2025 PGA Championship: Scottie Scheffler dominates for third career major championship victory

The reality of it is flattering, even if it doesn’t sound that way to the untrained.

Scottie Scheffler has a habit of making Sundays at major championships quite boring and did so once again on Sunday at Quail Hollow during the PGA Championship. The world number one started the final round as a leader and in his usual fashion kept form and forced the field to chase him. It did not work. It did not even come close.

Scottie Scheffler is the 2025 PGA Champion. It is his third career major victory.

When the week’s action started at Quail Hollow most conversations centered around Scheffler, Masters Champion Rory McIlroy and defending U.S. Open Champion Bryson DeChambeau. Rory faded as the weekend went on and Bryson gave Sunday all he had, his fellow LIV golfer Jon Rahm also emptied the tank in trying to win a major for the first time in over two years, but in the end Scottie outlasted them all.

Scottie held a commanding lead for most of the back nine, but the day was over well before that. In winning the PGA he can now add it to his two green jackets and all sorts of other silverware he has picked up to this point on his young career, not to mention the gold medal at last summer’s Olympic Games.

It was somewhat fair to wonder if Scheffler was simply built to dominate Augusta given that he has two Masters wins as noted. As Rory did by earning his own green jacket, Scottie put an end to a lot of conversations by lifting the Wanamaker Trophy. He is the world’s top player for a reason and continues to demonstrate it. There is no reason to believe we are not seeing the first few of what could be double-digit major championships when he has called the game of professional golf a day.

As far as the overall golf season is concerned we have now seen the top players for each side of the Ryder Cup, Rory and Scottie, take home a major this season. Interestingly, Scottie marked the 10th consecutive American to take home the PGA as the last international player to do so was Jason Day all the way back in 2015. The last European to win the event was actually Rory in 2014.

In winning by such a sizable margin, Scottie entered pretty rarified air. The CBS broadcast noted as he took the tee at 18 that he became the first player since 1983 to win each of his first 3 major victories by 3+ strokes. He joined Seve Ballesteros on that list.

Golf belongs to Scottie for the most part right now. With all of the talk that this season has brought of grand slams it is completely fair to wonder if or rather when Scottie will follow Rory’s footsteps into that hallowed club. He is halfway there.

When will he get the next leg? 2025? 2026?

Nothing is impossible for Scottie Scheffler.