th, 2024.

Don’t miss out on the heart-pounding action and excitement as the AMA Arenacross Championship returns to thrill fans across the nation in the 2023-2024 season. Join us for an unforgettable experience that will leave you on the edge of your seat!

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The Arenacross Tour

The Arenacross Tour is back for 2023! 

Europe’s leading Indoor Freestyle Motocross and Race Show returns for a five-round Tour of the UK in January and February 2023.  

Arenacross is a show like no other. It’s a high-octane mix of indoor Motocross racing and Freestyle Motocross (FMX) badness and is packed to the rafters with all-round family fun and frenzied entertainment. It’s guaranteed to keep you on your feet yelling and hollering for more! 

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2023 Arenacross UK tour – Full class and rider lists

The Arenacross Tour presented by Fix Auto UK is gearing up to welcome packed grids across all classes for its 2023 British Arenacross Championship.

Classes will include:

• The Pro Class
• Pro AM British Championship (16yrs+)
• Futures British Championship (16 – 21yrs)
• Supermini British Championship (12 – 15yrs)
• 65 Youth British Championship (7-10 yrs)
• E5 Electric British Championship.

In the new-for-23 Futures class, aimed at nurturing young talent, just 12 riders and four wildcards made the grade, while in the over-subscribed ProAm British Championship – which attracted the greatest interest of all time … 34 contestants, plus wildcards, were selected,

Local riders will line up for the innovative KTM, GASGAS and Husqvarna Motorcycles-backed all-electric AX-E5 Championship at the arenas in Belfast, Aberdeen and Birmingham. The final Arenacross round at London will host the first-ever AX-E5 Final with the top four riders from each of the qualifying rounds taking to the start line.

This group will feature the very youngest riders of the entire tour with young Ollie Denvir from Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, Ollie Hain from St Andrews and Oliver Wilson from Solihull representing their hometowns in their local venues. Other than an uncanny similarity in first names … the youngsters are also all a tender six years of age.

The Supermini, Futures and ProAm classes will be boosted with a spot of girl power when Olivia Reynolds, Beanie Reece and Anya Colley get ready to prove themselves against their male counterparts. They’ll be intent on showing them their rear wheels as they tackle the challenging Arenacross circuits. Long-standing Arenacross followers will also notice several familiar names in the rider line-up across these classes as lads such as Austin Beasty, Isaac Ash, Lewis Spratt, Charley Irwin and Josh Greedy move up through the ranks from previous years.

With the confirmation of all classes, the 2023 Arenacross Tour presented by Fix Auto UK is poised to deliver the best-ever Arenacross championship, with race-win-hungry competitors from six-year-old novices right the way through to the ‘best of British’ Pros.

The 2023 Arenacross Tour:

Round 1: Friday 20th January – SSE Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland Round 2: Saturday 21st January – SSE Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland Round 3: Saturday 28th January – P&J Live, Aberdeen, Scotland Round 4: Sunday 29th January – P&J Live, Aberdeen, Scotland Round 5: Saturday 4th February – The Resorts World Arena, Birmingham NEC, England Round 6: Saturday 18th February – The OVO Arena, Wembley, England.

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FUS Geartec Husqvarna; Adam Chatfield and Jake Preston

TLD GasGas; Jack Brunell and Jordan Booker

Apico Factory Racing; Martin Barr and ‘rider to be announced’

Yamaha Ireland; Jason Meara and James Mackrel

AJP Geartec Racing; Luke Burton and Jayden Ashwell

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The Tour originally included The AO Arena in Manchester on the calendar, but when problems arose with the city centre venue, Bates quickly selected Birmingham and added the iconic arena at Wembley for the tour finale.

“We received the upsetting news that, just a few hours after announcing our new Arenacross tour, The AO Arena in Manchester had been forced to reschedule the event to a much later date in the year – a date that couldn’t work for the tour,” said Bates.

“We worked over the weekend to find a solution and can’t thank the Resorts World Arena and OVO Wembley Arena teams enough for their round-the-clock efforts to move their busy entertainment schedule and make way for two incredible and popular opportunities for Arenacross to come back with a bang.”

The 2023 series is set to up the ante and get creative with significantly restyled race classes covering a breadth of age groups and machine capacities. An all-new format will mean that Pro riders will be restricted to riding 250cc machines only.

