Scottie Scheffler has won 4 major championships: the 2022 Masters, the 2024 Masters, the 2025 PGA Championship, and the 2025 Open Championship. He’s still chasing the U.S. Open, the one leg missing from the career Grand Slam. A win there would make him the seventh golfer ever to complete it.
I was on the range at my home course the Sunday Scheffler closed out the 2025 Open Championship, splitting my attention between a bucket of 7-irons and his back nine on my phone. My playing partner that day, a 14-handicap who only tunes into golf during majors, asked me the same question half of Google was typing that week: how many majors does this guy actually have now? I’m a 9-handicap who’s followed Scheffler since his Korn Ferry days, and I still had to count it out loud before I answered him. Here’s the full list, the one major that’s still missing, and why the 2026 season made that gap a lot more interesting.
Scottie Scheffler’s 4 Major Wins, In Order
Scheffler’s first major came in 2022, and the next three arrived in a tight run between 2024 and 2025. That pacing isn’t random. Three of his four majors happened after he brought in putting coach Phil Kenyon in late 2023, which fixed the one real hole in his game.
| Year | Major | Course | Score | Margin | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Masters Tournament | Augusta National | 278 (-10) | 3 strokes | Rory McIlroy |
| 2024 | Masters Tournament | Augusta National | 277 (-11) | 4 strokes | Ludvig Åberg |
| 2025 | PGA Championship | Quail Hollow Club | 273 (-11) | 5 strokes | Bryson DeChambeau, Harris English, Davis Riley |
| 2025 | The Open Championship | Royal Portrush | 267 (-17) | 4 strokes | Harris English |
2022 Masters
This was Scheffler’s breakout major, and it landed in the middle of the hottest six-tournament run anyone had put together since Arnold Palmer in 1960. He’d already won the WM Phoenix Open, the Arnold Palmer Invitational, and the WGC-Match Play that same spring. At Augusta, he held off Rory McIlroy by three shots for his first green jacket. He was 25 years old.
2024 Masters
Two years later he did it again, this time by four shots over Ludvig Åberg. That made him the fourth-youngest player ever with two green jackets, and it came one week before he added a fourth PGA Tour win at the RBC Heritage. His putting had gone from a real weakness (162nd on tour in 2023) to a genuine strength, and the mallet putter switch he made that March deserves a lot of the credit.
2025 PGA Championship
Quail Hollow finally gave Scheffler his first Wanamaker Trophy. He shot 11-under and won by five, the largest PGA Championship margin since Rory McIlroy’s eight-shot win in 2012. This was major number three, and it made him the first golfer since Seve Ballesteros to win his first three majors by three shots or more.
I’m a 9-handicap, and on a great day I might beat my own personal best by four or five shots for eighteen holes. Scheffler shot eleven strokes under a major championship course across four rounds and still had shots to spare over the best field in golf. That’s the actual gap between “good golfer” and generational.
2025 Open Championship
A month later at Royal Portrush, Scheffler won his first Claret Jug by four shots over Harris English, closing at 17-under. That completed the third leg of the career Grand Slam and left exactly one trophy on the table. He also became the first golfer since John Henry Taylor in 1909 to win his first four majors by three strokes or more, which says a lot about how little drama his major wins usually have.
The Major He Hasn’t Won (And He’s Come Close Plenty)
Here’s my honest take: if you’d told me in 2022 that Scheffler would still be without a U.S. Open by his 30th birthday, I’d have guessed injury or a bad putting stretch. It’s neither. He’s just run into a wall of great players having their career weeks at exactly the wrong time for him.
His U.S. Open record isn’t thin. It’s genuinely good, just not good enough to close.
- 2022 (The Country Club): Runner-up, one shot behind Matt Fitzpatrick
- 2023 (Los Angeles CC): Third
- 2024 (Pinehurst No. 2): T41, his worst major finish since turning pro
- 2025 (Oakmont): T7, five strokes back of J.J. Spaun
- 2026 (Shinnecock Hills): T4 at even par, in the final pairing with eventual champion Wyndham Clark on his 30th birthday
I won’t pretend there’s a tidy explanation for why this specific major has given him trouble. He hasn’t been injured for it, hasn’t had a bad year exclusively at this event, and hasn’t run into a course that clearly doesn’t suit him. Sometimes the best player alive just runs into someone else’s career week, four times running.
Here’s why that gap matters more than most golf trivia. Only six men have ever completed the career Grand Slam: Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, and, as of 2025, Rory McIlroy. If Scheffler wins a U.S. Open, he joins that group as the seventh name on the list. We broke down exactly how that chase would play out in our 2026 U.S. Open preview before Shinnecock even started.
Scheffler’s Full Major Championship Record
| Major | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top 10 | Events Played |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masters Tournament | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 |
| PGA Championship | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 |
| U.S. Open | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| The Open Championship | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Total | 4 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 26 |
Four wins and three runner-up finishes across the same 26 starts isn’t just a good record. It’s the kind of ratio that usually points to a player who’s about to double his total, not one who’s plateauing.
How Close Did He Come to a Fifth Major in 2026?
This is the part most pages about Scheffler’s majors skip entirely, because they went live before this season played out. Through all four 2026 majors, Scheffler didn’t add a fifth, but he also never finished worse than 14th.
- Masters: Solo second, one stroke behind Rory McIlroy, after playing his final two rounds bogey-free
- PGA Championship: T14 at Aronimink, won by Aaron Rai
- U.S. Open: T4 at Shinnecock Hills
- The Open Championship: T4 at Royal Birkdale, one missed birdie putt on the 72nd hole away from a playoff
Four majors, four top-14 finishes, zero wins. I don’t think enough people talk about a stat line like that. It’s either the most frustrating season of Scheffler’s career or proof that his floor sits higher than almost anyone else’s ceiling, and honestly, it’s both.
Frequently Asked Questions
Has any golfer won all four majors in a year?
No male golfer has ever won the Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and Open Championship in the same calendar year. The closest anyone has come is Tiger Woods, who held all four trophies at once across 2000 and 2001. Golf fans call that stretch the “Tiger Slam,” but it wasn’t a true calendar Grand Slam since the wins spanned two different years.
Has Tiger Woods ever shot a 59?
Not in an official PGA Tour round. His lowest competitive score is 61, a number he’s posted four separate times. Woods has said he carded a 59 once, in a friendly practice round against Mark O’Meara at his home course in 1997, but that round never counted toward any tour record.
Does Scottie Scheffler live in a mansion?
He owns a home in Dallas, and real-estate outlets put it at roughly 5,000 square feet. He picked it up for about $2.1 million in 2020, not long after he got married. Reporters have called it a “modest mansion,” which tracks for a guy who says his faith and family come before golf.
What golfer is a billionaire?
Tiger Woods. Forbes confirmed his billionaire status in 2022, making him only the second active athlete at the time to hit that number, right after LeBron James. Most of that fortune comes from endorsements rather than tournament winnings.
The Bottom Line
Four majors by 29, three of them won by at least four strokes, and a U.S. Open drought that’s starting to look like the last line on an otherwise finished résumé. That’s where Scheffler stands today. Whether he ever closes that gap is a real question, not a formality, because Shinnecock proved even the best player alive can run into someone else’s hot putter. For the full arc of how he got here, Scottie Scheffler’s career profile covers the rest of it.