Jon Rahm has hinted at his shock that he was overwhelmed to the PGA Tour Participant of the 12 months prize by Scottie Scheffler.
Rahm had an unimaginable yr on the PGA Tour in 2018, taking residence 4 victories, together with his second Main title at The Masters. But Scheffler defeated the Spaniard to take the Participant of the 12 months award and turn out to be the primary winner to say the award twice in succession since Tiger Woods did it in 2005–07.
The American’s ball-striking numbers significantly outperformed these of some other participant, making him statistically the perfect participant of the yr. However whereas the World No.1 had his greatest victory on the Gamers, he was victorious simply twice general, with Rahm successful 4 titles.
Due to this, it was stunning that Rahm didn’t win the prize as chosen by PGA Tour gamers – and the 29-year-old has now spoken on the matter.
“Oh man, hear, Scottie had a improbable yr. I don’t wish to take away something from what he did, however traditionally, {hardware} is what’s gained mainly the participant of the yr,” he mentioned, showing on the Jim Rome Present.
“The yr Patrick Cantlay gained, I used to be mainly the extra constant participant, in 2021, had a serious, I believe I had 16 top-10s that yr and I absolutely understood why Patrick gained it.
“It’s simply possibly this yr due to his excessive degree of ball-striking, [the voters] determined to go in a unique path, however on the finish of the day, it’s effectively earned.”
Along with being voted Participant of the 12 months, Scheffler acquired the Byron Nelson Award for having the season’s finest scoring common; his 68.63 is the bottom scoring common ever by a participant aside from Tiger Woods, who has the highest six lowest averages in historical past.
“Clearly an honor to obtain the award,” Scheffler mentioned when he was handed the awards at The Sentry in Hawaii, which opened the 2024 season.
“Something that you just obtain voted on by your friends may be very particular to me and with the ability to go residence with this trophy two years in a row now may be very particular,” He added.
“I believe the physique of labor I put in final yr with the consistency and ending high a lot of the weeks that I performed I used to be very happy with that consistency.”