A hugely-important ‘Future’ class will pave the way for up-coming youth stars on 125s to gain experience and finetune their race skills as they progress through their racing careers. For the younger riders who just love being part of the whole Arenacross scene, there’ll be an 85cc class and an All-electric category, replacing the AX65s.

An exclusive Pre-sale ticket offer, with a 20% discount, will go live on Wednesday the 5th of October and close at midnight on Sunday the 9th of October.

To take advantage of the discount, you need to register now at www.arenacrossuk.com for advanced notification and discount codes.

The 2023 Arenacross Tour:

Round 1: Friday 20th January – SSE Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland Round 2: Saturday 21st January – SSE Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland Round 3: Saturday 28th January – P&J Live, Aberdeen, Scotland Round 4: Sunday 29th January – P&J Live, Aberdeen, Scotland Round 5: Saturday 4th February – The Resorts World Arena, Birmingham NEC, England Round 6: Saturday 18th February – The OVO Arena, Wembley, England

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2023 arenacross uk dates and venues.

By Team TMX on 23rd Sep 22

Arenacross returns in 2023 with breathtaking, edge-of-your-seat, indoor motocross racing and freestyle shows in a three-venue tour across the UK.

After a two-year absence, the UK Arenacross Tour is back for its ninth edition and we've got the dates and venues, plus the chance to score discounted tickets.

https://www.tmxnews.co.uk/news/arenacross/ax/2023-arenacross-adds-venues-for-uk-tour/

Whether you're looking for an exciting family night out or are a full-on petrolhead craving the thrill of indoor motocross, the Arenacross Tour UK is the spectacular full-throttle thrills and spills experience that'll keep you on the edge of your seat!

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Tour Championship purse, prize money: Sahith Theegala’s self-imposed penalty cost him $2.5 million at East Lake

Sahith theegala called himself for a two-shot penalty on saturday that nobody, not even the cameras, noticed.

The PGA Tour’s season is officially over, and Scottie Scheffler is walking away from East Lake Golf Club with the FedEx Cup and a massive $25 million paycheck .

Scheffler capped his historic season with a win at the Tour Championship on Sunday afternoon in Atlanta. That marked his seventh victory of the year and his first ever FedEx Cup title. It also nearly doubled his total earnings in 2024, which was already a Tour record, and ended a dominant season that the PGA Tour hasn't seen since Tiger Woods nearly two decades ago.

While the elevated prize pool this week made it significant even for the last golfer in the field, who still walked away with more than $500,000, the most notable part of the payouts at East Lake had to do with Sahith Theegala and his self-imposed two-shot penalty . With how he finished, it’s among one of the more costly penalties in recent golf history.

Sahith Theegala’s penalty costs him $2.5 million

Theegala called himself out for a penalty on Saturday afternoon after he said he grounded his club in a fairway bunker on the third hole at East Lake. But nobody, not even the cameras, noticed that Theegala had done anything wrong in the moment.

Theegala, after hitting his approach shot out of the bunker, said he noticed a small amount of sand move on his backswing. While it wasn’t noticeable to anybody but him, Theegala immediately called over playing partner Xander Schauffel and the rules official. Eventually, he was hit with a two-shot penalty and ended up making a double bogey on the hole.

Sahith Theegala self-reported a two-stroke penalty for touching the sand with his club during his backswing. He currently moves from -13 to -11, but will have the opportunity to review the penalty with a rules official following his round. pic.twitter.com/rLAgGJGZ5c — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 31, 2024

“I wouldn’t be able to sleep [if I didn’t call the penalty],” he said after the third round.

Despite the double, Theegala made seven birdies on his back nine and five straight to close out his day. That dropped him to 17-under on the week, which moved him into solo third.

Then on Sunday, Theegala made four birdies on his front nine and finished with a 7-under 64 thanks largely to a pair of birdies to close out his day. That moved him to 24-under on the week, and gave him a solo third finish. While that earned him a $7.5 million paycheck, he would have tied with Collin Morikawa in second without his penalty. That would have sent him home with $10 million instead.

So in total, his self-imposed penalty cost him $2.5 million.

