Scottie Scheffler pulls away for Wanamaker Trophy
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Scottie Scheffler broke the Wanamaker Trophy after his PGA Championship, prompting 2020 winner Collin Morikawa to take to social media.
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Golf Digest on MSNScottie Scheffler’s select company, Brooks Koepka’s beer run and Nike’s brilliant adAnd this year, the only thing Scottie Scheffler locked up at the PGA Championship was that giant Wanamaker Trophy. I’d like to imagine his former inmates listening to the call on the prison radio while banging the bars of their jail cell with cups in solidarity.
The famed Wanamaker Trophy is the largest and heaviest in golf, but don’t think for one minute it can’t ever be lost – a fact legendary golfer Walter Hagen learned in the 1920s.
The PGA champ receives a replica of the Wanamaker Trophy, which is only slightly smaller than the 28-inch tall, 27-inch wide, 27-pound primary model. As for prize money, the PGA doesn’t reveal its purse until the championship begins. It was $18.5 million in 2024 with winner Xander Schauffele earning $3.3 million.
Scottie Scheffler has one hand on the Wanamaker Trophy as he will take a three-shot lead into the final round of the 2025 PGA Championship. After waiting out a weather delay this morning, the world No. 1 came out with a point to prove and carded a third consecutive round in the 60s.
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