Best cumulative score across all 4 majors this year? There was a loud explosion
No one played better golf in the majors in 2024 than Xander Schauffele and Scottie Scheffler.
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Xander Schauffele won The Open on Sunday to claim half of the 2024 men's majors. He snapped his major tournament winless streak by capturing the PGA Championship at Valhalla, but also played well in his two other non-wins, finishing eighth at the Masters and tied for seventh at the US Open.
That incredible run was hard to match, even for Scottie Scheffler, who has won six times this season. But only one of Scheffler's victories (the Masters) came in a major. Scheffler tied for 8th at the PGA Championship – which was impressive considering everything that happened that week – and tied for 41st at the US Open, his worst finish in his last 10 appearances. On Sunday, he took 7th place in The Open.
Remarkably, Schauffele and Scheffler were two of the 13 pros who qualified and competed in all 2024 majors. (You thought that number would be higher, right? Ditto.)
But of that group, who had the best points scored in the majors? Bunkered's Michael McEwan created this handy chart to do the dirty work for us.
Schauffele, Scheffler, Collin Morikawa and Shane Lowry are the only players under par, and Schauffele is the only player to finish under par in all majors. His total of 32 under par in four majors has won the tournament – although he has won 21 PGA tournaments under par. Schauffele was 15 best strokes than Scheffler, who was 17 under in four majors. Morikawa was 15 years under and Lowry was six years under.
Patrick Cantlay, who has yet to hold a major title, ended the year even higher in major golf, ranked fifth on the list.
Will Schauffele's second medal be enough to clinch the PGA Tour Player of the Year honor from Scheffler later this year? We may have to see how the FedEx Cup Playoffs shake out first.
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