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Theegala won for the first time on Tour last season at the Fortinet Championship. He picked up his eighth top-10 finish this season on Sunday afternoon, and he earned a spot on the U.S. Presidents Cup team later this month.

While his penalty ended up costing him several million, Theegala walked away with a clean conscience — and likely plenty of new fans.

Tour Championship purse, prize money

Here’s a look at the full payouts for Scheffler, Theegala and the rest of the 30-man field this week at the Tour Championship.

1. Scottie Scheffler — $25 million

2. Collin Morikawa — $12.5 million

3. Sahith Theegala — $7.5 million

T4. Russell Henley, Adam Scott, Xander Schauffele — $4.83 million

7. Sungjae Im — $2.75 million

8. Wyndham Clark — $2.25 million

T9. Rory McIlroy, Hideki Matsuyama, Shane Lowry — $1.608 million

T12. Viktor Hovland, Sam Burns — $1 million

T14. Taylor Pendrith, Justin Thomas — $905,000

16. Ludvig Åberg — $795,000

T17. Matthieu Pavon, Patrick Cantlay, Robert MacIntyre — $755,000

20. Tommy Fleetwood — $715,000

T21. Keegan Bradley, Ben An — $660,000

T23. Billy Horschel, Aaron Rai, Tony Finau — $615,000

26. Akshay Bhatia — $590,000

T27. Chris Kirk, Sepp Straka — $575,000

T29. Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Tom Hoge — $555,000

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Wolter and sulek-schubert win in naklo nad notecia.

Felix Wolter at the Czapiewski Memorial (© Organisers)

Germany’s Felix Wolter and Poland’s Adrianna Sulek-Schubert lived up to expectations as the pre-event favourites for the Wiesław Czapiewski Memorial as they claimed victories at the World Athletics Combined Events Tour Gold meeting in the Polish town of Naklo nad Notecia on Sunday (1).

Wolter scored a meeting record of 8068 after being pushed all the way by Japan’s Yuma Maruyama and Estonia’s Risto Lillemets, both of whom also scored in excess of 8000 points.

Sulek-Schubert, meanwhile, retained her title from 2022 with 6007 to win comfortably from Ukraine’s Yuliya Loban.

Wolter led from the outset, clocking 10.63 in the 100m and leaping 7.64m in the long jump, the best marks of the day for those disciplines. His opponents made a dent on his lead in the shot put as the German managed 13.49m while Zsombor Galpal topped the event with 15.09m.

A 1.94m leap in the high jump kept Wolter in the lead ahead of Czechia’s Vilem Strasky and Maruyama, then he ended the first day with a 48.39 victory in the 400m to increase his lead to 120 points.

Wolter started the second day with a 14.52 run in the 110m hurdles, an event in which Lorenzo Naidon (14.12) and Maruyama (14.20) produced the fastest times.

Lithuania’s Edgaras Benkunskas, the strongest thrower in the field, topped the discus with a PB of 49.89m, while Wolter managed 44.06m. Lillemets then climbed up the leader board into fifth after clearing 5.00m in the pole vault with Wolter – still the overall leader – vaulting 4.70m and Maruyama managing 4.80m.

Benkunskas, Lillemets and Maruyama all threw beyond 60 metres in the javelin to make a small dent on Wolter’s lead. But his 56.43m throw kept him in pole position going into the 1500m.

Naidon was the fastest in the final discipline (4:31.99) and he was closely followed by Lillemets (4:32.24) and Maruyama (4:36.59) but Wolter did enough to hold on to his lead (4:43.61), ending with a score of 8068.

Maruyama scored 8021 for second place, just ahead of Lillemets (8012).

Like Wolter, Sulek-Schubert led the heptathlon from start to finish.

Adrianna Sulek-Schubert at the Czapiewski Memorial (© Organisers)

The European indoor silver medallist opened with a 13.44 victory in the 100m hurdles and then cleared 1.77m, the best of the day, in the high jump.

Yuliya Loban produced the best throw in the shot put, 14.86m, but Sulek-Schubert’s 13.75m kept the Pole in the lead. Sulek-Schubert then increased her leading margin to 166 points at the end of the first day thanks to a 24.28 victory in the 200m.

Sulek-Schubert and Loban produced the exact same mark in the long jump, 5.79m, then the Ukrainian out-threw Sulek-Schubert in the javelin by almost five metres, 42.22m to 37.81m, but it wasn’t enough to displace the leader.

A 2:16.95 run in the 800m sealed the victory for Sulek-Schubert, giving her a winning score of 6007. Loban was second with 5861.

Scottie Scheffler’s incredible season gets a fitting ending

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ATLANTA – There was only one acceptable outcome for Scottie Scheffler at the TOUR Championship. That made the FedExCup Playoffs finale one of the most stressful weeks of the year.

In the previous two seasons, Scheffler had relinquished the unique, two-stroke advantage that the TOUR Championship affords the FedExCup leader. Though he was the PGA TOUR Player of the Year in both 2022 and 2023 – the first player since Tiger Woods to win the award in consecutive years – he couldn’t lay claim to the TOUR’s season-long prize.

“It definitely, I think, leaves a bad taste in your mouth at the end of the year, especially when I start with the lead,” Scheffler said about his unsuccessful attempts to win the FedExCup.

He was determined to make this time different. He is too competitive and had worked too hard to settle for anything less. There was no other way to end an incredible season where he won everything from a green jacket to a gold medal.

Behind the scenes after Scottie Scheffler’s TOUR Championship win

“In the back of your head you know it’s going to come down to this,” Scheffler said, “and you have to have a great week.”

This time, he did. But he had to show one more time what separates him from his peers before he could finally lift the FedExCup for the first time.

It came in the middle of a final round that once seemed like little more than a formality. Scheffler had built a seven-shot lead with just 16 holes remaining. The lead dwindled to two, though, after his sand shot on the eighth hole caught a portion of the clubface that only amateurs find.

Scottie Scheffler suffers back-to-back bogeys after shank at TOUR Championship

His shank, and the resulting bogey, allowed Collin Morikawa to pull within two shots. That’s when Scheffler’s caddie, Ted Scott, stepped in with a simple reminder.

“Just remember who you are,” Scott said. “You’re Scottie Scheffler.”

Scheffler responded by striping a 4-iron tee shot to within 3 feet of the ninth hole, the first of three consecutive birdies that put him five ahead. An eagle at the 14th hole, where Scheffler hit a 7-iron to 16 feet, made the final four holes the coronation that Scheffler’s season deserved.

Afterward, Scott had a message for his boss: “That’s the longest lead anyone has ever slept on.”

“It’s like eight months, knowing you’re going to have a lead here,” Scott explained. “It’s a tremendous amount of pressure, and he handled it super well.”

Players reflect on Scottie Scheffler’s season

Scheffler started the week at 10-under par and then shot 20-under (65-66-66-67, 264) on the following 72 holes. His total of 30-under par was four strokes better than Collin Morikawa, who shot the week’s low 72-hole score (66-63-67-66, 262). Sahith Theegala finished third at 24 under; he was the only other player within 10 shots of Scheffler.

Scheffler led the field in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee (+3.4), Greens in Regulation (54 of 72) and Driving Distance (338.6 yards). He was second in Driving Accuracy (37 of 56 fairways) and third in Strokes Gained: Putting (+4.1). It was another display of Scheffler’s unmatched ballstriking ability, and an opportunity to showcase the improved putting that was key to his dominant season.

“Last year I was playing good golf and I wasn't able to make the key putts at the right time, and this year I was,” Scheffler said. “That's really just the difference.”

Scheffler may have been voted the PGA TOUR’s top player in each of the previous two years, but his seven wins in 2024 were more than the previous two years combined. His 13 wins since February 2022 are more than double any other player. Including his Olympic gold medal, which doesn’t count as an official PGA TOUR win, he was victorious eight times in 2024 alone.

He will be the reigning FedExCup champion for the next 12 months, and it would likely take at least that long to supplant him from atop the world ranking.

“I'm proud of the results,” he said. “It's something I try not to focus too much on, but at the end of the day, being able to win tournaments is a great feeling, and it's what we work towards, and to be able to have as many wins as I have this year is really special.”

The rise of Scottie Scheffler

Scheffler won on courses both historic and modern, short and long, wide and narrow. From the expansive canvas of Augusta National to the cozy confines of Harbour Town. Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer could not stop Scheffler with the thick rough and firm greens that are the trademarks of their tournaments, nor could Pete Dye and his penal creations.

Scheffler held a magic wand for his first win, the mallet putter that he debuted that week, and his baby boy for the eighth and final victory of 2024. Little Bennett Scheffler has only been around since May but already has seen his father hoist four trophies. He still may fit inside the FedExCup.

It was a year that included a birth and an arrest, and he was victorious through a protest and an injury that almost forced him out of THE PLAYERS. But the trophies remained the biggest story. Through it all, he was unapologetically himself, sticking to the same philosophy that got him this far.

He relies on a simplicity that belies his achievements. Golf is supposed to be a complex game, but Scheffler sticks to the same fundamentals that his swing coach, Randy Smith, has been emphasizing since Scottie was a kid.

“Simple sometimes works best,” Smith said. It did this year.

Scottie Scheffler's impressive mentality and game

Warming up before the third round of the TOUR Championship, he was the only player on the practice range without a launch monitor sitting next to him. He uses a practice club with the same instructional grip that is often given to beginners, and he inspects the clubface, ensuring it’s square, before each practice shot. He often looks at his feet on the course, trying to focus on only his next step.

“I’ve always taken golf very seriously,” he once said. “I think that’s why I try to focus so much on the present, just staying present.”

The final week of the FedExCup Playoffs is a challenge to that mindset, though, because its format can almost present a premature coronation. The two-shot advantage that the FedExCup leader holds once he sets foot on the property is a reflection of all he’s accomplished during the season. There’s the temptation for reflection even though the final standings are still four rounds from being determined. There’s also a TOUR player’s inherent pride, which makes losing after being given a lead unacceptable.

“I should win the tournament if I'm starting ahead of people. That's how I feel,” Scheffler said. “So maybe the last couple years I've put too much pressure on myself to perform … but this year I did a good job of just staying in it mentally and keeping my head down.”

Scheffler is intensely competitive, whether at home in Dallas, where he gives 20 strokes to the mid-handicap members at Royal Oaks, or on the PGA TOUR. That’s why winning the FedExCup was so important to him. He didn’t want another season where there was a dichotomy between the vote of his peers for Player of the Year and the final scoreboard.

There is a finality to the TOUR Championship that adds significance. With the pursuit of the FedExCup complete, there is space to ruminate on the result. There is no next tournament or venue to focus on. That’s what made his loss here two years ago so difficult. He described it as “pretty challenging … to handle” and said he was “very sad” after losing a six-shot lead to Rory McIlroy in the final round.

Sadness is not an emotion that is readily confessed to by professional athletes, who hope to convey an intimidating air, but the 2022 TOUR Championship represented a disappointing end to an otherwise impeccable season that rapidly changed the course of Scheffler’s career. He won four times in a six-week span, earning both his first PGA TOUR title and his first major in the process. He rapidly ascended to world No. 1, as well. Losing the TOUR Championship may have been the only thing that didn’t go his way.

“I didn’t expect things to finish that way,” he said.

Scheffler won twice last year, including his first PLAYERS, to return to East Lake as the No. 1 seed. He broke par in just one round at the TOUR Championship, however.

Scheffler was still No. 1 when this year began, but he also was amid a winless drought that stretched to 51 weeks before he won the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard.

That duration was defined by his struggles on the greens. It was a frustrating span because his putting kept him from capitalizing on his peerless ball-striking, and it was a shortcoming that was the source of constant questions. It led to the most scrutiny he’d faced in his reign as the game’s top player.

Scheffler had been experimenting behind the scenes with new putters, however, and had enlisted putting coach Phil Kenyon the previous fall. It was at Bay Hill that Scheffler debuted the mallet putter that he would use in each of his eight wins this year.

“I felt like I was kind of gradually building towards something,” he said.

He committed to relying on the same athleticism that set him apart on long shots instead of obsessing over mechanics. He also ceased seeking perfection on the greens.

He won by five strokes at Bay Hill while finishing fifth in Strokes Gained: Putting (he led the field in that metric in the final round). It was the start of a five-tournament stretch where he won four times, and he was one 6-footer in Houston from potentially sweeping them all.

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A week after his win at Bay Hill, he became the first player to win back-to-back PLAYERS titles despite a neck injury that nearly forced him to withdraw. Then he won a second Masters with an exquisite display of ball control on a blustery week at Augusta National. By winning the following week, he became the first player since Bernhard Langer in 1985 to win at Augusta National and Harbour Town in consecutive weeks.

It was reminiscent of Scheffler’s breakout season in 2022 when he won four times in six starts – except this time, he just kept going. He was away for a month for the birth of his first child, then returned to a chaotic week at the PGA Championship. He still finished in the top 10 at Valhalla, then had two wins (and a runner-up) in his next four starts. Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournament presented by Workday was Scheffler’s first win as a father. At the Travelers Championship, he beat Tom Kim in a playoff after protesters stormed the 72nd green.

The Olympics may not count towards his PGA TOUR win total this season, but it was among his most impressive feats of the year. His Sunday 62 included a 29 on his final nine to make up a large deficit and win the gold medal.

Scheffler leads the TOUR in Strokes Gained: Approach the Green for the second consecutive year, and he is on pace to lead in Greens in Regulation for the third straight season. He is gaining nearly 2.5 strokes per round from tee-to-green, almost a shot per round better than Xander Schauffele, who ranks second in that statistic. And his putting is now a tick above average (+0.03 strokes gained per round), which is all he needs.

It was an incredible season that got the ending it deserved. Scottie Scheffler is finally a FedExCup champion.

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Sean Martin is a senior editor for the PGA TOUR. He is a 2004 graduate of Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo. Attending a small school gave him a heart for the underdog, which is why he enjoys telling stories of golf's lesser-known players. Follow Sean Martin on Twitter .

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ATLANTA — Scottie Scheffler capped off the biggest year in golf in nearly two decades by winning the sport’s biggest prize.

Challenged briefly Sunday in the Tour Championship, Scheffler responded with three straight birdies to make winning look as inevitable as it has seemed all year. He closed with a 4-under 67 for a four-shot victory over Collin Morikawa to capture the FedEx Cup and its $25 million prize, the richest in golf.

That pushed his season earnings, including bonuses, to just under $62.3 million.

It was the greatest year since Tiger Woods won eight times in 2006, including six in a row and two majors, all while dealing with the death of his father. Scheffler’s eight wins included the Masters, The Players Championship, an Olympic gold medal and the Tour Championship that enabled him to finally claim the FedEx Cup.

His seven PGA Tour titles are the most since Woods in 2007.

“We’ll look back on 2024 and it’s obviously one of the best individual years that a player has had for a long time,” Rory McIlroy said.

Scheffler took the drama out of the final hour — four of his wins this year were by three shots or more — and finally let out a “WOOO!!” as he stepped inside to sign his card. He hoisted two big trophies, the silver FedEx Cup and his 4-month-old son, Bennett.

The birth of his first child, his bizarre arrest in Louisville, Kentucky, before the second round of the PGA Championship, another Masters green jacket, Olympic gold. This was one season not soon to be forgotten by Scheffler or any other golf fan.

“This is a challenging week,” Scheffler said at the trophy ceremony. “I’m exhausted right now.”

This was the third straight year Scheffler came to East Lake as the top seed, meaning he started the tournament at 10-under par with a two-shot lead. Two years ago, he lost a six-shot lead in the final round to McIlroy.

Scheffler led by at least five shots after each round. But there was a harrowing moment as storm clouds began to threaten. He made two straight bogeys, the second one on a pure shank from a bunker on the reachable par-4 eighth hole. Morikawa made birdie, and the seven-shot deficit he faced after two holes was down to a mere two shots with 10 holes to play.

And then it was over.

Scheffler hit 4-iron to 5 feet on the par-3 ninth for birdie. He hit wedge to 3 feet on No. 10 for birdie, and then swirled in a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-3 11th.

“He’s not going to just starting making bogeys after that,” Morikawa said of the Scheffler shank. “He’s going to do the opposite and he’s going to start hitting golf shots. It almost brought his focus back in for a half second, and that’s something you can’t teach.”

Just like that, his lead was back to five shots. And when he holed a 15-foot eagle putt on the 14th hole, it was a matter of getting to the finish line.

Scheffler referred to the FedEx Cup as a season-long race being “silly” because everything came down to the final week at East Lake. There was no doubting the FedEx Cup got a most appropriate champion.

Scheffler only finished out of the top 10 three times in his 19 starts. He had a pair of runner-up finishes to go along with seven PGA Tour titles.

“He’s the guy to beat every single week,” Justin Thomas said. “I don’t think people understand how hard that is to do, when you’re expected to win, when you’re the favorite to win, when every single thing you’re doing is being looked at — good and bad — on the golf course, and how hard it is to get in your own little zone and own little world and truly just quiet the noise.”

Morikawa, the No. 7 seed who started the tournament six shots behind, closed with a 66 and had the lowest score of the Tour Championship at 22-under 262. He won $12.5 million for finishing second in the FedEx Cup.

“Six shots behind was hard against the best player in the world,” Morikawa said. “I tried.”

Sahith Theegala, who called a two-shot penalty on himself Saturday for possibly brushing a small amount of sand on a bunker shot, closed with a 64 and finished third. He finished two shots behind Morikawa and earned a $7.5 million bonus for third place.

Adam Scott, who tied for fourth, turned pro during the peak of Woods in 2000 and did not shy away from the comparisons Scheffler has created because of his consistent level of contending.

“I think it is on par with those great years of Tiger’s,” Scott said. “I think it’s very hard today for anyone to separate themselves as much as Scottie has. I don’t think we’ve seen that in a long time. I think it’s harder to do it today.”

And to think it was just over five months ago when Scheffler was questioned about his putting, and he was coming up on a full year since his last PGA Tour title (he won the unofficial Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas).

His season earnings of $29,228,356 represented about 9.2% of the total purse from tournaments he played. Woods won about 11.6% of the total prize money in tournaments he played during 2000, still regarded as one of the great seasons ever.

The $25 million FedEx Cup prize is unofficial, as is the $8 million he received from the “Comcast Business Top 10” for leading the regular season.

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Scottie Scheffler's historic 2024: FedExCup win follows fatherhood, arrest, Olympic gold and PGA Tour dominance

Scottie Scheffler became the first player to win The Players, The Masters and the FedExCup in the same season; world No 1 claimed a four-shot victory at the Tour Championship and earned over $62m - including bonuses - during his 2024 PGA Tour campaign

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Scottie Scheffler said he had "lived almost a full lifetime this one year" after securing FedExCup victory, capping off a 'nuts' season - both on and off the golf course – for the world No 1.

Scheffler closed out a four-stroke victory at the season-ending Tour Championship, where he never relinquished top spot at any point during the four days and became the first player since Tiger Woods in 2007 to register seven or more victories in a year on the PGA Tour.

It completes a remarkable few months for Scheffler, who became a father for the first time shortly after winning The Masters for a second time in three years, was arrested ahead of his second round at the PGA Championship in May and also won Olympic gold in Paris.

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"If you can describe it in words, more power to you, because I don't think I can," Scheffler told reporters as he reflected on his 2024 efforts, following his Tour Championship win. "It has been a long year.

"I think emotionally right now I'm pretty drained. It has been a very eventful year but it's been really fun. You had the one weird spot there at Valhalla (the PGA Championship arrest), but everything else has been pretty special."

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Scheffler had topped the FedExCup standings since winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March, then added further victories the The Players, The Masters, RBC Heritage, Memorial Tournament and Travelers Championship during the regular season.

The 28-year-old American earned an $8m bonus for leading the Comcast Business Tour Top 10 heading into the FedExCup Playoffs, where he claimed $25m for his Tour Championship victory to take his season earnings - including bonuses - to a staggering $62,228,357 (£47.4m).

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"I felt like I was kind of gradually building towards something," Scheffler said. "I had some decent starts to the year. I had a couple top 10s to start and I was close to winning in Phoenix. Then overall I was playing really solid, so I knew I was close.

"I made some putts this year when I really needed to, and that's why I'm sitting here with a lot of wins instead of a few. Last year I was playing good golf and I wasn't able to make the key putts at the right time, and this year I was. That's really just the difference.

"I'm proud of the results. It's something I try not to focus too much on, but at the end of the day, being able to win tournaments is a great feeling, and it's what we work towards, and to be able to have as many wins as I have this year is really special."

Scheffler added: "I feel like I've lived almost a full lifetime in this one year. It has been nuts. I think it just always comes back to my faith. I think that's the thing that just keeps me grounded, keeps me in the right frame of mind."

How Scheffler keeps his focus

Scheffler took a two-shot lead into the Tour Championship and was seven ahead during the early stages of the final round, before recovering from seeing his advantage cut to two strokes by playing his next six holes in five under to reclaim control of the tournament.

"Just nothing fazes him," said Collin Morikawa, who played alongside Scheffler for the final three rounds at East Lake. "Whether I was close in gaining some ground or he was gaining ground, it didn't change how he walked or how he played or how he went through every shot.

"I think his mental game is a lot stronger than a lot of people know. It's amazing what he's been able to do for this entire season and honestly this past three years now. It's been really cool to watch him."

Scheffler had previously squandered a six-shot advantage to McIlroy on the final day of the 2022 Tour Championship, although his latest win is the third event in a row and eighth time in 14 attempts on the PGA Tour that he has converted a 54-hole lead into a victory.

"Just think how well he plays when he's the guy to beat every single week," former FedExCup champion Justin Thomas said. "I don't think people understand how hard that is to do.

"When you're expected to win, when you're the favourite to win, when every single thing you're doing is being looked at, good and bad, on the golf course, and how hard it is to get in your own little zone and own little world and truly just quiet the noise.

"It's something that is just as much of a skill as being able to hit a driver in the fairway or an iron on-line. He's clearly figured that out very well. All Scottie wants to do is just play the best he can and win as many tournaments as possible, and he's doing a pretty good job of that."

Consistency key for Scheffler?

Scheffler has been the best player in the world from tee-to-green, with his 2023 total the best seen since Woods in 2006 and his 2.456 strokes gained in that metric last season nearly a stroke better than any other player on the PGA Tour.

Only inconsistency on the greens prevented him from being a more prolific winner during the second half of 2023 and the early part of this year, before a switch to a mallet-style putter in March helped add another element to Scheffler's game.

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"It just seems like he's basically doing what he did last year, just putting probably a little bit more consistently," former FedExCup champion Viktor Hovland said. "When you hit it as good as he does every single week and you start making some putts, you're going to be very difficult to beat."

The switch of putter was initially suggested by Rory McIlroy earlier in the season, with the four-time major winner impressed by Scheffler's low scoring and ability to limit mistakes.

"The one thing I've always admired about Scottie is the amount of bogey-free rounds he shoots," McIlroy said. "You just go back over the last two, three years and you look at how many rounds that he'll shoot like four under par, no bogeys.

"It doesn't look spectacular at all, but it's just so solid. He doesn't really put himself out of position. When you don't make a ton of bogeys, the field has got to do something really special to keep up."

A Tiger-esque season from Scheffler?

Scheffler has been quick to play down comparisons with Woods at multiple points this season, but his sustained brilliance has produced numbers and consistency not seen since the 15-time major champion in his prime.

On whether Scheffler's 2024 performance is the best seen since Woods, former world No 1 Adam Scott said: "I think that's fair. I think all the stats back that up. I think that the results back it up. It has been pretty incredible.

"I think it is on par with those great years of Tiger's. It's very hard today for anyone to separate themselves as much as Scottie has. I don't think we've seen that in a long time."

Scheffler's FedExCup success came after entering the Tour Championship top of the standings for the third consecutive year, with his 13 PGA Tour wins to date coming in just over a two-and-a-half-year period.

"I think by the definition of dominance, I think that's literally where he's sitting," said Xander Schauffele, who started the Tour Championship as his closest challenger for FedExCup victory after two major victories in 2024.

"Since I've been out [on the PGA Tour], I think Dustin [Johnson] had a run, Brooks [Koepka] had a run, Jon [Rahm] had a run, Rory [McIlroy] had a run. But they were kind of punching back and forth between one, two and three.

"Scottie has been at the tip-top of the mountain for two full years now it seems."

Woods' dominance lasted a generation. Scheffler still has some way to go if he's going to match those efforts, but he's on the right trajectory to continue his dominance for many seasons to come.

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